eastern shore (md. and va.)

Creates a microcosm of America by chronicling four centuries in the life of a fictional family on Maryland's Eastern Shore, beginning in 1611 when its patriarch arrives from England with Captain John Smith and showing how the family is shaped by historical events and its fellow countrymen and -women of other races and ethnicities.

Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.

Feeling lonely in his small Eastern Shore Maryland town, twelve-year-old Will thinks he is going to dislike the boy and his sister who move in next door, until the three of them band together to turn an abandoned old mansion into a haunted house.

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City.

A novel concerned with the history of the Chesapeake Bay area, following the lives of fictional Indians and white settlers and their descendants.

When economic reasons cause two families to merge into a crowded household on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, more personal problems exacerbate the tense living conditions.

Feeling lonely in his small Eastern Shore Maryland town, twelve-year-old Will thinks he is going to dislike the boy and his sister who move in next door, until the three of them band together to turn an abandoned old mansion into a haunted house.