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Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country. A. Aubrey Bodine and Jennifer B. Bodine, Editor. Aubrey Bodine’s photographs chronicled nearly every aspect of Maryland life on pages of the Baltimore Sun from 1924 to 1970. 286 digitally restored pictures are divided into five distinct areas: Baltimore and surrounds, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Southern Maryland and Annapolis, and Western Maryland. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) •283 b/wphotos •168pp. •978-0-87033-562-4•HC•$29.95 / £28.99 / 45.00 CAD Bodine’s City: The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine. Jennifer B. Bodine. A. Aubrey Bodine was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature photographer for 43 years. These 154 images transcend their geographical bounds in Baltimore as Bodine’s subject matter varied wildly. He photographed people, animals, buildings, harsh weather conditions, textures, geometric patterns, and cityscapes. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 154 b/w photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3844-1 • HC • $39.99 / £38.99 / 59.99 CAD In Search of Maryland Ghosts: Montgomery County. Karen Yaffe Lottes & Dorothy Pugh. Explore the haunted regions of Montgomery County, Maryland, and its surrounding area. Learn about the Headless Horseman that continues to terrorize visitors to the old railroad bridge; the poltergeist haunting the Madison House; the Tommy- knocker at the Maryland Mine; and the farmer searching for his buried treasure. Are you brave enough to take this haunted journey back in time? • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 58 photos & 8 maps • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-4010-9 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Maryland Lost and Found . . . Again. Eugene L. Meyer. This tour across the Free State makes comment on the American landscape. Part love letter, part oral history, and part obituary, the book explores the people and places where life has made special contributions to America. From cities, waterways, farmland, and trans- portation routes come true stories of the state’s unique development. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 54 b/w photos • 296 pp. • 978-0-87033-548-8 • PB • $15.95 / £15.99 / 24.95 CAD Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution. M. Christopher New. Many Marylanders who would not engage in the movement for independence lost their homes and jobs, and some were banished to Nova Scotia. Some were ill-used by British commanders to fight England’s enemy, Spain, in Florida. This tragic chapter of American history should not be forgotten. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 10 illus., 4 maps • 210 pp. • 978-0-87033-495-5 • HC • $26.95 / £25.99 / 41.95 CAD Maryland Folklore. George G. Carey. Tall tales, legends, folk heroes, and local characters relate traditions and history that often are taken for granted. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 6 b/w photos, 1 map • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643- 3594-5 • PB • $12.99 / £12.99 / 19.99 CAD Baltimore Harbor Haunts: True Ghost Stories. Melissa Rowell & Amy Lynwander. Exposes 37 hauntings, from the ghost of a drowned boy in Canton to the famous ghosts of Fort McHenry. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •68b/w photos•160pp. •978-0-7643-2304-1•PB•$14.95 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Spooky Creepy Baltimore County. D. P. Roseberry. Roseberry. Come closer to the flames as you read the contemporary haunts of Baltimore County, Maryland. Hear demons in an attic at a Harford Road residence, see shadow people in Perry Hall, and meet a murderous ghost in Middle River. These new and scary stories will have you reading into the night—or at least until the fire dies! • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •14b/wphotos •160pp. •978-0-7643- 3254-8 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Maryland’s Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. John R. Wennersten. The region has been geo- graphically isolated and socially unique in its language and customs in agriculture, seafaring, and race. Before accelerating change affects its transformation to modern standards, this book reflects the Eastern Shore’s unusual socio-cultural history through absorbing narrative and examples of its probable vanishing lifestyle. • 6"x9" (152 x 228mm) •21 b/wphotos, 1map•310 pp. •978-0-87033- 428-3 • HC • $23.95 / £22.99 / 36.95 CAD Down on the Shore. Adele V. Holden. A true story that reveals a lifestyle among local blacks who meted out life in a society rigidly enforced by Shore whites; a way of life both humane and cruel. It recalls battles to fulfill goals instilled by parents who saw education as their children’s only chance in a segregated country. Conquering adver- sity, the poet/author chose a life devoted to teaching and equality. