Charm City (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

Book Description

As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and everybody's rooting fro him -- until a devastating, muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a

surprise even to the Blight's editors, who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink -- who's found in his garage with the car running.

Now the Blight wants to nail the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story, and the assignment is right up the alley of a former newshound like Tess. But it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker secrets, and to realize that this situation is really more about whacking than hacking. It's just murder in Baltimore these days -- and Tess Monaghan herself might be next on the list.

As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and everybody's rooting for him -- until a devastating, muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a surprise even to the Blight's editors, who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink -- who's found in his garage with the car running.

Customer Reviews:

good, but not great.......2007-06-05

I really like Ms. Lippman's writing and am steadily working my way through all the Tess Monaghan novels, finding that I either like or love them all, which is saying something.

Lest you think I just like or love any old thing I read, let me clarify: since I started looking at reviews of books and trying to find writers whose styles I might like because they were highly rated by people or reviewers of other books I had loved, I have found myself far more pleased with what I read. That's how I found Ms. Lippman's work, and boy am I glad I did. Her Tess Monaghan series is absolutely superb, as are most of her standalone novels.

This one, which I think is the second in the Monaghan series, isn't my fave, but it's a decent book. You really ought to read this one after reading the first one; for some reason, I get the strong feeling you won't get Tess very clearly if you don't have some sort of frame of reference for her already.

In this one, she's hired by the paper she used to work for in order to determine who hacked the paper's computer system and got a story printed up when the paper's execs thought they'd managed to kill the story.

Tess does her usual stuff: approaches the task with humor, as much deceit as she needs to get the job done, and a fairly respectable intellect (just in case you forget she's an English major, y'all).

I like so much in this novel: her growing relationship with Esskay, the greyhound; her relationship with Crow (her much younger boyfriend); the other relationships of significance to her (Whitney, Tyner, etc.). I like how her mind works, how she quickly catches some things while others elude her. She's not a super sleuth. She's not one of those protagonists who seems so quickly to solve everything, to make connections that the average human being would never make. She stumbles a bit and doesn't always see what's right in front of her face.

In this book, in fact, that last thing I mentioned is what kept the book from being as good as it could be. Ms. Lippman is usually excellent at revealing snippets so that the reader is guessing right along with Tess, but in this one, I could see the end coming about 100 pages before the end actually came. I knew whodunnit. I saw a lot of the end coming, and that really detracted from my enjoyment of the novel.

Overall, had I not so clearly seen the plot developing to its conclusion long before Ms. Lippman unraveled it for me, I'd have given this 5 stars. As it is, because I love so much of what I read about Tess and her circle, it gets 4 stars.

I'd like to know what you think. Read "Baltimore Blues," and then read this one. Tell me if you can see the difference in how the villain is revealed.

Happy reading!

Not Charming.......2006-06-06

I had a very hard time trying to get into this book. Finally, I completely gave up, and simply scanned the pages of the story.

After I put the book down, and couldn't even remember the main character's name.

I'm an avid and diverse reader. I read all kinds of books that fall under all kinds of different genres. I also believe in giving an author a chance. But, they only get "1" chance. If their book is a total disaster, I refuse to give them another try.

I will never spend another dime on a Laura Lippman book. TOTAL [...]!!! I'm a writer. I would be ashamed to release such high-school level writing on the market.

I believe you need more than just words on a page to consider a book good. A good read to me is being able to paint a great visual picture in my mind. I should fall in love with some characters, and utterly hate others.

Please, save your money and don't buy this book.

Charmless detective in Charm City: a great evocation of Baltimore........2006-05-24

Having read two of Lippman's mysteries, I'd classify the plots as solid and competent, interesting but not engrossing. The books excel at describing Baltimore (I grew up in Baltimore County.) Lippman's writing about the city is wonderfully vivid and, more than most, chronicles not only the buildings, but the people and I think would bring the city to life even for those who aren't familiar with it. In this respect, I think that Lippman is better than Anne Tyler. I do have one caveat, one would not guess from this book that most of the population of Baltimore is black.

