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Rafael Alvarez
Orlo and Leini
Paperback/1999
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On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
H. L. Mencken
Paperback/1999
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The entire history of the twentieth century can be traced through the clandestine affair of the junkman Orlo and his Greek lover Leini in Orlo and Leini.
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This collection of 70 political pieces, drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun during the twenties and thirties, shows the "Sage of Baltimore" at his satirical best.
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The Hearse Case Scenario
Tim Cockey
Hardcover/2003
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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
Michael Olesker
Paperback/2000 |
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This third novel starring hapless Baltimore undertaker Hitchcock Sewell puts Hitch in the middle of a puzzle that gets weirder by the minute. His old friend Lucy has shot her lover, sleazy nightclub owner Shrimp Martin, and disappeared.
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In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of the American melting pot, specifically Baltimore's, in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic essence.
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Chadwick and the Garplegrungen
Priscilla Cummings
Paperback/2003 |
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Great Short Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe
Paperback/2000 |
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A crab leaves his home at the National Aquarium in Baltimore to help clean up the pollution in the Chesapeake Bay that is threatening the lives of his animal friends.
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A collection of poems and shorts stories, from the best of his comic and satiric works to the best of his Gothic works.
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The Baker
Paul Hond
Paperback/1998
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The Corner : A Year in the Life of an Inner-City
David Simon
Paperback/ 1998 |
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The son of prosperous Jewish shopkeepers in Baltimore, Micky Lerner first makes a try at boxing then he settles down to run a bakery.
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This is a powerful book and a window on aspects of America most people would rather ignore. To his great credit, author David Simon also wrote Homicide, which formed the basis for the popular television show.
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Hometown Boy
Elizabeth Howard
Paperback/April 1999 |
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Brother in the Bush : An African American's
Search for Self in East Africa
John Slaughter
Paperback/2005 |
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In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of the American melting pot, specifically Baltimore's in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic essence.
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Brother in the Bush is a memoir about what the experience of visiting Africa can mean for a twenty-first-century African- American. John Slaughter is a successful stockbroker in his thirties who decided to travel to Africa to broaden his horizons.
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Baltimore Blues
Laura Lippman
paperback/1999
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A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler
Paperback/1998
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Until her paper, the Baltimore Star, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a good reporter who knew her hometown intimately--from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill.
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In this, her fourteenth novel, and one of her most endearing, Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
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