Inside the Igloo by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review tells the story of Mellon (Civic) Arena – and some of its secrets – as Pittsburghs favorite meeting place for sport, music and entertainment.

“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."

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.

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.

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.

Pittsburgh has been called Hell with the Lid On and Hell with the Lid Off. It was a city rich in contrasts and rich in its history. And amid the swirling currents that made up the vibrant flow of the city's life, navigated the Jews, an immigrant group that began settling in the region in the 1840s.

There is a place where two rivers meet and create a third -- known to the Seneca Indians as Oyo - The Beautiful River. The Seneca knew this place as Da-ya-o'-geh, or The low place where the Beautiful River meets. Today we know Dayaogeh as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the location of industry and finance, where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers become the Ohio River.

Man’s Quest to Solve a Mystery Results in a Manuscript Published Seventeen Years after His Death, But Not an End to the Mystery Itself… Conclusions point to a deception intended for the greater good in the true story of the B-25 that crash-landed and then disappeared in the Monongahela River on January 31, 1956

This book tells an epic story. The Point of Pittsburgh is about how one city was the key to the industrial development that made the United States a world power and how the struggle of the region's people for democratic rights and a decent standard of living was central to the creation of the American middle class.

This book tells an epic story. The Point of Pittsburgh is about how one city was the key to the industrial development that made the United States a world power and how the struggle of the region's people for democratic rights and a decent standard of living was central to the creation of the American middle class.