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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore’s queen of psychological thrillers, Laura Lippman. Her newest, Prom Mom, opens with tragedy the night of the Towson High prom … but it takes two decades of plot twists before we learn the depth of the evil.
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Passions run high between Federalists and Republicans during the War of 1812.
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Young minds are the heart of the mission for CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth, where students write, edit and publish the stories that matter to them.
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We’ll go On the Record with Michelle Paris … who at age 42 was suddenly widowed. It wasn’t just the waves of grief -- but dating apps! compressive underwear to look good! A new pet! It all shows up in her darkly funny novel New Normal.
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We’ll go On the Record with the author of the new novel She’s Not Home, about a family whose sorrow over a lost daughter has turned love into something caustic. Plus: Waverly creates its own book festival!
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Jim Burger has photographed Baltimore for decades. His book “What’s Not to Like: Words and Pictures of a Charmed Life” is part memoir, part time capsule … and part love letter to a city whose streets and people he adores. We get a preview.
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We’ll go On the Record to look at ways to come to grips with the legacy of lynching in Maryland--the outlook for the state’s ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission, and a book tracing a trial that was surrounded and permeated with the threat of lynching.
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We’ll go On the Record with Shawn Nocher, whose latest novel portrays what looks at first like a picture-perfect family in Roland Park. But they’re sorting through long-buried secrets about the sister with disabilities who was sent away and need a new way to be family.
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Civil rights leader and former candidate for governor Ben Jealous reaches deep into personal episodes and his family’s history … to argue that the only path to rebuilding the American Dream is white and Black people working together. The book is: Never Forget Our People Were Always Free.
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We’ll go On the Record with sociology professor Gregory Smithsimon. His book Liberty Road looks at the many factors and people involved when African-Americans broke the color-barrier to build middle-class suburbs in Baltimore County.