It all started with a collection of disasters pulled right out of Pennsylvania’s sordid history. Author Jennifer Green then turned Acquisitions Editor for Brookline Books. By spring 2024, Green had acquired a lineup of local histories to spotlight the best our area has to offer such as The Killing Shore.
Come with us as we take a look back to a year of publishing with Brookline!
A Year’s Worth of Bookish Brookline
Charley
The True Story of the Youngest Soldier to Die in the American Civil War
Published July 2023, this is a short biography of Charley King, who enlisted aged just 12, and became the youngest soldier to die in the American Civil. Charley marched with Company F, tapping out the cadence and relaying orders as they fought in the ill-fated Peninsula Campaign, during Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the North.
A. Cook’s Perspective
A Fascinating Insight into 18th-century Recipes by Two Historic Cooks
Next, published back in September 2023, A. Cook’s Perspective fascinating insight into 18th-century cook Ann Cook’s vitriolic lambasting of a bestselling cookbook The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse. Historic cooks Clarissa and Deborah prepared a number of recipes, both from Glasse and from Cook, and commented on the results.
Dark History of Penn’s Woods
Unusual Deaths, Crimes, and Hauntings in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Perfect for the spooky season TBR pile, Dark History Vol. 1 is what started off the Brookline imprint, so its second volume holds a special place on our shelves, especially as spooky season is right around the corner.
The Bergdoll Boys
America’s Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers
Also published in October of last year, The Bergdoll Boys is a biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century.
Eluding capture for years with financial help from their wealthy German Mutter, the Bergdoll boys were entangled with kidnapping and murder, federal agents and bounty hunters, Nazis, and even Congressional investigators…
The Darby School of Art
A Forgotten Chapter in the History of American Impressionist and Modern Painting
It was the last book to publish in 2023, but the first full-length account of the Darby School of Art. This book overturns Philadelphia’s long-held unwarranted reputation and demonstrates that Philadelphia was a hub of avant-garde painting in the early twentieth century.
2024’s Page Turners
You love them, you’ve seen them all this year, these are the books published with Brookline that came out this year, starting in April with WWII hit The Killing Shore!
We then had two books come out in May that focused on the same area of New Jersey, just at different times with Perceptions of Battle: George Washington’s Victory at Monmouth and Fort Monmouth: The US Army’s House of Magic.
All Leading to September’s Big Hitter…
Our next book is going to be here sooner than you think! Playing with the Best, the memoir of two-sports championship winner Walter French, is now available everywhere!
