HUMOR / INSPIRATIONAL
Basic Baltimorese II
Gordon Beard
staple bound
32 pages
096034361X
3.95

If one Baltimorese is good, two is even better. This go-round, Mike Ricigliano provides the artwork for Mr. Beard's rhyming alphabet. Open to any page for a guaranteed giggle.


Basic Balimorese III
Gordon Beard
staple bound
unpaged
0-9603436-2-8
3.95

Celebrate the special regional dialect of "Balamer, Murlin" with this funny alphabet. Commit a few key words to memory and you might even "blend".


How to Speak Southern
Steve Mitchell
Cartoons by Scrawls
trade paper
9780553275193
64 pages
6.99

“This book is dedicated to all Yankees in the hope that it will teach them how to talk right.”


The Joys of Getting Older
Thomas & Cindy Senior
trade paper
9780740708862
120 pages
4.99

It’s hard to describe this book without spoiling the laugh. Suffice it to say when the authors tried to enumerate the joys of the twilight years, they came up “blank.”


Motherhood Is a Contact Sport
Susan Reimer
trade paper
208 pages
096498196-3
11.95

The author made the long jump from sportswriter to family life columnist in the pages of the Baltimore Sun and this anthology is touching and funny.


My Year as Baltimore’s Best Hon
Charlene E. Osborne
hardcover
9780984540402
140 pages
48.00

This first of its kind documentary is an exuberant and colorful journey by that embodiment of Baltimore’s term of endearment- the Best Hon. Join Blaze Char as she takes us into her world of festivals, charity events and plain ole Hon fun.


Raising Kane
Gregory Kane
trade paper
294 pages
1-893116-23-9
12.95

This collection of the Baltimore Sun columns of the Pulitzer-nominated opinion columnist features thought-provoking and controversial essays.


Sea Drums and Other Poems
Bert J. Hubinger
trade paper
24 pages
1885457502
9.95

Instead of your usual choice in reading, why not delve into a wonderful poetry collection instead? Poems such as "Crab Bites" evoke the Chesapeake, but the scope of this collection is wide-ranging.


SWAG
Southern Women Aging Gracefully

Melinda Rainey Thompson
trade paper
9780895873293
310 pages
14.95

Ranging from swimsuit shopping to squirrel battling, from magnolia theft to cemetery etiquette, these delightful essays reflect the everyday peculiarities of life in the South.


Treasury of True Ghostly Humor
L.B. Taylor
trade paper
124 pages
1928966047
11.95

Can ghosts be funny? As the Ghost Writer says, judge for yourself with over 100 true anecdotes.