maryland

After her grandmother's death Sarah Parsons, nearly sixteen, delights in exploring her family's centuries-old Maryland estate with new friend Jackson, but soon she is having vivid visions of her ancestors, one of whom may be a threat to Sarah's autistic brother, Sam.

Nineteenth-century African-American statesman Frederick Douglass tells his life story, describing his years as a slave, his escape, his role in the abolitionist movement, and his experiences in politics and diplomacy.

Alice fills the summer before her junior year of high school with a job at the mall, hanging out with her friends, and wishing she had a bigger family.

The Hunsenmeir sisters, Julia and Louise, first introduced in the books "Six of One, " and "Bingo, " approach their fortieth birthdays as America heads toward World War II, and continue their own, often scandalous battles, in the Southern town of Runnymede, Maryland.

Carson Blake, having overcome his difficult childhood by growing up to be a police officer in Maryland, sees all he has worked for put into peril when he shoots and kills a young man wielding a cell phone Blake mistook for a gun.

Details a day in the life of a rural Maryland boy of Piscataway and Apache descent, looking at his family, the history of both his tribes, and some traditional ceremonies and customs that are still observed in the early twenty-first century.

Details a day in the life of a rural Maryland boy of Piscataway and Apache descent, looking at his family, the history of his tribe, and some traditional ceremonies and customs that are still observed today.

A former Vice-President of the United States, who resigned his office in 1973, discusses the events and evidence leading to his resignation.

The classic autobiography of a runaway slave who became Abraham Lincoln's advisor and the Counsel Generalto Haiti.

Having lost her stepfather, grandmother, and mother in the span of a year, seventeen-year-old Lainey unexpectedly reconnects with long-lost relatives, copes with her five-year-old brother's behavioral problems, and endangers her long-term romance when drawn to a young man with an unexpected connection to her mother.