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 August, 2019
August 20 - Brief Answers to The Big Questions [London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018] by Stephen Hawking, reviewed by Ralph Strong.REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL'Brief ...' Is Stephen Hawking's Parting Gift To Humanity [NPR]Stephen Hawking’s final...
Review of “Brief Answers to The Big Questions”
Resident Ralph Strong will review Brief Answers to The Big Questions by Stephen Hawking, on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.This final book by Stephen Hawking was published a few months after his death in March 2018. The author attempts...
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]