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Futuristic thriller, "The City of Devi," completes Manil Suri's loose trilogy about the Hindu trinity - With the Baltimore Ravens headed to the SuperBowl Sunday, it's time to turn to all thing purple, including books.
- Victorian gothic thriller, "Splendors and Glooms" is a 2013 Newbery honor book.
- Carolyn Neuman, 11, of Columbia, recently self-published her first book, "Adventures with the Winglets."
- "The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement" consists of 18 watershed events in the battle to end racial discrimination
- Public library seeks to improve services
- Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches
- South Laurel Recreation Council is accepting registrations for a variety of classes, including chess, knitting, dance and fitness. Montpelier Arts Center is offering Dinner and a Movie. The next showing is "To Kill a Mockingbird," Feb. 16, along with Southern cooking in keeping with the movie's theme.
- In "The Third Bullet," Stephen Hunter's fictitious super-sniper finds middle ground between conspiracy and lone gunman theories.
- As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.
- Jules Witcover says the former Sun reporter wrote perhaps the best book on a presidential campaign
- Richard Ben Cramer had the gift of a great writer: an agile mind that generated entertaining books and magazine articles in topics as disparate as Middle East politics and baseball.
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. surveys the political landscape, from the fiscal cliff to immigration to Benghazi
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- Monthly meetings at Arbutus Library support fellow writers, hone their craft
- Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches
- Robert Ehrlich says health care reform will bring higher taxes, bigger budgets and less choice
- Monthly meetings at Arbutus Library support fellow writers, hone their craft
- Owings Mills resident makes his literary debut with a horror novel about an airborne, flesh-eating plague
- For five months, Jones interviewed and photographed scores of nurses whose work ranged from distributing clean needles on Baltimore's Block to crossing streams in Appalachia to bring health care to the poor to conducting laboratory research that might change the lives of millions.
- For five months, Jones interviewed and photographed scores of nurses whose work ranged from distributing clean needles on Baltimore's Block to crossing streams in Appalachia to bring health care to the poor to conducting laboratory research that might change the lives of millions.
- Donnie Andrews, inspiration for Omar character on "The Wire," dies
- Food Lover's Guide to Wine" by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg is an amazingly fresh and novel exploration of the world of wine and food
- I'd love to see "The Other Wes Moore," developed into a movie, as Oprah Winfrey is planning.
- Author, TV host and veteran wants to move his production company here, and is diving into local charities, volunteer organizations
- John Ridley to write script, Baltimore author Wes Moore wants movie shot in Baltimore
- Her first adult novel, "The Survival of Sarah Landing," and 15th book for children,"The Ghosts of Laurelford" both released in November
- Daniel M. McGuiness, retired Loyola University Maryland writing professor
- When it comes to giving thanks, there's nothing to be said that hasn't been said before — and better — so we opt for tradition instead.
- Dr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an acclaimed and influential professor of American history who wrote widely on Southern history and culture and whose book on honor in the antebellum South was a 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Monday of pulmonary fibrosis at Roland Park Place. He was 80.
- Pulitzer Prize-winner will appear at "Facing Race" conference in Baltimore
