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Baltimore, Annapolis & the Chesapeake Bay

by Allison Blake

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 317 PAGES

An intimate guidebook to the Bay, lovingly written by a local newspaper reporter. The book covers sites all along the eastern and western shores of the bay, with lots of history and practical information. (USE17, $19.95)

The Americans, the Colonial Experience

by Daniel Boorstin

• HISTORY
• 1964
• PAPER
• 434 PAGES

Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions. (USA05, $16.95)

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States

by Peter Alden | Brian Cassie

• FIELD GUIDE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States. (USE73, $19.95)

United States Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Map

by Hallwag

• MAP

A map of the eastern United States from the northern half of Georgia to the southern part of New York, at a scale of 1,200,000. (USS57, $14.95)

 

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Mid-Atlantic States Map

by National Geographic

• MAP

A regional map of the mid atlantic states and the Chesapeake bay (USS08, $7.95)

New York City Map

by Popout Maps

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• MAP

This convenient map of New York has a clever "origami" fold to prevent fussing with unwieldy re-folding. (NYC26, $6.95)

Eyewitness Guide New York City

by Eleanor Berman

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

There are hundreds of guides, of course, but we like this one the best -- and we see more visitors in our neighborhood carrying it around. (NYC02, $25.00)

All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward | Carl Bernstein

• HISTORY
• 1994
• PAPER
• 349 PAGES

The legendary story of two young Washington Post reporters who uncover the Watergate scandal, leading to the resignation of President Nixon. (WDC03, $15.00)

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs & the Chesapeake Bay

by William Warner

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1994
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

A lovingly-written history of the blue crab, enriched with local color and a vivid overview of the Chesapeake Bay, its ecosystem, history and future. (USS14, $14.99)

Beyond Philadelphia, The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland

by John B. Frantz | William Pencak

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 296 PAGES

A collection of nine essays on different regions in Pennsylvania and the role they played during the Revolutionary War. (USE92, $31.95)

Confederates in the Attic

by Tony Horwitz

• HISTORY
• 1999
• PAPER
• 406 PAGES

Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book reveals the strange world of the re-enactors, unreconstructed confederates and others whose ongoing interest and involvement in the War Between the States provide an intriguing cultural portrait of the southern and mid-Atlantic states. (USS35, $16.00)

Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

A riveting tale of Washington, Madison, Hamilton and especially of Jefferson and Adams. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's a fascinating glimpse into the early days of our country. (USE244, $15.00)

Gotham, A History of New York up to 1898

by Mike Wallace | Edwin G. Burrows

• HISTORY
• 2000
• PAPER
• 1350 PAGES

This 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for history is a vast volume that traces the Dutch colonization to 1898. Jam-packed with tales of crime, violence, corruption, riots and ethnic struggles, it is anything but dull. Highly recommended. (NYC11, $34.95)

Here is New York

by E.B. White

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1999
• HARD COVER
• 56 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Written in a hotel room over two hot days in the summer of 1948, White's timeless love letter (it's easily read in an hour) captures the spirit of New York. It's a swift, lyrical portrait of the city that moves from Broadway to Central Park and the Hudson River to favorite haunts on 3rd Avenue. (NYC28, $16.95)

Philadelphia, A 300-Year History

by Russell F. Weigley | Edward Wolf | Nicholas B. Wainwright | Joseph E. Illick | Thomas Wendel

• HISTORY
• 1982
• HARD COVER
• 751 PAGES

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia that examines the city's political, artistic, physical, and social development. (USE98, $35.00)

The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787

by Gordon S. Wood

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 688 PAGES

This sweeping political history examines America's transformation from colony to republic during the Revolutionary War. (USE79, $27.95)

Lost New York

by Nathan Silver

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 274 PAGES

This classic, published in 1967, was the urban preservationists' bible. It's a magnificent survey of the history and architectural development of the city, including many of the great buildings lost to the wrecking ball. (NYC13, $25.00)

A Walk in the Woods

by Bill Bryson

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 276 PAGES

The entertaining account of Bryon's hike up the Appalachian trail, combining biting satire with a certain warmth. A fond memoir and a very entertaining read. (USE01, $15.99)

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2005
• PAPER
• 818 PAGES

An engaging biography of the largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. (USE536, $20.00)

An Island Out of Time, A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake

by Tom Horton

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2008
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

An evocative memoir of two years on an island off the coast of Maryland. (USE16, $15.95)

Imagining Philadelphia, Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present

by Philip Stevick

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1996
• HARD COVER
• 216 PAGES

A collection of travel narratives, correspondence, diaries, and fiction dating as far back as 1800. (USE91, $49.95)

John Adams

by David McCullough

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2002
• PAPER
• 751 PAGES

A Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling biography of the second president. McCullough reveals him as a magnificent figure who helped shaped the nation. (USE201, $20.00)

Brotherly Love

by Daniel Hoffman

• LITERATURE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

An extended poem that reflects on William Penn's vision for America and the conflicts that have arisen to challenge this ideal. (USE101, $17.95)

Chesapeake

by James Michener

• LITERATURE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 880 PAGES

Michener works his usual magic, this time on the Chesapeake Bay, telling the history of the region through the story of a colorful family. (USS15, $17.00)

Cloudsplitter

by Russell Banks

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 758 PAGES

The incomparable Russell Banks tries his hand at historical fiction. Owen Brown, son of John Brown, is the narrator, telling the story of his father and how the events of the great abolitionist's life have ultimately shaped his own. Epic, well researched and powerful. (USS196, $16.99)

Philadelphia Fire, A Novel

by John Edgar Wideman

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 199 PAGES

In this novel, an African American writer returns to West Philadelphia to write a book on the 1985 police bombing of a black organization and searches for the one surviving child. Winner of the Pen Faulkner Award. (USE102, $13.95)

Sleepless Nights

by Elizabeth Hardwick

• LITERATURE
• 2001
• PAPER
• 128 PAGES

Harwick's luminous 1979 novel of longing, desolation, New York City and Billie Holiday, thankfully returned to print. Read it for the extraordinary language, the flavor of 1940s New York. (NYC21, $14.00)

The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara

• LITERATURE
• 1996
• PAPER
• 374 PAGES

The powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Gettysburg that recreates the battle, personalities and anguish of those fateful days. (USS36, $16.00)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

by Washington Irving

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 638 PAGES

Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake at night with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works. (NYC23, $10.00)

Time and Again

by Jack Finney

• LITERATURE
• 1995
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

In this altogether wonderful novel, Simon Morley -- an illustrator and secret government operative, native to 1970 New York -- is transported back in time to the Manhattan of the 1880s. (NYC45, $15.99)

Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories

by Joseph Mitchell

• ANTHOLOGY
• 1993
• PAPER
• 716 PAGES

Mitchell's collection of loving, extraordinarily vivid, short pieces, depicting New York in the 40's and 50's. He was a master at painting character, and place, in swift strokes. (NYC61, $18.00)

Life Along the Inner Coast, A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key

by Robert L. Lippson

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2009
• HARD COVER
• 454 PAGES

A field guide and natural history of the rivers, bays and backwaters along the Atlantic coast from the Chesapeake to the Florida Keys. (USE504, $36.95)

Life in the Chesapeake Bay

by Alice Jane Lippson | Robert L. Lippson

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 324 PAGES

This combination field guide and ecological primer on the Chesapeake Bay is a comprehensive guide to local plants and animals which describes the wetlands habitat in which they live. (USS17, $29.00)

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

Dillard's exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons in her own backyard in Tinker Creek, Virginia won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. (NAT112, $14.99)

A Field Guide to Eastern Trees

by George Petrides | Roger Tory Peterson

• FIELD GUIDE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 234 PAGES

The classic guide. (NAM09, $20.00)

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America

by Jon Dunn

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 576 PAGES

From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding. (FG09, $27.95)

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