HUMOR / INSPIRATIONAL
Basic Baltimorese
Gordon Beard
staple bound
32 pages
0960343601
3.95

Out of print for many years, this fun alphabet helps visitors to Charm City scope out the local parlance. Illustrations by Armand Beard help capture the colorful speech patterns of "Balamer, Murlin". The paraphrase the arthur, it's x-lint!


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".


Blessings We Celebrate
Junior League of Hampton Roads
hardcover
116 pages
9781577363736
27.95
 
This is an inspiring collection of blessings, prayers, table graces and poems with lovely color illustrations.


Historic Reston: The First 350 Years
Hebron E. Adams
staple bound
41 pages
0-9632919-0-4
6.95

Get it?


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.


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.