The main problem with the book, unfortunately, is the heroine who is the most implausible private eye I've ever encountered. Miss Marple would eat her for lunch. Tess Monaghan is a very immature, whiny 29-year old, who usually seems about 10 years younger, so diffident that she reminds me of the gooey black mud that coats the bottom of some parts of the Bay and its tributaries: a passive nuisance. She bickers pointlessly with her parents: for example, Tess takes it as a personal affront that her mother likes monochromatic color schemes. This doesn't seem to be the result of losing her only job after the newspaper she worked for folded. She only took that job because one of her friends was a reporter, and when she didn't get a job with the surviving paper, she didn't know what to do. It is hard to fathom why her friends have decided that she should go into detective work, which requires energy, boldness and is potentially dangerous.

Tess strikes me as a generally charmless character; I suppose that's why Lippmen gives her a dog in the second book. I often don't find hard-boiled detectives likeable, but as long as I respect them and the stories are good, I don't need to. (Tess is more like half-baked.) A certain sour pettiness goes with the genre. The detective observes all things great and small with an acerbic carping that presumably is intended to show a superior discerning sensibility or entirely too much familiarity with the world's seamy underbelly, but in Tess it's more like tiresome querulousness.

After doing a respectable job on her first case, Tess strikes out completely on her second, surviving only because a friend who is considerably faster on the uptake comes to her rescue. Somehow, even as Tess goes about her detecting, what she is shown as doing just doesn't mesh with how she is shown as thinking. Lippman throws in the occasional Good Deed to make her heroine seem more admirable, but it seems more like a formulaic plot contrivance than a natural outcome of Tess' personality.

Tess' aunts and uncles, on the other hand are charming and vividly drawn and supply the character interest. So I'd say that if you like books with a strong sense of place, this is a good bet when you're looking for something to read. If character is important to you, or you only like to read this sub-genre is it's really good, I'd look for something else.

Second in the series.......2005-08-30

Former reporter for a now extinct Baltimore newspaper, Tess Monahan is working as an investigator for a city lawyer, waiting to get her license as a PI. Business tycoon, Wink Wynkowski, is trying to bring pro basketball back to Baltimore, but a full scale expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the local paper. The editors of the paper, the Baltimore Beacon-Light, had rejected the story, not wanting the sordid details of this man's criminal past to jeopardize their chances of getting a top team for the city, but, somehow the story appeared in the morning edition. Almost immediately, Wink's body is found in his car, apparently having suicided by leaving the motor running. Tess is employed by the paper to find out how the story got into print and extends her search by interviewing Wink's wives, the present and former. A constant irritant to Tess is an abrasive, ambitious reporter on the paper, Rosita Ruiz, a Latina who doesn't hesitate to use chequebook journalism or to invent stories to suit her own agenda. When Rosita also commits suicide after being fired, Tess is convinced that both Wink and Rosita have been murdered and sets out to prove just that. The story is just a little too bitsy for me, but there are some great characters being established who will, presumably, continue into further books.

Great 2nd Book!!.......2005-07-28

Laura Lippman never lets me down. She really doesn't. I just finished HP6 and I was a little burned-out (something about reading 651 pages in two days that burns a person out). I needed something to just enjoy and not have to be reading every single word and analyzing what was going to happen next. Laura was just what I needed. Tess was just what I needed.

As 2nd books go, this one was very good. It was a little uneven in that it gets really heavy and intense later but is in odd contrast to the beginning, which isn't so intense. The addition of Esskay and Tess' emerging feelings for the dog are great. More of Crow, which is something that is also great. These are fantastic characters that one can't help but wanting to fall back in with them and enjoy your time among them.

I'm going to read the third book. I feel like I'm on a Laura Lippman kick. Not a bad to place to be, let me tell you.

Hex and the City: Sophisticated Spells for the Urban Witch

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Delightful!
Awfully cute

Hex and the City: Sophisticated Spells for the Urban Witch
Lucy Summers
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764156640

Book Description

This lighthearted approach to practical magic offers today’s sophisticated lady a dazzling collection of modern charms and spells. Each spell is specially focused to help her enjoy the fun and face the challenges of urban living. Whether busy at her office desk or socializing amid the glow of city lights, she’ll find techniques that add magic to her life. Here, for example, is the Stiletto Spell, a charm to protect her against that all-too-common calamity, the broken heel, and ensure that her fantastic footwear doesn’t fracture, whether she’s at work or on a sensational date. Here too are spells to help her charm her way into a club and become queen of the dance floor . . . find that perfect knockout outfit to drive ex-boyfriends crazy and attract new guys into her arms . . . conjure up a dream vacation that combines sun, sea, and sex—all the holiday fun she ever fantasized about. This delightful book also offers charms for kicking the smoking habit, getting the most out of gym workouts, finding the perfect apartment mate, driving with ease through city traffic, and lots more. It’s a compendium of happy magic that every modern girl will adore. The good-natured text is enhanced with more than 200 chic color illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Delightful!.......2006-11-01

