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Alle-Kiski Sports History: A Century of Sports in the AK Valley (Softcover)
How did forty-seven , mostly gritty, blue-collar towns on the edges of four counties outside of Pittsburgh, produce such an unparalleled wealth of sports accomplishments? Sports journalist George Guido attempts to answer that question in his meticulous 300-plus-page compilation of stories, stats, and incredible photos that made the A-K Region world famous.
Suggested Retail Price $19.95
Easy Recipes for Thrifty Cooking
In a world where "quick and easy" has come to mean processed, pre-packaged and often expensive, many of us are looking to go back to the basics for better nutrition and economy. With chapters dedicated to leftovers, soups & casseroles you will be sure to learn that the key to more frugal and nutritious meals is not magical recipes, but rather the application of a little time and planning. Recipes like Sausage & Lentil Soup, Reuben Casserole and Skillet Chili are wallet friendly...
Suggested Retail Price $14.95
Ramdas The One Eyed Turtle (Hardcover)
Ramdas is a spotted turtle without any spots and he lost one eye, but that doesn t matter. His life is perfect; he has his faith, two wonderful friends (a bullfrog and a crane) and Vasuki, his beautiful wife. He is also wise, loving and forgiving. When he prays to the voice from nowhere and everywhere, he learns that Fear is darkness. Faith is light. Anger is weakness. Love is might. When Ramdas and Vasuki are captured and tossed into the soup kettle, he believes in miracles.
Suggested Retail Price $16.95
The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty first Century (Softcover)
“The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty first Century,” describes what makes the city unique, loveable and occasionally frustrating. Newsweek columnist Howard Fineman calls it, “a great conversation on a Pittsburgh tavern barstool.” Actor and Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton says, "This guy gets it."
Suggested Retail Price $16.95
Beyond the Goalpost (Softcover)
Andy has always been attracted to athletic challenge, adventure and possibly even danger. In this book Andy tries to understand what it was that drove him as a young child, and to recall who were his mentors and especially ask himself why he was so driven to pursue what many would consider dangerous sporting activities for example: professional football, mountain climbing, wilderness canoeing, cave exploring, and scuba diving.
Suggested Retail Price $20.00
Right Beside the River [DVD]
In this lively and amusing documentary, producer Rick Sebak and his team travel from Moundsville, West Virginia (home of the Grave Creek Mound and the Official Marx Toy Museum) to Vandergrift, Pennsylvania (with its curved streets and great used bookstore) to Fredericktown (where the old ferry boat still crosses the Monongahela.) You'll learn about archeologists in Verona, an old family farmhouse beside the Ohio river, a hundred year old hot dog place in Brownsville, and several spots in between...
Suggested Retail Price $19.95
Rich Poor Man's Guide Pittsburgh: Map and Guide Gift Set
This perfect gift for Pittsburgh lovers! Know Where to Go's extensive Rich/Poor Man's Guide Pittsburgh paired with the One and Only Pittsburgh Walking Map and Guide, gold ribboned gift package with to/from tag.
Suggested Retail Price $18.75
Rich Poor Man's Guide to Pittsburgh (Softcover)
A best-selling restaurant and sightseeing guide with dining reviews, fun places, things to do in Pittsburgh and nearby neighborhoods. It's the definitive resource for residents, visitors and students. Join the thousands who have discovered Pittsburgh's hidden secrets places to go, where to eat, shopping, night life, romantic and unusual things to do.
Suggested Retail Price $15.95
The One and Only Pittsburgh Walking Map and Guide
Anyone navigating the streets of Pittsburgh should not be without this unique 4 color map and mini guide to buildings and attractions in key city areas. 46 points of interest, capsule restaurant reviews, riverfront attractions Unique design hailed as one of best in U.S.!  Especially designed for convention attendees, visitors and newcomers to easily find their way around the city
Suggested Retail Price $3.95
2010 Pittsburgh Events Calendar
Wonderful for anyone who loves Pittsburgh! Where to go, what to do, and a special supplement with fascinating facts about the neighborhoods that make the city of Pittsburgh unique.
Suggested Retail Price $16.95
Three Rivers that Spawned the City of Champions (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
Greg Spalding’s hardback revision of "THREE RIVERS THAT SPAWNED THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS" includes 100 more photos as well as a lot more statistics, opinions and insights. Many of the photos stand as very unique, such as Hall of Fame parade photos of Mike Webster and Terry Bradshaw, Hall of Fame induction photos of Lynn Swann and John Stallworth, Hall of Fame busts of Franco Harris, Terry Bradshaw and Joe Greene; photos of the Hall of Fame plaques of Willie Stargell and Roberto Clem...
Suggested Retail Price $39.95
Never Give Up (Hardcover)
James Harrison has overcome daunting odds and a tortured path to stardom in a miraculous rise from an undrafted free agent to the 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year who set the Super Bowl record for the longest play ever. Cut four times by NFL teams, Harrison could have thrown in the towel many times on his rocky road to stardom and self acceptance. If he wasn’t a man of such raw power, fiery emotion and sheer will, he could not have risen above personal setbacks and repeated snubs to b...
