Last Updated on September 6, 2025

Books

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Ruth Houck Library

Main Street in Maple Terrace
closed for renovation

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

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:

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, September 16, 2025 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, by Rick Atkinson. [New York: Henry Holt, 2018], reviewed by Ken Weeden.

REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Author’s website
Book excerpt [AARP]
Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution [NY Times]
Author presentation [American Revolution Institute] (video)
Author talk [Gilman Lehrman Institute] (video)
Author talk [Politics & Prose]
Book reviews [BookMarks]
Book review [Blue&Gray Education]
Book review [Emerging Revolutionary War Era]
Book review [NPR]