Last Updated on September 6, 2025
Books
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:
Book Review of “Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel”
Resident Ed Appel will review Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel [Seattle: Forge, 2017] by Mark Sullivan on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7 PM in the Auditorium. This is his review of the book that will appear in the September 2022 issue of The Sunburst.
Resident Book Review for August 2022
Resident Michelle Foster Chenoweth reviewed Waiting for the Night Song [New York: Forge, 2021] on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 in the Auditorium. REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Author's websiteReview & Summary [BookBrowse]Mysteries Past & Present [Chicago...
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]