Last Updated on October 22, 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 October 2024

Resident Eugenia High reviewed 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] on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 in the Auditorium. These are some reviews and supplemental reading.

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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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Book Reviews by Residents

3rd Tuesday of each month from  7 – 8 PM in the Auditorium
Janet Neer and Barbara Johnson, Co-Coordinators

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.

Wandering Stars: A Novel, by Tommy Orange. [New York: Knopf, 2024], panel discussion by Justine Parezo, Diana Dunaway and Lenora Urie.

REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS