"This is a book about language. It is also a book about identities-race, place, and class-based-in Washington, DC's Anacostia neighborhood, and how those identities are bound together. It is a book about who belongs to a community and how that community lays claim to its space and its very characterization. In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser conducts extensive interviews with Black Anacostia residents to examine what she terms...

After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.

"Explore the fascinating but little-known history of the waterfront in Washington, D.C"--

"Historic Washington, DC: A Tour of the District's Top National Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of nationally recognized historic landmarks in the district. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of unique archive collections, art galleries, historic homes, and architectural must-sees in the midst of this bustling city. Tour the nation's...

"As its title suggests, Waiter: Reflections and Memories is not a salacious and malicious exposé that tells lies to make a quick buck but remembering, reminiscing, and reflecting on things past as the author remembers them. An honest account of some famous, like Jose Andres, Michael Isabella, Fabio Trabocchi, Roberta Donna, and Ashok Bajaj, and some not-so-famous hardworking women and men he constantly bumped into in tight dining rooms, night after...

On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...