Don't let the title fool you, this book is not set in Maryland. Rather, it takes place on the Avalon Peninsula located at a remote tip of Newfoundland, where Lord Baltimore founded a colony. Wayne Johnston, whose novel "Colony of Unrequited Dreams" was a humorous and observant portrait of the Atlantic province, turns to nonfiction for this effort, a history of his young life and the story of his family in Newfoundland.  (NFL11, $13.00)