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Step up

2006
When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora's attention.

The biggest (and best) flag that ever flew

1988
Recounts how Mrs. Pickergill of Baltimore was commissioned to make the huge flag which flew at Fort McHenry over Baltimore Harbor during a battle with the British in 1814.

Middlebury College

off the record
2006
Complete with hundreds of quotes, grades, stats, and reviews, each student-written guide offers a comprehensive collection of information on one paticular school.

Keeping Christmas

an Edwardian-age memoir
1981
Recounts how Christmas used to be celebrated in America after the turn of the century.

Season of life

a football star, a boy, a journey to manhood
2003
Journalist Jeffrey Marx reflects upon his season covering Maryland high school football team the Gilman Greyhounds, describing the lessons he learned about manhood from the Greyhounds' coach, football-star-turned-minister Joe Ehrmann, and the impact it had on his relationship with his father.

The other Wes Moore

one name, two fates
2011
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

Nevermore

a novel
1999
A series of bizarre events and complex circumstances send Edgar Allan Poe and Colonel David Crockett on a wild search for an evil killer.

In the pocket

Johnny Unitas and me
2008
Billy dreams of playing quarterback for the Colts one day, like Johnny Unitas, and although his coach insists he play receiver until he is bigger, Billy in inspired to try harder after meeting his hero and seeing the Colts win the 1958 National Football League championship. Includes biographical information about Unitas.

Entering Tenebrea

2001
Enraged by the brutal terrorist attack that kills her entire family, Andrea Flores leaves behind the world she loves to even the score.

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