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From a thrilling train crash staged in Queenstown for The Whip, a 1917 melodrama, to modern romantic comedies such as Runaway Bride and Wedding Crashers, the beautiful Eastern Shore has long sung its siren call to Hollywood filmmakers. Big stars were born here, have lived here, and are buried here. Natives and come-heres alike have had films made about them. Robert Mitchum. Tallulah Bankhead. The Lindas, Hamilton and Harrison. Annie Oakley. ...

For Lachlan Smith, learning the secret of the apocalypse was the easy part. Ever since Locksmith found the portal to the future, he has been wondering who or what was responsible for the empty, uninhabited world he found. Now he knows--and now he has to fight them. He thought he had fifteen years in which to prevent the extinction of the human species. Now, he has only hours. When the portal is stolen by a cabal of dangerous fanatics, his moth...

When 12-year-old Lachlan Smith found a portal to a hundred years in the future, he discovered a world where the human species had been extinct for decades. Now Lock and a small group of his friends and family are exploring the ruins of the future to learn its secrets. At the same time, they're trying to keep those secrets from the world of the present and prevent the time portal from falling into the wrong hands... all while maintaining the se...

Lachlan Smith doesn't think of himself as a hero. His father lived a heroic life, and died an even more heroic death. Locksmith has no ambitions to do the first, and absolutely refuses to do the second. But everything changes when Lock and his friend Gary investigate a strange noise in the closet of his new bedroom... and discover a portal to another world. It is a vast, steaming jungle, full of ruins and devoid of all human habitation. It is ...

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Environmental scientist Constance Roy is one of forty-nine refugees rescued from Earth's destruction and transported to the ark spaceship Orb by an automaton race called the Curators. Twelve months have passed since their rescue. But now, with the ship's orbit decaying, the refugees seem doomed to crash into Jupiter's fiery belly.In a parallel universe on present-day Earth, another version of Constance seeks answers to the questions that have ...

In a collection of memories resembling pages snatched from a scrapbook, a leading physician and academic researcher reflects on the unpredictability of life. Medical school at Vanderbilt led to a series of life-altering experiences. A brief stint collecting blood samples from freshly slaughtered cattle in a Nashville abattoir left him with bespattered shirts and a dark apprehension of the closeness of death. Throughout his career, the polarity...

Hollywood on the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore. One-hundred years of moviemaking on Delmarva, from Easton to Ocean City and Wilmington to Chincoteague. This is the first comprehensive history of the stars of stage and screen who called the Eastern Shore home during (or after) their lives ... as well as major motion pictures produced on location here. Written with meticulous care and infectious joy by Brent Lewis, a tenth-generation Eastern Sh...

Winner, Silver Medal, IPPY AWARDS (Regional Fiction) Elizabeth's Field captures the realities of pre-Civil War life on Maryland's Eastern Shore and creates characters that struggle in extraordinary adversity. Lockhart traces the branches of several generations of black families, their histories merging, the memories of their grandparents' miseries fading yet not forgotten. Her carefully limned descriptions of the land - the profusion of flora ...

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From the author of the best-selling The Official Crab Eaters Guide and A Guide to Chesapeake Seafood Dining/ Bayside Views to Dine By, comes The Crab Cookbook, a wonderful collection of hundreds of delicious and elegant ways to prepare crab. There are recipes for every variety of crab you may want to serve, from the popular blue crab, stone crab claws, Dungeness crab, to Alaskan king crab legs. The impressive array of memorable meals features ...

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Altered Seasons: Monsoonriseis a top recommendation for cli-fi (climate change fiction) readers seeking more depth than the usual approach to life-threatening environmental changes. - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review. A few weeks with no sea ice in the Arctic Ocean are enough to trigger a chain reactionthat alters the Northern Hemisphere beyond recognition. Isabel Bradshaw, an engineer, tries to find security for her family in ...

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