Delmarva Nonfiction
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
by:
Earl Swift
4.11 avg rating — 3,010 ratings 1. 
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century 4.15 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Chesapeake Bay Privateers in the Revolution
by:
Leonard Szaltis
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Shipwrecks of the Delaware Coast: Tales of Pirates, Squalls & Treasure
by:
Pam George
3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings 24. 
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
by:
Charles Osgood
3.48 avg rating — 193 ratings 
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Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
by:
Charles Rappleye
4.03 avg rating — 197 ratings 
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Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva
by:
Jim Duffy
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 29. 
Eastern Shore Road Trips (Vol. 2): 26 More One-Day Adventures on Delmarva
by:
Jim Duffy
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 31. 
Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River
by:
Paula J. Johnson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 32. 
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Shipwrecks of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland Waters
by:
Gary Gentile
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties
by:
Mindie Burgoyne
3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings 41. 
Maryland's Vanishing Lives (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf S)
by:
John Sherwood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 42. 
An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
by:
Tom Horton
3.98 avg rating — 201 ratings 43. 
Eastern Shore of Maryland: The Guidebook
by:
Katie Moose
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 44. 
An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
by:
Tom Horton
3.98 avg rating — 201 ratings 
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PENNYWINKLE Oral Histories from Tylerton, Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero 4.08 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
by:
Thomas B. Allen
3.80 avg rating — 375 ratings 
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape From Bondage and His Complete Life Story 4.35 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
by:
Tonya Bolden
3.73 avg rating — 282 ratings 58. 
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Paula Wiseman Books) 4.16 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Eastern Shore Beer: The Heady History of Chesapeake Brewing
by:
Tony Russo
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 60. 
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns: Tales of Carroll's Island Ducking Club 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva
by:
Jim Duffy
3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings 62. 
Chesapeake Winds and Tides: Journeys Among Eastern Shore Islands, Rivers and Communities
by:
Don Parks
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 63. 
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
by:
Sally M. Walker
3.95 avg rating — 1,326 ratings 64. 
Where Land and Water Intertwine: An Architectural History of Talbot County, Maryland liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861, Volume 1
by:
Oswald Tilghman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 67. 
The Other Wes Moore: The Story Of One Name And Two Fates
by:
Wes Moore
3.87 avg rating — 56,990 ratings 68. 
Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy
by:
Tim Newby
4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings 69. 
Mysteries and Lore of Western Maryland: Snallygasters, Dogmen and other Mountain Tales
by:
Susan Fair
4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings 70. 
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To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
by:
D. Scott Hartwig
4.67 avg rating — 107 ratings 73. 
Haunted Maryland: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Old Line State (Haunted Series)
by:
Ed Okonowicz
3.58 avg rating — 84 ratings 74. 
Spooky Maryland: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
by:
S.E. Schlosser
3.17 avg rating — 70 ratings 75. 
The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign, September 1862
by:
James V. Murfin
4.18 avg rating — 96 ratings 76. 
Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and The Battle of Brooklyn
by:
Chris Formant
3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings 
78. 
Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign
by:
Kathleen Ernst
4.19 avg rating — 57 ratings 79. 
Dishing Up® Maryland: 150 Recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay
by:
Edwin Remsberg
4.20 avg rating — 51 ratings 
83. 
Birds of Maryland & Delaware Field Guide: Includes Washington, D.C. & Chesapeake Bay
by:
Stan Tekiela
4.52 avg rating — 54 ratings 84. 
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Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900)
by:
Jessica Millward
3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings 87. 
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The Enchanted Forest: Memories of Maryland's Storybook Park
by:
Janet Kusterer
4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings 90. 
John Gilpin, The China Trade Clipper Brig of Saint Michaels, Maryland 1830-1841
by:
Thomas Hollyday
2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 91. 
Monsters of Maryland: Mysterious Creatures in the Old Line State
by:
Ed Okonowicz
3.41 avg rating — 41 ratings 
93. 
Maryland Women in the Civil War: Unionists, Rebels, Slaves & Spies (Civil War Series)
by:
Claudia Floyd
3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings 94. 
True crime : Maryland : the state's most notorious criminal cases
by:
Ed Okonowicz
3.22 avg rating — 41 ratings 
96. 
Maryland Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series)
by:
Allison Blake
3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Witch Trials, Legends, and Lore of Maryland: Dark, Strange, and True Tales
by:
William H. Cooke
3.28 avg rating — 25 ratings 