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MARYLAND / DELAWARE HISTORY
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| Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay Donald G. Shomette hardcover 390 pages 0-87033-480-8 29.95 This trilogy of underwater archaeology tales includes the little known story of how the largest ship graveyard in the U.S. (and perhaps the world) came to lie beneath Mallows Bay off the Potomac. |
 
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| Glass House of Dreams Peggy Stansbury Photography by David Simpson hardcover 9780982870402 104 pages 45.00 Evocative photos celebrate the second oldest conservatory in the U.S.- Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park. |
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| The Great Port of Baltimore Helen Delich Bentley & F. Key Kidder trade paper 64 pages 9781424304356 30.00 Wonderful color photos and archival shots of the “Port that built a city and a state” enhance a story that only the acknowledged “Godmother of the Port of Baltimore,” author Bentley, could tell. |
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| Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Catherine Clinton trade paper 9780316155946 286 pages 14.99 This biography. praised for its impeccable research and compelling narrative, reveals the Underground Railroad’s Harriet Tubman as a singular and complex character. |
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| Harvesting the Chesapeake 2nd ed Larry S. Chowning trade paper 9780870336348 304 pages 29.99 This revised and expanded edition records the pictures, recollections and homespun tales of the hardy men and women who have lived and worked along the shores of the nation's largest estuary. |
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| Having My Say: Conversations With Chesapeake Bay Waterman Wylie “Gator” Abbott A.M. Foley trade paper 256 pages 096729472X 18.95 This entertaining biography takes the reader inside the life of Wylie Abbott, locally-renowned hunter, guide, muskrat skinner and Eastern Shore waterman. |
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| I’ll Never Forget It Marvin Mandel with Jeremy Lott hardcover 9780975575635 148 pages 19.95 In this frank memoir, sometimes controversial Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel tells about his upbringing and political career and philosophy. Color and b & w photos. |
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| In Days Gone By and Other Tales from Delmarva Hal Roth trade paper 224 pages 0964769476 12.95 We consider Mr. Roth the laureate of the peninsula and his latest offering features 27 short stories about Delmarva's people, oral history and folklore. It is illustrated with photographs, paintings and drawings. |
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| In the Shadows of the Flames: Baltimore’s 1968 April Riots Joseph B. Ross, Jr. trade paper 9780988660700 364 pages 19.95 The 1968 Baltimore riots shaped the future of community policing as well as the actions of emergency response units. This impressively-researched history documents those difficult days, often from eye witness accounts. |
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| An Island Out of Time Tom Horton trade paper 336 pages 9780393331462 15.95 Here is a new trade edition of a classic of Chesapeake Bay literature about Smith Island. In a new afterword for this edition, the author brings the story up to the present. |
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| It Happened in Maryland Judy Colbert trade paper 9780762769704 160 pages 14.95 Topics as diverse as the Great Baltimore Fire, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the snakehead fish enliven this fun collection about things that have shaped the Old Line State. |
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| John Smith in the Chesapeake Edward Wright Haile spiral bound 9780966471236 96 pages 25.00 This wonderful combination of the historic and the practical offers scholarly coverage of the travels of Captain Smith along with maps that modern day paddlers and boaters can use, on laminated pages in a convenient spiral bound format. |
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| The Last Waterman Glenn Lawson trade paper 210 pages 0-9620439-0-7 12.95 This regional classic recounts the true story of a Chesapeake waterman, struggling to keep a way of life his family had passed on for eleven generations. |
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| Lilly Stone Judith Welles Trade paper 9780615669830 126 pages 15.00 This is a story of country manners near the Nation’s Capital in the 1800s, a family’s history, and a daring woman’s life and her passion for preserving history. Lilly Stone was born during the Civil War and she died during the Cold War. |
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| Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland Donald G. Shomette hardcover 370 pages 0-87033-527-8 36.95 This book details the fate of ten towns, chosen as a representative sampling of the many early settlements that failed to thrive. |
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| Maryland Folklore George G. Carey trade paper 176 pages 9780764335945 12.99 This enjoyable survey of folklore and folklife in Maryland is a fascinating guide to the traditions that exist right under people's noses- if they take the time to look. |
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