This book is deceptively simple, it's truely a grimoire for the modern age. If you don't know about witchcraft or magick already, this book is no place to start. You won't get much of an introduction to the Craft. But it is just packed with modern spells that I've found actually work. The spells appeal to a modern woman's sensibilities. If you are looking backwards to connect with the past, this book is not for you. If you are looking forwards for delightful modern interpretations, this book gives a starting point to play with.

Awfully cute.......2003-10-01

This book is so cute with its modish drawings of 20-somethings, like a scene out of that TV series Friends, that I almost bought it. Me. An experienced witch in her 40's.

I sat in a bookstore and looked through it at length. It's almost like a high-fashion comic book, what with all the drawings. But what I couldn't figure out was, who is this aimed at?

It seems to be aimed at the postadolescent, just out of college and moving to the big city for her first apartment, roommate, job, etc. (I guess this is where the teen witch is supposed to go when she graduates from Silver Ravenwolf-land? I always wondered about that, anyway.)

BUT...

Most postadolescents I know are rather uncreative in terms or religion (if indeed witchcraft is viewed as a religion, which is a matter of personal choice). They tend to either ignore it or go along with what they were taught as children. Many of the more committed act on beliefs formed during college or high school (which is probably a good explanation for all that "teen witch" marketing). Generally, however, it seems like early 20's are so busy trying to set up their lives that they don't have time to think about it. Either that, or they were raised in the Craft. For someone in this last category, this book will probably be of no use or interest.

If you're a non-witch, don't expect to learn anything about witchcraft from this book (except a tiny bit of window dressing about how a spell is constructed), and don't expect the spells to work unless you're really lucky or specially talented. Just look at the pictures and enjoy them. The illustrator who worked on this book is hugely gifted.

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"These pages represent my version of a visual "Balmorese" that celebrates the unique, the forgotten, the quirky, the hidden, the well-loved -- streetside charms that are, or were, special to this city because they are either duplicated in no other place or we have adopted them as our own." -- Huguette May

Finding the Charm in Charm City captures a Baltimore that many of us see without really seeing, a city in the midst of change but one whose past still lives in the streets. From the Bel-Loc Diner to the Arbutus Poodle Salon to the now-vacant Pikes Theater, each landmark included in the book has its own story to tell about the city of Baltimore and its people. Here are marble steps and rowhouses, car dealers and corner shops, murals, pubs, and warehouses. Every subject is visible from the street, and May and Smith have arranged the work around fourteen of the city's most inviting corridors, from South Hanover Street and Ritchie Highway to Washington Boulevard and Wilkens Avenue; from Reisterstown, Falls, and York Roads to Eastern Avenue, Harford, and Belair Roads.

Using the Polaroid image transfer technique, Huguette May individually printed more than 100 color pictures that splendidly capture the variety of interesting building exteriors, design details, and quirky sights she found around Baltimore. This unusual process (fully explained in the text) creates color images of a special warmth and vitality, each as unique as its subject.

Accompanying the photographs, Anthea Smith's descriptions blend wonderful human stories and fascinating historical details. Smith has delved deeply into the city's past to bring us Baltimore personalities such as Albert Knight, who invented Formstone in 1937, and William Anton Octavek, who started the city's folk art tradition of painted screens in 1914, when he painted images of meats and vegetables on the screen doors of his grocery store.

Finding the Charm in Charm City shows Baltimore as a city whose singular charms should be celebrated, not forsaken. "They're precious," writes May, "and brighten our lives with grace and beauty and humor, adding luster to modern life, made bleak, as it is, by the stark new buildings and plastic signs of urban renewal." For long-time residents or first-time visitors, Finding the Charm in Charm City gathers and preserves a precious store of grace, beauty, and humor that can only be found in Baltimore.

