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Mark your calendar for the 14th annual Baltimore Book Festival on September 25-27, 2009. Read more...

In honor of the festival, try these recent novels and short stories featuring Baltimore:

All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers
"This duet of stories from one of the genre's more popular African American writers include Home Sweet Home (1996) and the new sequel, All My Tomorrows, which beautifully continues the story of the Lord family. Although Lydia Lord...is a successful chef in a trendy restaurant, she heads out on her own with gourmet plans [for a restaurant in Baltimore]. But a summer camp for disadvantaged children run by sexy former football star Kennedy Fletcher needs a chef, and Lydia is quick to oblige—with surprisingly romantic results." (from a review in our catalog)
Baltimore Noir edited by Laura Lippman
"A Baltimore resident for most of her life, Lippman presents "Baltimore Noir"--stories by David Simon, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Marcia Talley, Jim Fusilli, and many others." (catalog summary)
Sons of Liberty : a novel of the Civil War by Marie Jakober
In Baltimore, a city of divided loyalties, the Union's Provost Marshall risks the life of the woman he loves to uncover the activities of the Sons of Liberty, a Confederate group plotting to capture the city. (editor)
The Open Channel by Jill Morrow
In Angel Cafe Kat and Stephen open a trendy cafe in Federal Hill. In this captivating sequel their 13-year-old daughter, Julia "experiences overly realistic medieval dreams and visions. Now her parents, Kat and Stephen, must find out why Julia is the target for an ancient evil drawing her back to 14th-century England." (from catalog summary)

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