baltimore (md.)

Baltimore detective Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism task force and asked to lead an ultra-secret rapid-response unit on a dangerous mission to stop a group of terrorists from releasing a bioweapon that will turn ordinary people into zombies.

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.

Baltimore detective Kevin Infante becomes caught up in investigating a long-ago crime when police arrest a woman involved in a rush-hour accident only to have her tell them she is the younger of the two Bethany sisters who went missing from a local mall thirty years earlier.

A sociologist turned cop provides an account of his year in Baltimore's toughest neighborhood. Offers insights into the reality of poverty, drugs, and violent crime, and contends that the drug war is designed to fail. Argues for drug legalization to stop drug violence and allow the police to focus on their mission "to protect and serve.".

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

The author describes how his father guided him through his difficult adolescence to where he is now.

Chronicles the sometimes funny, sometimes sad experiences of eight-year-old Anna with her friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I.

Tells the story of Goliath, a fire horse assigned to Engine Company 15, whose steadfastness led him to become a hero during the 1904 fire in Baltimore, Maryland.

Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past.