From Finding the Charm in Charm City:

"Owners of well-coiffed canines in the Arbutus area south of Wilkins Avenue are likely to recognize this storefront with its orderly gray Formstone, freshly laundered white curtains, and an awning fit for a hotel. Since the poodle popularity of the late 1950s, the Arbutus Poodle Salon has also welcomed terriers, cocker spaniels, and 'the all-American house pet' to come in for a bath and a trim."

"A sense of mystery surrounds this sign in a window above East Patterson Street near Charles. It actually marks the site of a club that was formed in 1921 for the benefit of the hearing impaired who are interested in spectator sports. Now the oldest of its kind in the United States, the Silent Oriole Club owes its existence to a city policeman who told a group of deaf men that they had to do something besides stand on the street all day. With his help, they found a place to meet and began the organization, which has since grown to 150 members. Because the participants cannot hear, the club has helpful features such as a flashing light instead of a doorbell and captioned films. The club provides sports and social activities as well as vocational help to its members, and it is part of a nationwide chain of clubs that belons to the American Athletic Association of the Deaf."

"Inside this unusually decorated building on Belair Road in Overlea are over twenty-five thousand hub caps, some dating to the early 1950s. Hub Cap City converted this former neighborhood grocery store fifteen years ago to accommodate its extensive inventory of hub caps and wheels. Not surprisingly, their motto is 'Don't go around with your lug nuts showing.' They also have locations on Crain Highway and Washington Boulevard."

Capture the Charm of Your Hometown in Watercolor

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A must have for your "how to" library!
Indispensible book for the serious artist.

Capture the Charm of Your Hometown in Watercolor
Frank Loudin , and Marcia Spees
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0891347925

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A must have for your "how to" library!.......2000-01-08

This is truly an excellent book! Great techniques and illustrations shown with fabulous detail! Inspirational too! I highly recommend this book, especially if you like painting buildings or scenes with buildings. One of the best watercolor books I've seen!

Indispensible book for the serious artist........1999-02-20

I am a "profesional" seascape artist and needed a push to get myself painting again; and perhaps a change of pace. I find that this book is brim-full of important info, techniques and ideas which any artist can enjoy applying. Raves!

Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America

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Not Enough
way off the road slightly off the mark
You'll read this book through a blur of tears...
Way off and way out!
Gentle humor

Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
Bill Geist
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0767922727
Release Date: 2007-05-15

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“To say it very simply, freezer burn may very well have set in.” —neighbor on the frozen dead guy kept on ice in a backyard shed in Nederland, Colorado.

“Everybody loves a parade; we were just geographically challenged.” —David Harrenstein, organizer of a parade in tiny Whalan, Minnesota, where viewers are in motion and the “marchers” stand still.

“We haven’t lost anyone off these switchbacks in at least ten days” —Mailman Charlie Chamberlain, leading us on horseback 2,500 feet down the sheer walls of the Grand Canyon.

“Ours are the finest cow chips in the world today,” —Kirk Fisher, enthusiast, in Beaver, Oklahoma, world cow-chip capital and cow- chip exporter.

“We live out in the middle of the corn and bean fields, and there’s not a whole lot to get excited about, you know?” —Dan Moretz, on celebrating the day the sun sets in the middle of the railroad tracks in Hanlontown, Iowa.

“It’s like drilling for oil; sometimes you come up dry.” —Gay Balfour, who sucks problematic prairie dogs out of the ground with a sewer vacuum in Cortez, Colorado.

“All you have to do is beat the flies to it,” —Michael “Roadkill” Coffman on the secrets of cooking with roadkill outside Lawrence, Kansas.

“I ain’t gonna brake ´til I see God!” —driver named “Red Dog,” taking the track at a figure-eight school bus race in Bithlo, Florida.

“It’s a gift; you either got it or you don’t.” —Lee Wheelis, world watermelon-seed-spitting champion, Luling, Texas.
“I am the mayor, the board, the secretary-treasurer, the librarian, the bartender —that’s my most important title —the cook, the floor sweeper, the police chief, and I have the books for the cemetery, if someone wants to buy a plot.” —Elsie Eiler, the sole citizen of Monowi, Nebraska.

Celebrated roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life.

“In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling it over, he answered: ‘I'd have to say the Texaco, 'cuz the Shell don't have no microwave.’”

