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Established in 1951, Joseph Fox Bookshop is a general independent bookstore in the Rittenhouse Square area of downtown Philadelphia with a choice selection of literature, non-fiction, art, architecture, design, music, poetry and books for children. Our knowledgeable staff can help you find the right book for the right person and if we don’t have the book you need we are happy to take a special order – it will often arrive the next day. We look forward to seeing you in the store!

Last June customers waited patiently all day to meet David Sedaris. 

 

AUTHOR APPEARANCES 

Joseph Fox Bookshop participates in hundreds of off-site Author Events each year as the official bookseller for the Free Library of Philadelphia's Author Events program, as well as for author appearances at the National Constitution Center and numerous other venues. We also sponsor our own events in partnership with Friends Select School in their modern four hundred seat auditorium and provide booksellers for private events. Signed books may be reserved in advance and are often available after the appearances as well.

Featured authors at the Free Library this season include Tim O'Brian, Michael Lewis, Billy Collins, Peter Carey, Anchee Min, Isabel Allende, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Christopher Hitchens. Keep an eye on the calendar and sign up for our Author Events Newsletter.  

Barack Obama signing books at the Free Library of Philadelphia of Philadelphia in October 2006. Joseph Fox Bookshop was the bookseller for the event.

  

Photo Credit Kelly & Massa

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin signing books for the shop the day after the 40th anniversary of his historic walk.

 Of Special Interest - New Fiction

 

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Books for Children

 

Coming Soon

Appetite For America

Stephen Fried

The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation’s service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans.

Appetite for America will be released in March 2010; to pre-order, please click here. Watch our calendar for upcoming book events with Stephen Fried.

The Killing of Mindi Quintana

Jeffrey Cohen

Freddy Builder is certain he is meant for more. More than his life in corporate America bondage. More than selling china to bluebloods in Philadelphia’s landmark department store, Chanet’s. Meant for more, meant for better, and lacking only, only an occasion to rise to. And now that occasion is murder-of Mindi Quintana, an old college flame wanting simply to stay in his past.

Freddy’s crime is major news from the start. Mindi is the beautiful daughter of a renowned Philadelphia businessman whose dramatic fall a few years back captivated the city. Meanwhile, Freddy is writing the book about his relationship with Mindi everybody wants — a remorseless rewrite of her life, his own, and their miserably thin involvement. A new celebrity murderer is taking the stage — a jailhouse literary sensation.

Freddy’s defense attorney, Philip, watches in disgust as his client builds his fame with the bones of his victim. As a career public defender, Philip thought he’d seen evil in all its incarnations. But Freddy’s case is a turning point for him. To stop Freddy, and to vindicate Mindi, Philip will have to violate his oath, even break the law. And he’ll deliver a comeuppance to a killer with a book.

 The Killing of Mindi Quintana will be released in April 2010; to pre-order a copy, please click here.

 
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