The Baltimore Banner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
Kim McLarinThe Baltimore Banner“Come celebrate / with me that everyday / something has tried to kill me / and has failed.” No one embodies the spirit of Baltimore more than poet Lucille Clifton, writes columnist @LeslieStreeter. https://t.co/1Fkq4Tx57G
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes
Duff GoldmanThe Baltimore BannerWhen Maryland’s new Great Wolf Lodge resort launches June 29, heading down one of the 22 water slides will be Duff Goldman, the Charm City Cakes founder and “Ace of Cakes” star. https://t.co/z7c2gfbGnh
Hardcover, 2009
$37.50$18.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonThe Baltimore BannerWhen you rely on the state’s Mobility system for transportation, you can often feel like the narrator in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”: “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” https://t.co/G2rjQALsmI
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life
Benjamin FranklinThe Baltimore BannerTwo students at Benjamin Franklin High School in Curtis Bay were shot on Friday in a nearby alleyway and suffered what law enforcement described as non-life-threatening injuries https://t.co/WCh2r1q04O
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Cannot Save Here
Anthony MollThe Baltimore Banner“Anthony Moll’s poems rocket the reader towards their ‘favorite apocalypse,’ and with a voice both energetic and compelling. It reminds us how to hold on to what we love, even as the world is falling apart around us.” https://t.co/kIRlh06slk
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