Throughout his career, Bill Geist’s most popular stories have been about slightly odd but loveable individuals. Coming on the heels of his 5,600-mile RV trip across our fair land is Way Off the Road, a hilarious and compelling mix of stories about the folks featured in Geist’s segments, along with observations on his twenty years of life on the road. Written in the deadpan style that has endeared him to millions, Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his far-flung subscribers by plane; the Arizona mailman who delivers mail via horseback down the walls of the Grand Canyon; the Muleshoe, Texas, anchorwoman who delivers the news from her bedroom (occasionally wearing her bathrobe); and the struggling Colorado entrepreneur who finds success employing a sewer vacuum to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs. Geist also takes us to events such as the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival (celebrating an inspiring bird that survived decapitation, hired an agent, and went on the road for eighteen months) and Sundown Days in Hanlontown, Iowa, where the town marks the one day a year when the sun sets directly between the railroad tracks

Along the wacky and wonderful way, Geist shows us firsthand how life in fly-over America can be odd, strangely fascinating, hysterical, and anything but boring.

Customer Reviews:

Not Enough.......2007-09-17

My only complaint about this book is that with all the hundreds of strange places Bill Geist has visited, he only covers a few dozen here. Still, visiting all these places will take me years. I might skip the frozen dead guy.

way off the road slightly off the mark.......2007-08-25

Easy, summertime at-the-beach read. The book is not entirely about "small town charms" because author Geist writes 50% of his stories/anecdotes about curious town characters, each of whom does live in a small town. --A guy who's selling $10,000 stoves? --Another who's a surfer-king at 60?
--A boat-church pastor? Interesting some, but I was expecting to read about "charming towns" with their peculiar festivals, fish-frys, unusual post offices and corner stores...just like the book's cover promised...instead of about curious indivuduals who can be found in any of millions of USA towns, big or small. The book's ok. --A little bit of a yawn, actually....

You'll read this book through a blur of tears..........2007-07-12

I have never laughed so hard in my life - Bill Geist is a genius. I used half a box of tissue because I was laughing so hard all afternoon as I read this book that tears were pouring down my face and the print was blurry. As wonderful as the entire book was, my very favorite chapter was the first, "Standstill Parade" - I wanted to share the humor and realized that I would be incapable of reading that chapter to anyone without bursting into gales of laughter which would have spoiled for them. It occurred to me that married couples would drive each other crazy first by cackling and roaring with laughter during the entire time they read the book and then by wanting to share the humor with each other and trying to read while being unable to control their laughter.

I've been going through a very grim period lately and friends recommended this book. I'm now going to read Bill's other books - sure worked better than antidepressants. Wait until you read about the "road kill stew" - the watermelon champion, the ride in a vintage plane with a man who had had five heart attacks to deliver papers to outlying ranches.

You'll read about "Mike, the Headless Chicken" - reminded me of when my father decapitated a chicken destined for the stew pot and it flew over the roof of the house before expiring - well Mike took a lot longer to expire - long enough to become famous. I won't give any more away - you have to read it yourself.

I promise you "Way Off the Road" is good for whatever ails you.

Way off and way out!.......2007-07-08

Just when millions of Americans are hitting the road in droves this summer, along comes Bill Geist's funky and funny new book, "Way Off the Road". After twenty years of travel, the ubiquitous author has uncovered some of the nation's real oddities and has captured them in this perfect light read. Witty to the core, Geist's contributions leave the reader thinking, "does this really exist in America?"

Yes it does, and while all of these vignettes are worthy entries, some stand out more than others. I particularly loved his trip down to the floor of the Grand Canyon to help deliver mail and supplies to the Havasupai Indian tribe... and the story of the woman who IS the population of Monowi, Nebraska.....just one resident, Elsie Eiler. Elsie is the mayor, police chief, the secretary-treasurer, the librarian and the bartender, just to name some of the hats she wears. When the town's water meter needs to be read, Elsie (aged seventy-three) climbs a ladder, reads the meter, then bills herself and then PAYS herself. Heartwarming stories like Elsie's just don't get much coverage these days!

Geist also relates some of his own history about getting to many of these places (by plane, by car) and what it's like to stay in some of the more remote hamlets. Like a Letterman "Top Ten List", Geist offers advice to the wary traveler. He says, for instance, one of the signs you're in a bad restaurant is if the menu has sections like 'From the Sea'; 'From the Land"; From the Asphalt". But it's many of the quirky characters that come attached geographically that make the book shine. They're not all nuts, but some of them are. Speaking of nuts, his favorite museum curator was the late Elizabeth Tashjian, who ran the nut museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Having seen her once on "The Tonight Show" I would have agreed with his assessment.

