Books

Winter Reads

With cold weather here to stay, warm up with these Chesapeake authors

Bay Weekly staff

The sights are great, world travelers report. But, they insist, you only really get to know a place through its people. All around us are people who are the keepers of untold treasure. Untold until you scratch the surface. Then you find yourself in the company of people who’ve recorded history being made, and people who’ve delved into the past to recover history made long ago. People who know more than anybody else in the world about this or about that.

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– by Bay Weekly staff – 12/15/11

When the World Was Big

Read all about it in a big new book: Traveling the World for National Geographic

Sandra Olivetti Martin

High-school sweethearts Tom and Lynn Abercrombie grew up when the world was big and globe-trotting journalists lived big. A legendary National Geographic photojournalist, Tom had carte blanche to travel to exotic lands and stay until he had the pictures and story he wanted. Lynn, a freelance Geographic photographer, was at his side.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/3/11

Life's Stories

In two new local novels, truth wears the thin disguise of fiction

Elisavietta Ritchie

Captivity, corruption, escapes, flights in truth and fantasy, murder, messages from the dead, revenge, suicide … The stuff of thriller fiction. But in the lives of authors Donald Shomette, Helena Mann-Melnitchenko and Eugene Melnitchenko, such events were terribly real.

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– by Elisavietta Ritchie – 9/22/11

Summer Reading Rewards

Bay Weekly

Summer Reading Clubs at Anne Arundel and Calvert county public libraries give you ideas, company and rewards for summer reading. At every branch, clubs start this week for children, teens, families and adults. Each age group reads for prizes as well as pleasure.

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– by Bay Weekly – 6/23/11

Taking Children’s Reading Outdoors

Take children to the outdoors with these authors who evoke the magic and mystery of the natural world.

Dotty Holcomb Doherty

For wonder-filled, read-aloud picture books, look for author Jane Yolen. Her Caldecott-winning father-daughter tale, Owl Moon, should not be missed: “When you go owling, you don’t need words or warm or anything but hope.” Also look for Sacred Places, poems and paintings on 12 magical spots around the world; and Ring of Earth, a child’s book of seasons told through animal-voiced poems.

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– by Dotty Holcomb Doherty – 6/23/11

Everyone’s a Poet in April

Is it spring in the air — or just poetry month?

Ariel Martinez Brumbaugh

The world of famous poets is small. The past hundred years have produced a handful of poets whose names are immediately recognizable: Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, ee cummings, Maya Angelou, with space here for your own favorite.

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– by Ariel Martinez Brumbaugh – 4/14/11

Recommitting to Restoration

Invitation to Wonder Might Do the Trick

Janice F. Booth

How do you think our Bay conservation efforts are going? You love Chesapeake Bay, and so do I. But are we stopping the blooms of pollution? Can we foresee plentiful crab feasts? Will we dive off our piers this summer to splash and gambol in the Bay’s once-inviting depths?

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– by Janice F. Booth – 4/7/11

Raymond McAlwee’s Small Success Story

He’s living his Chesapeake dream

Louise Vest

I’d like to say that I saw Raymond McAlwee’s book as soon as I walked into the Fenwick Island bookstore. But my eyes were first riveted to the mound of beckoning crab balls laid out for the store’s patrons. Munching away, I then saw the pile of books he had for sale, and I learned that the recipe for the delicious crab dish was from the same book. I went back to the plate for more of the crab, and later back to McAlwee for tales of Chesapeake Bay.

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– by Louise Vest – 10/7/10

Two Storms by Iain S. Baird

It’s not for everybody, but for the 217,000 American men who will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, this book is a beacon through the storm.

Jane C. Elkin

Annapolis sparked a love story 40 years ago when Iain Baird took the girl he’d marry sailing for their first date. Life’s strange journey took them back where it began for retirement — with Hurricane Isabelle in their rearview mirror. But before Annapolis the second time around came Virginia, Louisiana and two more deadly storms: Hurricane Katrina and prostate cancer. Baird has written Two Storms: Prostate Cancer and Katrina in New Orleans to chronicle his tale of surviving the Big C in the Big Easy, post-Katrina.

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– by Jane C. Elkin – 9/16/10

Wayne Karlin’s Wandering Souls

This Vietnam veteran shows us finely detailed frames of war

Doug Kamholz

The last seven words in Michael Herr’s bestseller Dispatches lament: “Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we’ve all been there.” Well, yes and no.

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– by Doug Kamholz – 7/29/10

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