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Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of stories set mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland, along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra Olivetti Martin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, Bay Weekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories for that paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and sup...

Bay Weekly Sporting Life Columnist For 16 years, Dennis Doyle led a weekly in-print and on-line fishing seminar, enriched by tall fish- and human-tales, for the 50, 000 readers of Bay Weekly newspaper. His columns, regular prize-winners in Maryland, D.C., Delaware Press Association competition, kept real-time and armchair anglers connected to the living waters of our great Chesapeake Bay and aware of the diversity and wonder of the Bay's man...

First as an Army photographer, then as a reporter, Andy Schneider traveled the world. As he collected facts and photos, so he collected recipes. Hundreds of them. Lamb in Christchurch, New Zealand. Golden trout in Snake River, Idaho. Sweet potato pancakes in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Black ice lobster in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Wild mushroom soup in the Deschutes National Forest of Oregon. Hurricane vegetable paella in Homestead, Florida. Map Debat pat...

Hurricane Connie wobbled like a drunken pirate toward the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. In the late hours of August 11, 1955, Connie turned inland and began tracking a course up Chesapeake Bay. Here, the storm turned its fury on a three-masted schooner, the Levin J Marvel, with 27 crew and passengers who had been enjoying a pleasure cruise. That voyage would end in the Chesapeake's deadliest shipwreck. The true story of the wreck of Levin J M...

In New Sentinels of the Seas, intelligence veteran George Guy Thomas, author of A Silent Warrior Steps Out of the Shadows, presents the inside story of his struggles in his post-9/11 crusade for security on the seas, which led him to conceive and implement Satellite Automatic Identification System ship tracking and a concept he calls C-SIGMA (Collaboration in Space for International Global Maritime Awareness). But Thomas, a quadruple qualified...

57 short essays, each with an evocative black-and-white photograph, each spoken by a different unidentified mourner, relating treasured or regretted moments with a lost loved one. For example, Gone 2 the Dogs describes the comfort brought by an ever-increasing canine family one of whom, "Tucker, that big ol' yellow Lab sleeping on the couch, " may just be the dog of mine you wanted to come back as. Each essay reaches a recognition that death's...

Dawn Anyway is a collection of 40 short poems exploring encounters in each of the four seasons. The book seeks to light a candle in the darkness of our times, affirming the truth that there is still beauty, wisdom, meaning, and joy to be found in the world and in our lives. These are poems of love, for the dawn and for the wider natural world. Dawn Anyway is designed by noted Maryland artist Suzanne Shelden of Shelden Studios, whose paintings ...

A Memoir of the"Wildest Town in the West"by 1890s' police reporter Horace Herbert SmithHorace Herbert Smith take you to Butte, Montana, in its copper-mining heyday to experience that brawling, big-hearted time. In a series of vivid snapshots Smith, a Butte newspaperman, describes the 1890s when, as he writes, life there "was fast and fun." Smith died before he could publish his absorbing and entertaining memoir detailing daytime gun battles an...

In Cove Point on the Chesapeake: The Beacon, the Bay, and the Dream, Carol Booker tells the story of how nature and human desire define a singular place along storied waters.Booker writes of heroes, scoundrels and the families who populated a tiny waterfront community, once known mainly for shipwrecks and treacherous riptides, that became a World War II training ground, the locale for hunting buried treasure, and later a cog in the global ener...

My Date with an Oyster and Other Stories of a D.C. Girl Discovering Chesapeake Country, by prize-winning journalist M.L. Faunce, takes you deep into the heart of legendary Chesapeake Country by two paths.Path 1: Six Chesapeake Country features introduce you to characters and creatures, capturing threatened icons of the great Bay at singular moments in time. You'll read about oysters, crabs, skipjacks, eagles and carousels-and the men and women...

In Issues of Immortality, poems from the year of Covid-19, you feel the delicious urgency of life - in the rush of memories of what could have been when we were young ... and in the poet's ageless, and unquenchable, desire to live in her words.- Sandra Olivetti Martin, New Bay Books publisher

Arpeggio of Redwings-Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joycollects Maryland writer Audrey Scharmen's prize-winning nature essays. Chronicling the year's unfolding seasons, Audrey reflects from backyard to beach to Chesapeake Bay. Reading her wry and lyrical observations, you reconnect with nature's daily miracles. Arpeggio of Redwings-Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joy is a seasonal tonic to refresh your notion of what kind of place this world is...