Bill Geist's "Way Off the Road" is a perfect beach book, even if you live on the plains of Kansas and don't have a beach near you. I hope it does encourage those readers who are traveling around the United States this summer to stop in and see a few of the places he describes and perhaps meet the people associated with the book's anecdotes. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

Gentle humor.......2007-06-27

Bill Geist travels the US and writes about small town America with gentle humor and fascinating facts. Some of his chapters are hilarious, some more gentle but all present a facet of the US most of us never see and might want to after reading this wonderful book.

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Charm City

Manufacturer: Avon, 1997
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Binding: Hardcover
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Haunted Baltimore: Charm City Spirits
Lynda Lee Macken
Manufacturer: Black Cat Press (NJ)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0970071892

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Baltimore harbors a bounty of spirits aboard the USS Constellation. Spectral soldiers still stand guard at historic Fort McHenry. Edgar Allan Poe's spirit stays alive at his Amity Street home and favorite Fells Point bar.

These are just a few Inner Harbor haunts that offer ghost hunters, history buffs, and tourists a peek at the paranormal. Haunted Baltimore reveals the Charm City's spirit world where the spirits of the dead still captivate the living.

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Great

Packed with exciting facts about peregrine falcons

A Falcon's Eye View

Wonderful illustrations!

Perry's Baltimore Adventure: A Bird's-Eye View of Charm City
Peter E. Dans
Manufacturer: Tidewater Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0870335405

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Great.......2003-09-10

I ordered 3 books and all came in great time frame, like new.

Packed with exciting facts about peregrine falcons.......2003-05-23

Perry's Baltimore Adventure: A Bird's Eye View Of Charm City is a picture book story by Peter E. Dans about exploring Baltimore from the viewpoint of an adventurous peregrine falcon. Kim Harrell's soft colors and absorbing illustrations bring to life this engaging story packed with exciting facts about peregrine falcons and the splendors of "Charm City." Perry's Baltimore Adventure would make a welcome and popular addition to any family, school, or community library collection.

A Falcon's Eye View.......2003-04-21

This little book by Dans and Harrell is a charming introduction to the city of Baltimore, as seen through the eyse of a young Peregrine Falcon. Endangered peregrines first returned to nesting in cities in Baltimore in the 1980's after nearly going extinct in the United States - garnering international attention. Dans skillfully weaves the birth and first year activities of a baby peregrine in with the marvelous history and architecture to be seen in downtown Baltimore. The combination of natural history and scenic Baltimore is very appealing. Kim Harrell's illustrations provide a keen perspective on the falcon's view of a beautiful city.

Wonderful illustrations!.......2003-03-04

This delightful book is a great story and a vivid tour of the city of Baltimore. The color illustrations are breathtaking and really give you a sense of flying along with the falcons as they visit various points of interest in the city. The birds are accurately depicted and the detailed panoramas make you want to look again and again. Highly recommended!

Baltimore: Charm City (Urban Tapestry Series)

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Baltimore: Charm City (Urban Tapestry Series)
Dan Rodricks , Roger Miller , and Carolyn Spencer Brown
Manufacturer: Towery Pub.
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Binding: Hardcover

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"The thing you discover about Baltimore is that you don't have to make it up. The city's full of peculiar, unpredictable, unpretentious delights-a million little roadside attractions.

So writes Dan Rodricks in Charm City. Here, the popular Baltimore Sun columnist explores the decidedly distinctive character of his hometown.

Baltimore, he informs us, is a revitalized city that boasts the same sort of amenities as other American metropolises-the National Aquarium, the Harborplace market, world-renowned medical facilities and thriving arts organizations, not to mention top-notch sporting venues and first-rate teams to play in them.

And yet, Baltimore has so much more to offer.

There's "Bawlmerese," the city's own language A tavern with a stoplight where green means enter. Plenty of charming, historic rowhouses. Crab cakes, French fries with gravy. And people who call you "hon" time and again.

Complementing Rodricks' observations are hundreds of images by the area's finest photographers, carefully selected by Roger Miller to help explore the many unpretentious delights-great and small-that make Baltimore the true Charm City.

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Charleston, city of charm
Jack Leland
Manufacturer: Wayfarer Publications, Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006XFVI2

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