Last Updated on October 6, 2024

Books

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Ruth Houck Library

Main Street in Maple Terrace
Monday – Friday
10 am – 4 pm

Baltimore County Library Bookmobile 

1st Friday of the month:
9:30 – 10:30 AM – Courtyard Crossing (Lobby 7) entrance
10:30 – 11:30 AM – Cross Creek Lobby entrance

3rd Friday of the month:
9:30 – 10:30 AM – Courtyard Crossing (Lobby 7) entrance
10:30 – 11:30 AM – Cross Creek Lobby entrance

For the Baltimore County Public Library bookmobile stops, check under Schedule and Locations [updated monthly] on the BCPL Bookmobile: Mobile Library Services webpage.

Spiritual Book Club 

3rd Tuesday of each month
2 – 3 pm
Jeremiah Room
For current month’s selection, see OLOA/Spiritual Book Club

Books Reviewed by Residents:

Book Review of “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice”

Resident Eugenia High reviews “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics” by Deborah Riley Draper, Travis Thrasher and Blair Underwood [New York: Atria Books, 2020] on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 7 PM in the Auditorium. This is her review that appears in The Sunburst October 2024.

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Resident Book Review for September 2024

Resident Lon Chesnutt reviewed “Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular” [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022] by David A. Hollinger on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in the Auditorium. These are reviews and supplemental materials on the book.

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Book Reviews by Residents

3rd Tuesday of each month from  7 – 8 PM in the Auditorium

Tuesday, October 17, 2024 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.

Resident Eugenia High reviews Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics [New York: Atria Books, 2020] by Deborah Riley Draper, Travis Thrasher and Blair Underwood.

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Publishers Page
Review [NY Journal of Books]
Reviews [BookMark]
Review [LA Times]
Review [Washington Informer]
Review [Games and Rings]
Author Interview [Museum of Jewish Heritage] (video)