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:
Resident Book Review for September, 2019
Sept. 17 - Fall of Frost [New York: Viking, 2008] by Brian Hill, reviewed by Bill Tilles.REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALAuthor's websiteExcerpts [GooglePaLM is an advanced technology created by Google that help computers understand and generate text. PaLM (Pathways Language Model) is a powerful program that helps computers do complex tasks involving language. It can:
• Translate languages: It can help translate one language to another, lik... READ MORE Books]Review by Mark Kemp [Kenyon Review]Review by Jonathan Miles [NY Times]Fall of Frost Reader's...
Review of “Fall of Frost”
Resident Bill Tilles will review Fall of Frost by Brian Hall on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.Fall of Frost , a novel by Brian Hall, is an up close and personal story of the life of the great poet, Robert Frost. Brian Hall was born...
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]