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •20b/wphotos •248pp. • 978-0-87033-547-1 • PB • $15.95 / £15.99 / 24.95 CAD Memory of a Murder. Earl Staggs. A killer is leaving a trail of terror and death from Baltimore to Ocean City, and only one man can stop him. The man develops psychic powers that allow him to see things most people can’t. Twelve years later, his special sight opens the doorway to a man who begs for help: “I think I killed someone.“ • 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (139 x 215 mm) • • 272 pp. • 978-0-87033- 604-1 • PB • $13.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Briar Patch: The Murder that Would Not Die. Donald Grady Shomette. The murder of two teenage girls remained unsolved with one false lead after another . . . until a surprising phone call was received more than 40 years later. Would it put an end to the crime dubbed “The Murder That Would Not Die”? Inspired by the 1955 Northwest Branch Park murder case in a peaceful Mary- land suburb of Washington, DC. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 288 pp. • 978-0-7643-3782-6 • HC • $24.99 / £23.99 / 36.99 CAD Ghosts of Maryland. Mike Ricksecker. Explore the supernatural history of Maryland through its countless ghost stories and legends. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 55 b/w images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3423-8 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Baltimore Graffiti: The Definitive Charm City Style Collection. Michael Sachse. This photo-documentary of Baltimore graffiti writers’ tags features the widest range of such work ever compiled. In one of the most staggering local graffiti compendiums available, photos from 2011 to 2014 highlight the myriad variations of tags 126 of the most active Baltimore graffiti artists have produced. • 12" x 12" (304 x 304 mm) • 4,000+ color images • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643- 5154-9 • HC • $45.00 / £42.99 / 68.00 CAD The Outlaw Gunner. Dr. Harry M. Walsh. The Outlaw Gunner is the colorful story of market gunning in both its legal and illegal phases, particularly as it was practiced in the great Chesapeake Bay, the Outer Banks, and the tidewater regions of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. In more than 150 of the most unusual and rare photographs from the author’s collection (many of them now from the original source imagery), the men with their guns, boats, and traps are shown in action. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 183 color and b/w images • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-6061-9 • HC • $34.99 / £33.99 / 51.99 CAD The Patapsco: Baltimore’s River of History, Second Edition. Paul J. Travers. Long the main resource on this key American river, this book’s expanded second edition includes dozens of new photos and maps, updates, and six new chapters recording the twenty-first century’s most recent developments on the Patapsco River. • 6"x9" (152 x 228 mm) • 42 photos, illustrations, and maps • 272 pp. • 978-0-87033-644-7 • HC • $29.99 / £28.99 / 45.00 CAD Maryland: Arts & Crafts Maryland: Stories, Lore & History Annapolis Vignettes. Ginger Doyel. Annapolis— capital of Maryland and home of the US Naval Academy— offers an architectural feast. Shows buildings representing every period in historical perspective and adds colorful facts to enhance appreciation of them. • 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (139 x 215 mm) • 113 b/w photos, 28 illustrations • 316 pp. • 978-0-87033-571-6 • PB • $24.95 / £23.99 / 36.95 CAD A Guide to Baltimore Architecture. 3rd Edition. John Dorsey & James D. Dilts. Grouped by neighborhood, more than two hundred notable Baltimore buildings are pictured and described with commentary on their history and style. Photographs, maps, and tours, as well as biographies of Baltimore architects. • 4 1/2" x 9" (114 x 228 mm) • 273 b/w photos &30maps • 472 pp. • 978-0-87033-477-1 • PB • $24.95 / £23.99 / 36.95 CAD Baltimore’s Cast-Iron Buildings & Architectural Ironwork. James D. Dilts & Catharine F. Black, editors. This celebration of a unique aspect of Baltimore’s architectural and industrial history examines cast-iron buildings, showing how the material was fabricated and the buildings erected. Heavily illustrated, it includes ironwork catalogs from the mid-1800s. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 4 color & 69 b/w photos/maps • 116 pp. •978-0-87033-427-6•PB•$29.95 / £28.99 / 45.00CAD Maryland: Architecture MARYLAND Eastern Shore Perspectives. Antelo Devereux Jr. More than 130 color images propel the read- er on a photographic journey along the coast: experience the sunrise along the water, wildlife in marshes where boats appear to be sitting on the grasses, picturesque colonial towns, fishing villages where harbors churn with crab boats, and beyond. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 141 color photos • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-4446-6 • PB • $9.99 / £9.99 / 14.99 CAD St. Michaels, Oxford, and the Talbot County Bayside. James Tigner. Tour Maryland’s Talbot County via more than 255 vintage postcards. Stroll along Morris Street in Oxford and see Broad Creek as it used to be, or ride the ferry to St. Michaels. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 68 color & 215 b/w illustrations • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2708-7 • HC • $39.95 / £38.99 / 59.95 CAD 40 |