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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
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Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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The past comes back to haunt a high-profile defense attorney in the newest book in the Baltimore series from the New York Times bestselling author of Monster in the Closet. In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault-specializing in helping young people in trouble in an attempt to atone for those he couldn't save when he himself was younger. He plays the part of the bachelor well, but secretly holds a flame...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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Anna Mae was shunned by her family four years ago when she left her Amish community to marry a non-Amish man in Baltimore. She arrives back in Lancaster County for Christmas. Is it too late for a miracle? She's determined to follow God's will regardless of the outcome.
24) Life sentences
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English
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Author Cassandra Fellows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction. When Cassandra was a girl, growing up in a racially diverse neighborhood in Baltimore, her best friends were black. Another girl orbited their world--shy, quiet Calliope Jenkins--who, years later, would...
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English
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"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
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English
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"The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know--everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This...
27) After I'm gone
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English
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Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.
When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps.
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Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's most eligible undertaker, finds himself in over his head when he becomes obsessed with a mysterious, beautiful woman who shows up at the mortuary wanting to talk about her own funeral arrangements.
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Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life, but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell ...
30) Hush, hush
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Series
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English
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On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned to Baltimore...
31) Shift
Author
Series
Shade trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Logan returns as a ghost, complicating sixteen-year-old Aura's budding relationship with Zachary, especially when they discover that Logan might be able to become solid again.
32) Shade
Author
Series
Shade trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently haunts her.
33) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
Author
Series
Free men and dreamers volume 4
Publisher
Walnut Springs Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A gripping tale of sacrifice and patriotism set against the backdrop of the Battle of Baltimore and the events that led to the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Join the Pearsons and the Willows residents as America staggers from the defeat of its capital and then rallies around the flag.
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