Suggested Retail Price $25.95
Living to Cook: Favorite Recipes of Jane Citron (Hardcover)
For years, students and readers asked Jane Citron to publish a book of her recipes. But it wasn't until the last few years of her life that she finally collected her favorites recipes together. Although she never saw this book completed, Jane's voice is prevalent throughout, and her former fans and everyone who lives and loves to cook will feel right at home in these pages.
Suggested Retail Price $26.95
Making the Connections: A Collection of Community Stories from Pittsburgh’s 250th Anniversary (Softcover)
Making the Connections amplifies the voices of grassroots innovators who led 100 diverse and vibrant community-based projects, under the banner of Community Connections, at Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary in 2008. As part of the year-long celebration, civic leaders and citizen volunteers constructed public art icons, cut environmental pathways, recorded regional lore, and heightened social responsibility.
Suggested Retail Price $25.00
by-Line: Barbara Cloud (Softcover)
On her way to becoming an actress, Barbara Cloud found her calling as a journalist. During a long and impressive career with Pittsburgh's major newspapers she gave us interviews with the famous and not-so-famous, behind-the-scenes glimpses of the fashion world, and deeply personal essays about everyday life. Each of the articles in this thoughtful compilation exemplifies the kind of candid and insightful writing that, for many of her readers, made Barbara Cloud a household name.
Suggested Retail Price $16.95
Houses Around Here [DVD]
 In HOUSES AROUND HERE, you'll see ordinary houses as well as to extraordinary dwellings. You'll travel up to Chatham Village on Mount Washington, check out some cool old castles in Aspinwall, and find out about the history of Swift Homes that were so successful in the 1950s. You'll look at some old company towns, including Marianna, PA. Near Prosperity, and stop in at Moon Lorn, an odd sort of country cottage built by the artist Malcolm Parcell, and you'll vis...
Suggested Retail Price $19.95
Warhol-o-rama (Softcover)
Published on the occasion of Andy Warhol’s 80th birthday, Warhol-o-rama surveys the extraordinary life and robust afterlife of Andy Warhol (1928- 1987). In this rollicking poetic sequence Peter Oresick reads Warhol through the eyes and words of others from critics to Catholics to Carpatho-Rusyns. The result is an unorthodox and entertaining serial portrait of an American artist whose 15 minutes of fame seem to have no end in sight.
Suggested Retail Price $16.95
Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale (Softcover)
Chuck Kinder's long-awaited and critically acclaimed magnum opus chronicles the misadventures of best friends Ralph Crawford and Jim Stark, two of the most promising writers of their day, and the wives with whom they have spent the best years of their lives raising bad judgment to an art. Kinder captures the late 60's and early 70's in all their splendor and as pointed out in The New York Times Book Review, "It is undoubtedly possible to read this book without knowing that Kinder was a clos...
Suggested Retail Price $19.95
Talking Steel Towns: The Men and Women of America's Steel Valley (Softcover)
Talking Steel Towns captures the voices of the steel-driving men who built the ships and tanks for two World Wars as well as the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the United Nations and the Twin Towers—and the voices of the Steel Valley women who fought their own battles against poverty and prejudice in the harsh world of the blast furnace.
Suggested Retail Price $16.95
Keeping The Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
"This is a great book and a must-read for anyone who wants tounderstand the young people who are now or will soon join the workforce. It'sone of the most useful value-added books about the Millennial generation." -Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Southern California,and author of On Becoming a Leader"Are you confused trying to understand the younger generation? Keeping the Millennials explores this fascinating generation raised with technology an...
Suggested Retail Price $24.95
The Weight of the World: Poems of Wisdom, Dreams & Reality (Softcover)
This book talks about the troubles that a lot of people are going through and the problems that they are facing. "The Weight of the World" is on their backs and must be lifted. In order to erase these problems, they must be presented and recognized. 
Suggested Retail Price $12.99
Leather and Blood: Pittsburgh The Mecca of Boxing Champions (Softcover)
Did you know that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the Mecca of Boxing Champions? No less than twelve men have been crowned “World Champion” who were weaned on the streets of Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is a tough town where men’s wills are forged from the heat of the blast furnace and from the depths of the coal mines. Pittsburgh is a town that honors, admires and bestows godlike status to her sports heroes.
Suggested Retail Price $14.95
SIX TIMES SUPER: The Official Book of the Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers (Hardcover)
This official Super Bowl book of the Pittsburgh Steelers will take you deep inside a remarkable season that saw the Steelers overcome one of the most difficult schedules in NFL history to achieve greatness once again.    
Suggested Retail Price $29.95
SIX TIMES SUPER: The Official Book of the Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers (Softcover)
This official Super Bowl book of the Pittsburgh Steelers will take you deep inside a remarkable season that saw the Steelers overcome one of the most difficult schedules in NFL history to achieve greatness once again.  
Suggested Retail Price $19.95
Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania (Softcover)
Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania is a crowd-sourced book of photographs documenting and celebrating the visual landscape of the region through its signs, past and present.
Suggested Retail Price $29.95
We All We Got: Pitt Basketball in the Golden Era (Softcover)
We All We Got is the story of the beginning of the Golden Era of Pitt basketball. Written from a fan’s perspective based on the author’s internet posts, it describes how teamwork, leadership, passion and commitment to defense transformed a college basketball program into a national power. And it is the story of one family’s experience watching it happen.
Suggested Retail Price $18.95
 
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