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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon
Holt Paperbacks
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9780805080759
2006
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The Wire: Truth Be Told
Rafael Alvarez and David Simon
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Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story
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The Gwynns Falls: Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake Bay
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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
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Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
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You're Not Listening: Baltimore Youth Speak Out
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Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
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The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland
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The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
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Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland
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A Monument to Good Intentions: The Story of the Maryland Penitentiary
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Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s
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Treasure in the Cellar: A Tale of Gold in Depression-Era Baltimore
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The Great Baltimore Fire
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A Year Across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region
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Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
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Country Walks Near Baltimore: Revised and Expanded 5th Edition
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Too Poor for Pop Culture and other essays
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The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
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Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
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We Were Free for a While: Back to Back in the Black Panther Party
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
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The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
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If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories
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A History and Narrative of Muslim Americans in Baltimore, Maryland : Volume II
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Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
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The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
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LGBT Baltimore
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Druid Hill Park: The Heart of Historic Baltimore
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The Men of Mobtown
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Baltimore Noir
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
Lawrence T. Brown
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Role Models
John Waters
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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
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A Beautiful Ghetto
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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City
Antero Pietila
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Baltimore (MD) (Black America)
Philip J. Merrill and Uluaipou-O-Maloaiono
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The Beast Side: Living (And Dying) While Black in America
D. Watkins
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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city
Antero Pietila
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