baltimore (md.)

"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge, and caught the nation's attention . . . tells the story of the Baltimore uprising. Through both [the author's] own observations, and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans . . . Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history--but also an essential cri de coeur about thedeeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath"--Provided by publisher.

In the summer of 1889, Amelia van den Broek's time with her stylish cousin Zora in Baltimore is interrupted by a series of disturbing visions that offer glimpses of the future and threaten her future with Nathaniel, a young man who is keeping secrets of his own and seems to be linked to Amelia's darkest visions.

Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the 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.

Ten-year-old Jake forms an unexpected bond with his estranged grandfather after his mother's injury puts the pair together in time for the Christmas holiday.

Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie.

Traces the story of the 1981-82 Dunbar Poets, one of the best high school basketball teams in United States history. Discusses coach Bob Wade, the politics and conditions of 1980s Baltimore, and the team's four players who went on to careers in the NBA.

Tells the story of Fort McHenry, the place from which American troops successfully defended Baltimore from the British in 1814 in a battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star-Spangled Banner.".

Two sons of a Jewish burlesque operator come of age in mid-1950s Baltimore when one becomes involved with an African-American girl, and the other a WASP debutante.

"Babe Ruth's baseball glove goes missing before a Baltimore Orioles game. It's up to cousins Mike and Kate to find its whereabouts"--Provided by publisher.