Last Updated on October 28, 2026
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
3rd Thursday of the month: NEW beginning May 21, 2026
9:30 – 10:30 AM – Charlestown Square Lobby entrance
10:30 – 11:30 AM – St. Charles Lobby entrance
For information on the Baltimore County Public Library bookmobile service, check Bookmobile: Mobile Library Services webpage.
Call BCPL at 410-87-7586 or email: mobile-adult@bcpl.net with questions.
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:
Review of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century
Resident Ken Weeden will review On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 7 PM in the Auditorium. “History does not repeat, but it does instruct.” Thus begins Timothy Snyder’s short book on what the growth of Nazism in the...
Resident Book Review for January, 2020
Jan. 21 – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right[New York: Doubleday, 2016] by Jane Mayer, reviewed by Lon Chesnutt. REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Review by Alan Ehrenhalt [New York Times]Index of 12 reviews of...
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 17, 2026 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson [New York: Crown, 2025], reviewed by resident Ken Weeden.
REVIEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS