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1862: The Union holds Baltimore, but this city, with its southern attitudes and divided sentiments, is a port of enormous potential value to the Confederate cause.
Defending Baltimore is a man disdainfully called the "Black German." Branden Rolfe, a European revolutionary, fled the oppression of his home in Austria and now serves freedom as the city's Union Provost Marshal. When Rolfe learns of the Sons of Liberty, a secret group of secessionists...
42) Backstabber
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He's suave, he's sexy, he's cool...and he's an undertaker!
Hitchcock Sewell is back in one of the funniest and most fast-paced novels yet in Tim Cockey's celebrated award-winning series. A man has been murdered in his kitchen. And the apparent killer wants Hitch to scoop up the body and take it away...before the police have arrived. Meanwhile, across town, Hitch smells a rat-maybe two-in the nursing home where an old friend of his has taken up residence.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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A girl grows into a sweet but headstrong young woman, somewhat uncomfortable in the "high society" trappings of her family's estate, but when the secret of her adoption is accidentally divulged, she sets out to discover who she is.
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A poignant, uplifting, heartbreaking love story from the beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author: "To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE).
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death....
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death....
45) You belong to me
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Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 1
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As she works with Baltimore homicide detective J.D. Fitzpatrick to catch a serial killer, medical examiner Dr. Lucy Trask tries keep him at arms length so that he never discovers the dark secret that links her to the killer.
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"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
47) Boomer1
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"Desperate and humiliated after a longtime girlfriend denies his marriage proposal, Mark Brumfeld posts a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market, which soon goes viral, but with unintended consequences"--
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IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Sixteen-year-old James "Hercules" Martino completes twelve tasks while spending two weeks in Baltimore with his Uncle Anthony, and gains insights into himself, his uncle, and his recently deceased father, a self-help author and daytime talk show host who was beloved by the public but a terrible father.
50) This way home
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
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Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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In The Tell-Tale Start, twins Edgar and Allan Poe foiled the nefarious Professor Perry, who wanted to use them in his deadly quantum entanglement experiment. In Once Upon a Midnight Eerie, they took on his equally evil mother and daughter. Now, in The Pet and the Pendulum, it's time for the real showdown, which takes place in an old mansion right outside Baltimore. As with the first two books, The Pet and the Pendulum is filled with codes, brain-teasers,...
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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 year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore...
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Agent John Adderley novels volume 1
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"After surviving a brutal attack and with a price on his head, undercover FBI Agent John Adderley investigates a high-profile cold case involving a young heiress. He is determined to solve this case while hiding-out and until he can testify against the drug cartel he infiltrated back in the States."--
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
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A plain and simple Christmas: 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. Naomi's gift: Part of a family-oriented Amish community, twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has given up her dreams of finding true love. But when a young...
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In three stories, women in three locations, Baltimore, Chicago, and San Francisco, find more than they expect when they are asked to play Mrs. Claus.
In the first story, Olivia Neuman had hoped the worst was behind her after she broke her ankle, lost her chance to be a Rockette, and had to come home to Baltimore to live in the same city as her ex, Bobby (a.k.a. "Booby"). Of course, that was before she saw her face plastered all over billboards for...
57) Call me Zelda
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"From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil, and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity. When Zelda is committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in 1932, vacillating between lucidity and madness in her...
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It's the beginning of the end for Netta, the self-proclaimed leader of the Pussy Pound, as she lay in a hospital bed, in a coma, fighting for her life. As her life flashes before her eyes, Netta comes face to face with her own bad karma as she tries to untangle herself from the tangled web she has woven, desperately trying to free herself from the streets once and for all.
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Gwyn Weaver is as resilient as anyone could be. Having survived an attempted murder, she has rebuilt her life and reclaimed her dignity and strength. She's always known about her feelings for defense attorney Thomas Thorne, but as her friend and a colleague there could be no chance of anything more... or could there? Thorne has known violence and pain all his life. He's overcome the hardships thanks to his own steel, and the love of his loyal friends....
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Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom"--the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance--as long as she stays away from...
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