Books

M.D. Johnson’s Midnight in Moscow

International intrigue with a local angle and author

Jane C. Elkin

Midnight in Moscow opens with a scene with immediate familiarity for local readers: a news story featuring a car set ablaze at a BWI parking lot. Then a young Russian American woman is found murdered along the C&O Canal. From there it’s a short hop to Annapolis and the main character, Emily Cowan, a sassy sleuth of a certain age who globetrots from western Maryland to Germany, Russia and the Near East.

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– by Jane C. Elkin – 11/29/12

Read Your Way onto the Water

SeaKayaker discovers the Patuxent Water Trail

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Autumn is forecast spectacular for the Thanksgiving weekend, opening one of the year’s last doors to get out into Chesapeake Country. One way to accept the invitation is to follow the December issue of SeaKayaker onto the treasure in our own backyard, the Patuxent Water Trail.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/22/12

Saveur’s A Bountiful Shore

Take inspiration from this beautifully photographed Virginia Shore dinner

Sandra Olivetti Martin

The best appetizer is a good story. With that philosophy of life, I’m drooling over Bernard L. Herman’s first-person story of his Chesapeake Thanksgiving feast in this month’s Saveur. A titled professor of American studies and folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Herman tells his story with the loving detail we tend to reserve for faraway times.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/15/12

Chesapeake Country Poets and Novelists

Washington Writers’ Publishing House wants to give you $1,000

Elisavietta Ritchie

Writers and poets of the greater Bay Weekly area, here is your chance to see your best work as a book. Storm Sandy pushed the venerable Washington Writers’ Publishing House annual deadline to December 1. Fiction writers and poets living within a 75-mile radius of the U.S. Capitol — in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia — thus gain an extra month to prepare manuscripts for entry in two annual book competitions.

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– by Elisavietta Ritchie – 11/8/12

Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House

Allan Lichtman has unlocked the secret to counting the vote

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Can’t stand to wait another week to know who’s going to be president? Ask Allan Lichtman. “My 13 questions will tell you who will claim the popular vote,” says the American University political professor, a Marylander who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. His keys have called it right in every election since the middle of the 19th century, when the popular vote was first counted.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/1/12

The Reader: 2012 General Election Voters’ Guide

by League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County

Ann H. Wolfe

The Voter’s Guide is a superb primer to the Maryland and Anne Arundel County ballot questions on which we will vote November 6.

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– by Ann H. Wolfe – 10/25/12

Books Fit for Halloween

Haunted Annapolis: Ghosts of the Capital City reviewed by Sandra Olivetti Martin We are not alone. Other feet have stood in the spot our lively toes now wiggle. Other lives have occupied the place we now call home. Historians may strain an ear to hear reverberations of their passing; most of us are deaf. Until Halloween, when their calls stir the air around us, raising our hackles.

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– by – 10/18/12

The Reader

Plants of the Chesapeake Bay

Dr. Francis Gouin

In Plants of the Chesapeake Bay, John Hopkins University Press has just published what I consider the most comprehensive and well-illustrated field guide. Lytton John Musselman and David A. Knepper’s 217-page book has outstanding color pictures and descriptions of wildflowers, grasses, aquatic vegetation, trees, shrubs and other flora. It also organizes the plants in communities within the Bay region.

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– by Dr. Francis Gouin – 9/13/12

The Reader

Janet is an utterly personal book describing the human experience with purity, truth and guilelessness. That is how elegies work.

Sandra Olivetti Martin

The elegy is a literary form dear to the human heart, for it’s the best reply we can summon to death’s speechlessness. Janet is such a work, created by Bay Weekly contributing writer Al McKegg in honor of his wife, Janet. With soaring highs and crashing lows, theirs was a love story made for literature. It was too cruel for real life.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 9/6/12

Putting in His Two Cents

Crownsville author writes to end hatred

Ashley Brotherton

Denis Murray wants to put his two cents on the table. After 70 years of reading and thinking and thinking and reading, he believes that death, hate and responsibility are gifts we should appreciate.

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– by Ashley Brotherton – 8/9/12

M.D. Johnson’s Midnight in Moscow

Read Your Way onto the Water

Saveur’s A Bountiful Shore

Chesapeake Country Poets and Novelists

Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House

The Reader: 2012 General Election Voters’ Guide

Books Fit for Halloween

The Reader

The Reader

Putting in His Two Cents

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