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Chesapeake Bay & Eastern Shore
Books set on and around the Chesapeake Bay and its associated rivers, or of interest.
Associated Genres
Annapolis/AACo
Maryland (Other)
Authors & Titles
- Barth, John: Coming Soon!!! (Fiction)
- Barth, John: The Floating Opera (Fiction)
- Barth, John: The Sot-Weed Factor (Fiction)
- Barth, John: The Tidewater Tales (Fiction)
- Byron, Gilbert: Chesapeake Duke (Fiction)
- Byron, Gilbert: Done Crabbin' (Fiction)
- Chappell, Helen: The Oysterback Tales (Delightful dispatches from the backwater Eastern Shore town of Oysterback)
- Croft, Tom: Ocean City M.D. (Fiction) (Maryland Author)
- Fleetwood, Wade: Murder in Ocean Pines (A Mafria threat to Ocean City)
- Gaffney, Patricia: Flight Lessons
- Hodges, Elizabeth: What the River Means (Nonfiction; essays including growing up on the Severn River)
- Hoffman, William: Tidewater Blood (Fiction; thriller)
- Horton, Tom: Bay Country (975.518 H) (A lyrical account of the environment, life, and preservation of the bay.)
- I'd Kill for That (edited by Marcia Talley)
- Junkin, Tim: The Waterman: A Novel of the Chesapeake Bay (Fiction)
- Karlin, Wayne: The Wished-For Country
- Klingel, Gilbert C.: The Bay (574.9752 K) (Stories about the biological study of the bay, its wildlife, and life around its waters.)
- Lawson, Glen: The Last Waterman (639.2 L) (A story of the life, struggles, and rewards of a bay waterman.)
- Lee, Barbara: Dead Man's Fingers (Mystery)
- Lee, Barbara: Death in Still Waters (Mystery) (A Chesapeake Bay mystery)
- Meyer, Eugene L.: Maryland Lost and Found (975.2 M) (A traveler's account of the people who live in the bay watershed.)
- Michener, James: Chesapeake (Fiction) (Researched fiction that captures much of the bay's natural and social history.)
- Mild, Rosemary & Larry: Locks and Cream Cheese
- Osborn, David: Murder on the Chesapeake (Mystery)
- Paterson, Katherine: Jacob, Have I Loved (Y Fiction)
- Rhinehart, Luke: Long Voyage Back (They were sailing on the Chesapeake when the nuclear holocaust came. Now, they set sail for the south, to find a haven . . . if one exists.)
- Richardson, Brenda: Chesapeake Song (Fiction) (set in Nanticoke)
- Roberts, Nora: Chesapeake Bay series (aka Eastern Shore series)
- Sea Swept
- Rising Tides
- Inner Harbor
- Chesapeake Blue
- Schubel, J.R.: The Living Chesapeake (574.92 S) (A pictorial look at the bay's geological history, its evolution, and its vulnerability.)
- Shomette, Donald: Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay and other tales of the lost Chesapeake (975.518 S)
- Shomette, Donald: Pirates on the Chesapeake (975.518 S) ("A true history of pirates, picaroons, and raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807")
- Shore Writers' Sampler (edited by Lucille Fletcher & Harold D. Jopp) (Stories & poetry by Eastern Shore writers)
- Taylor, Marianne H.: My River Speaks (975.255 T) (History and lore of the Magothy River)
- Tilghman, Christopher: Mason's Retreat
- Warner, William W.: Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay (639.544 W) (Lore of the blue crab, history and seasons of the bay, as well as stories about the bay's watermen and their lives.)
- Wennersten, John R.: The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay (975.2 W) (A historical and social account of the oyster wars of the mid-1800s.)
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