Amid the cultural turmoil of 2002, the world of publishing has stayed on course, producing a bounty of general-reader books. Here is the second element of the annual attempt at a census of general-reader books written by Marylanders or related to Maryland.
Nature
Amphibians and Reptiles of Delmarva, by James F. White Jr. and Amy Wendt White (Tidewater, 288 pages, $14.95 softbound). Seventy species of frogs, turtles, et al. are listed; plus three that may or may not be out there.
Photography
Baltimore, A Portrait, photography by Roger Miller and text by Ron Pilling, (Image, 168 pages, $39.95). A gift book -- a culmination of Miller's art and a salute to Baltimore.
United States Naval Academy Annapolis, photography by Roger Miller, text by Linda Foster (Image, 168 pages, $39.95). Lab and classroom, as well as the standard sports and dress parades.
Camelot at Dawn: Jacqueline and John Kennedy in Georgetown, May 1954, photography by Orlando Suero, text by Anne Garside,(Johns Hopkins, 128 pages, $24.95). A time capsule.
Poetry
Now the Green Blade Rises, by Elizabeth Spires (Norton, 80 pages, $21.95). Burdened by her mother's death, she addresses her daughter.
Ten Tongues, by Reginald Harris (Three Conditions, 59 pages, $12.95). Family, self, love.
Public Affairs
Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, by Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg (Johns Hopkins, 294 pages, $29.95). An unhappy story, still going on.
No Greater Threat: American After September 11 and the Rise of a National Security State, by C. William Michaels (Algora, 364 pages, $29.95 softbound). A lawyer asks: Since 1776, our national watchwords have been liberty and freedom. Are we now ditching them for security?
Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management, by Donald A. Henderson, Thomas Ingelsby and Tara O'Toole (American Medical Association, 244 pages, $29.95). How to handle it, if / when.
Behind Bars: Surviving Prison, by Jeffrey Ian Ross and Stephen C. Richards (Alpha, 240 pages, $14.95). Reading this book is almost like being ushered into the slammer, and left there.
Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women, by Freeman A. Hrabowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene and Geoffrey L. Greif (Oxford, 272 pages, $25).
Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution, by Michael Meyerson (Norton, 287 pages, $24.95). Much of that 1789 document involves arithmetic (though 13, as the number of member states, has been cast aside).
Ralph Nader: Man With a Mission, by Nancy Bowen (21st Century Books, 144 pages, $24.90). Are there still young people who aim for a better world, not just endless money and endless entertainment?
Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures, by Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl Taylor (Johns Hopkins, 352 pages, $19.95). In India, Brazil, Kenya and elsewhere, a bootstrap movement toward better local living, led by four generations of Taylors.
Comprehensive Reform for Urban High Schools: A Talent Development Approach, by Nettie E. Legters, Robert Balfanz, James M. McPartland and Will T. Jordan (Teachers College, 174 pages, $19.95).
Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, by Kellee S. Tsai (Cornell, 336 pages, $35).
Religion and Uplift
The Sweet Use of Adversity: Images of the Biblical Job, by Stephen Vicchio and Lucinda Dukes Edinberg (IPP, 104 pages).
Journey to the Well, by Vashti M. McKenzie (Viking, 241 pages, $21.95). A New Testament story -- the woman at Sychar's well -- highlights the dangers of tribalism, then and now, and of socioeconomic class division.
If I Gave You God's Phone Number... Searching for Spirituality in America, by Mare Cromwell (Pamoon, 304 pages, $23.95). Cromwell puts her question, with follow-up, to 21 people and records their answers.
A Better Tomorrow, by Charles Rammelkamp (PublishAmerica, 148 pages, $19.95 softbound). Cast as fiction, what it's like to be a religious convert -- here embraced, there disbelieved.
Positive Power, by James L. Fisher (Executive Excellence, 207 pages, $21.95). Yesterday, the formula for command called for leadership and character; today, mastery and charisma.
Romance Fiction
The Colonel and the Kid, by Elizabeth Ashtree (Harlequin, 298 pages, $4.99).
A Captain's Honor, by Elizabeth Ashtree (Harlequin, 296 pages, $5.25).
The Trials of Angela, by Millie Criswell (Ballantine, 336 pages, $6.99).
Knock Me Off My Feet, by Susan Donovan (St. Martin's, 336 pages, $6.50).
From the Shadows, by Rebecca York (Ruth Glick) (Harlequin, 251 pages, $4.50).
His Healing Touch, by Loree Lough (Steeple Hill, 252 pages, $4.50).
Out of the Shadows, by Loree Lough (Steeple Hill, 251 pages, $4.75).
Shadow of Doubt, by Linda Morelli (Port Town, 251 pages, $8.95).
The Spiral Path, by Mary Jo Putney, (Berkley, 368 pages, $7.50).
Scarlet Vows, by Dani Sinclair (Harlequin, 251 pages, $4.50).
Deirdre, by Linda Windsor (Multnomah, 350 pages, $11.99)
Science & Health
Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain, by David Buchholz (Workman, 272 pages, $24.95). There is help to be had.
Sex, A Natural History, by Joann Ellison Rodgers (W.H.Freeman, 400 pages, $32.50). A big book on biology, but with many new and lively research findings.
Alcohol and Women: Creating a Safer Lifestyle, by Christopher Gilson and Virginia Bennett (Fusion, 171 pages, $14.95 softbound). Up-to-date advice as to the negatives in carefree drinking.
Understanding Depression, by J. Raymond DePaulo Jr., with Leslie Alan Horvitz (John Wiley & Sons, 304 pages, $24.95). More than twice as many Americans have depression as have coronary disease; at that, depression often goes unrecognized. Recent medical developments offer hope.
A Primer on Mental Disorders, by Thomas E. Allen, Mayer C. Liebman, Lee Crandall Park and William C. Wimmer (Scarecrow, 192 pages, $26.50). A standard checklist of such ailments, here reprinted, fills 10 pages.
Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity, by Guy McKhann and Marilyn Albert (John Wiley & Sons, 304 pages, $24.95). Stroke is less of a risk by now; Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, alas, more.
When They Won't Quit: A Call to Action for Families, Friends and Employers of Alcohol and Drug-Addicted People, by Bruce Cotter (Holly Hill, 160 pages, $19.95 softbound). Procedures for getting an addict to enter treatment.
Sex & Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex, by Deborah M. Roffman (Perseus, 352 pages, $16 softbound). They're not from Venus. Nor Mars, either.
Notes From the Diary of a Caregiver, by Abe Koblin (American Literary Press, 90 pages, $9.95 softbound). His wife has Alzheimer's.
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number, by Mario Livio (Broadway, 324 pages, $24.95).
Science Fiction
Kasper's Box, by Jack L. Chalker (Baen, 320 pages, $24).
These Words Are Haunted, by Scott Edelman (Wildside, 196 pages, $37.95).
Stark's Crusade, by John G. Hemry (Ace, 272 pages, $5.99).
Probability Space, by Nancy Kress (Tor, 368 pages, $24.95).
Dark as Day, by Charles Sheffield (Doherty, Tom Associates, 480 pages, $27.95).
Resurgence, by Charles Sheffield (Baen, 320 pages, $24).
Dancing With Dragons, by Bud Sparhawk (Wildside, 256 pages, $15.95).
Ithanalin's Restoration, by Lawrence Watt-Evans (Tor, 272 pages $24.95).
Sports
The Best There Ever Was: Johnny Unitas, by Roland Lazenby (Triumph, 48 pages, $12.95 oversize). He called the plays, he threw and the Colts won.
Maryland Basketball: Tales From Cole Field House, by Paul McMullen (Johns Hopkins, 240 pages, $29.95). It has now been superseded, but what fierce pleasures, what intermittent gloom infused that arena.
Terps -- National Champions, by The Baltimore Sun (Sports Publishing, 160 pages, $19.95 softbound, oversize). Rank first in college basketball, rate a book -- or books. Sixty-six named Sun staff members worked on this one.
Sweet Redemption: How Gary Williams and Maryland Beat Death and Despair to Win the NCAA Basketball Championship, by Gary Williams and David A. Vise (Sports Publishing, 250 pages, $24.95). From the coach's point of view.
Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock, by Johnny Holliday with Stephen Moore (Sports Publishing, 225 pages, $22.95). The rock 'n' roll figure who became the broadcast voice of football and men's basketball at College Park.
The Baseball Handbook, by Bernie Walter (Human Kinetics, 241 pages, $19.95). The fundamentals, from a top high school coach (55 current or former major leaguers).
The Golden Voices of Baseball, by Ted Patterson (Sports Publishing, 200 pages, $39.95). Major league radio and television announcers.
Lefty's Little Fly-Fishing Tips: 200 Innovative Ideas to Help You Catch Fish, by Lefty Kreh (Lyons, 144 pages, $14.95 softbound). Fits in your pocket.
Thrillers
The Golden One, by Elizabeth Peters (i.e., Barbara Mertz), (William Morrow, 448 pages. $25.95). It wouldn't be a year, without a new Amelia Peabody archaeology-cum-crime novel. It would hardly be Egypt, without Amelia.
The Last Place, by Laura Lippman (William Morrow, 341 pages, $23.95). The chase -- it's Tess Monaghan after a serial murderer; or is it the murderer after her?
The Bride's Kimono, by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins, 400 pages, $6.99 softbound). This time, Rei Shimura, the Tokyo crime-solver, is in Washington, with one boy friend too many.
Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes: A Darryl Billups Mystery, by Blair Walker (One World, 256 pages, $22.95). The third of Walker's edgy mysteries with a Baltimore Herald reporter as the detective.
Red Rabbit, by Tom Clancy (Putnam, 618 pages, $28.95). Jack Ryan, as a novice in cloak-and-dagger (before Red October, even), and a plot to do in the pope.
The Hearse Case Scenario, by Tim Cockey (Hyperion, 338 pages, $23.95). Once again: Hitchcock Sewell, the Fells Point undertaker, and murder, and some great wisecracks.
Locks & Cream Cheese, by Rosemary and Larry Mild (PublishAmerica, 256 pages, $21.95 softbound). Action aplenty, in a mansion by the Bay.
Murder in the Red Brick City: A Tale of Old Baltimore, by Virginia Stang (Xlibris, 199 pages, $30.99). 1835, a newsboy, an alley corpse, officers of the Western Watch, romance, more murders, an observer named Edgar Poe.
A Watergate Tape, by Roy Hoopes (Forge, 384 pages, $24.95). Just before he is to testify about 1972's White House-sponsored break-in and cover-up, Tom Cranston is shot dead on the Ocean City beach.
Dying to Get Her Man, by Judy Fitzwater (Fawcett, 256 pages, $6.99).
Body Contact, by Rebecca York (Ruth Glick) (Harlequin, 251 pages, $4.50 softbound).
Occasion of Revenge, by Marcia Talley (Dell, 272 pages, $5.99 softbound). With three dead husbands, now she closes in on a fourth?
Naturally Bad Manners,
by Richard B. Carter (PublishAmerica, 248 pages, $21.95 softbound). Visit an upstate New York college for faculty chatter and campus crime.
From the Shadows, by Rebecca York (Ruth Glick) (Harlequin, 251 pages, $4.50 softbound). Lethal romance in St. Stephens, on the Shore.
Miscellany
A Structure Opera, by Bruce Fleming (Six Gallery Press, 195 pages, $12.95 softbound). For intellectuals. One act is On the Beauty of Watch Hands; another gives Pocket Calculator instructions; a third, Chess Board Structures. The eighth book from an author of note.
Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Fice Rules of Considerate Conduct, by P. M. Forni (St. Martin's, 196 pages, $20). The Johns Hopkins professor and exemplar of good-natured interpersonalism.
Athena and Eden: The Hidden Meaning of the Parthenon's East Facade, by Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. (Solving Light, 160 pages, $14.95 softbound). What story are the Parthenon friezes telling? This proposed solution links the Hebrew (Yahweh) and Greek (Zeus) traditions.
La Virago, by Marta Knobloch (Campanotto Editore, 159 pages, $10 softbound). A one-act play about the Renaissance figure Catherine Sforza; in Italian and in English.
Answering Their Country's Call: Marylanders in World War II, by Michael H. Rogers (Johns Hopkins, 400 pages, $36). Profiles of 31 in-the-thick-of-it veterans.
Climbing Out, by Brian Ralph (Ralph, 88 pages $10 softbound). Drawings: Guys dig a hole, find a book of magic, build a time machine.
Celebrating Single and Getting Love Right, by L. Joan Allen with Marc Kusinitz (Capital, 274 pages, $24.95). Finding joy in being a single baby-boomer, with or without a relationship.
Shocked and Amazed On and Off the Midway, by James Taylor (Lyons, 240 pages, $14.95). The stars and startlements of carny and sideshow.
Baltimore Iconoclast, by William Hughes (Writer's Showcase, 252 pages, $14.95 softbound). Opinions on current goings-on, in the manner of Mencken.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Health Fair, by Fred Neil (Virtualbookworm, 200 pages, $13.95 softbound). Jokes from all over and under.
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, by Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Steven Parke and Stephen John Phillips (DC Comics, 96 pages, $24.95). A diary, supposedly Poe's, tells of associating with demons and of taking part in a love triangle. With many a mood photo.
Working With Words in Business and Legal Writing, by Lynne Agress (Perseus, 123 pages, $13.50).
The 50 Best Places to Hike With Your Dog in the Baltimore Region by Doug Gelbert (Cruden Bay, 160 pages, $12.95 softbound).
James H. Bready writes a monthly column on regional books. Previously he worked as a reporter, editorial writer and book editor for The Evening Sun.