Baltimore Book Festival

David Levithan
Love is the Higher Law

Amiri Baraka
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

LOOK BACK AT 2008

Partipating Authors

Sarah Achenbach	Spirit of Place / Baltimore's Favorite Spaces
Buzz Aldrin	Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Celia Anderson	Love, Ocean
Donna Andrews	Swan for the Money
Molefi Kete Asante	The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony
M.K. Asante, Jr.	It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
Andrew Auseon	Jo-Jo and the Fiendish Lot
Bill Ayers	Race Course: Against White Supremacy
Matthew J. Baek	Panda and Polar Bear
Amiri Baraka	Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Geoffrey Becker	Black Elvis
Rose Levy Beranbaum	Rose's Heavenly Cakes
Margot Berwin	Hothouse Flower and the 9 Plants of Desire
R. Dwayne Betts	A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Edward Bloor	Taken
Libba Bray	Going Bovine
Steve Breen	Violet the Pilot
Dara Bunjon	YUM! Tasty Recipes from Culinary Greats
PJ Campbell	101 Author Tips: Creating a Successful Book Campaign
Lourdes Castro	Simply Mexican
Farai Chideya	Kiss The Sky
Baltimore Childcare Collective
Cora Coleman-Dunham	G.A.G.U.: Gathering A Greater Understanding - The Ultimate Life Guide for Youth
Trish Collins
Steven C. Cunningham	Dinosaur Name Poems
Jennifer Keats Curtis	Baby's Owl Rescue
Dale DeGroff	The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks
Lulu Delacre	Alicia Afterimage
Tara Mataraza Desmond	Almost Meatless
Sharon M. Draper	Just Another Hero
Steve Early	Embedded With Organized Labor:Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home
The Electric Company
Zetta Elliott	Bird
Dan Fesperman	The Arms Maker of Berlin
Garret Freymann-Weyr	After the Moment
Christopher Gardner	Start Where You Are: Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Mordicai Gerstein	Minifred Goes to School
The Get 'Em Girls	The Get 'Em Girls' Guide to the Perfect Get-Together
Marita Golden	Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother
Barbara Graham	Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother
Ami Greko
Brad Grochowski	The Secret Weakness of Dragons
Andrej Grubacic	Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History
Mary Downing Hahn	Closed for the Season
Reginald Harris	10 Tongues
Kim Hendrickson	Tastefully Small Dessert Canapes and Tastefully Small Finger Sandwiches
Christopher Herz	The Last Block in Harlem
Mickey Hess	Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory
Zohara M. Hieronimus	Kabbalistic Teachings of the Female Prophets
Ingrid Hoffmann	Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist
Tracie L. Howard	Friends & Fauxs
Gwen Ifill	The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Connie Imboden	Reflections: 25 Years of Photography
Kim Jensen	Bread Alone
Jon Jeter	Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People
Jeff Johnson	Everything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am
Troy Johnson
Tory Johnson	Fired to Hired
The Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Sara Engram & Katie Luber	The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices
Liz Kessler	The Tail of Emily Windsnap
Margaret Killjoy	Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Robert Hillary King	From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
Michelle Knudsen	Library Lion
Peter Kuper	Diario de Mexico: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Oaxaca
Vikki Law	Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Sandy Lawler
Lyah Beth LeFlore	Wildflowers
David Levithan	Love is the Higher Law
William Loizeaux	Clarence Cochran, A Human Boy
Lois Lowry	Crow Call
Steve Luxenberg	Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret
Toni Lydecker	Seafood alla Siciliana
James Magruder	Sugarless
Djelloul Marbrook	Far From Algiers
Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough	Cooking Know-How
Ellis L. Marsalis, III	Tha Bloc: Words, Photographs and Baltimore City in Black White and Gray
Booker T. Mattison	Unsigned Hype
Charles Mattocks	Eat Cheap But Eat Well: The Poor Chef Cookbook
Bill McAllen	Spirit of Place: Baltimore’s Favorite Spaces
James McBride	Song Yet Sung
Peter McCarty	Jeremy Draws A Monster
Maureen McCormick	Here’s The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
Lisa McCue	Quiet Bunny
William McKinley
Tony Medina	I and I Bob Marley
Philipp Meyer	American Rust
David Miller	Raising Him Alone
Johnny Mo "The Musical Chef"	Rock The Kitchen
Mary Monroe	God Ain't Blind
Jessica Care Moore	God is Not an American
Thembisa Mshaka	Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business
Mildred Muhammad	Scared Silent
S. Muralidharan	A Short Course in Culinary Experiments: Vegetarian Indian Cuisine for Innovative Non-Experts
Eileen Myles	The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays on Art
Ralph Nader	Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Patrick O'Brien	You Are the First Kid on Mars
Kevin O'Malley	Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
Nancy Tringali Piho	My Two Year Old East Octopus: Raising Children Who Love to East Everything
Lia Purpura	King Baby
Michael Rex	Runaway Mummy
Adam Ried	Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes
Susan L. Roth	Listen to Wind
Barry Sanders	The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
Jesse Sandlin
Jane Satterfield	Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond
Judith Byron Schachner	Skippyjon Jones Lost in Spice
Ben Shaberman	The Vegan Monologues
Kevin Sherry	Acorns Everywhere
Lizzie Skurnick	Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
Kevin Smokler	Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
Keith Snow	The Harvest Eating Cookbook
Shadra Strickland	Bird
James Swanson	Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Hudson Talbott	United Tweets of America
Pamela Thomas	Fatherless Daughters: Turning the Pain of Loss into the Power of Forgiveness
Monique Tilford	Your Money or Your Life
Jacquette M. Timmons	Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate
James Warhola	Uncle Andy's Cats
Elissa Brent Weissman	Standing For Socks
Dr. Robert Wicks	Bounce: Living the Resilient Life
Dave Zirin	A People's History of Sports in the United States