A Mystery

October 2025 Senior Book Break Subject: A Mystery The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman A quirky cast of characters, who are residents of a posh British retirement village, who get together and solve mysteries.  When a murder happens right in their residence they...

Books That Take Place in Another Country 

September Senior Book Break Subject : Books that take place in another country Erte & New Erte In Full Color by Charles Spencer Erte was an artist, born in Russia in 1892, who moved to Paris.  Not a lot is known about his personal life, but he belonged to the art...

A Good Book You Want to Share

A Good Book You Want to Share Something In the Shadows – Mary Mead This story revolves around twin boys in a family of odd circumstances. One of the sons enlists in the military. The other son dies at home. The deceased son begins to haunt the house. Whenever...

Ghosts August 2025

The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman When an elder on the Navaho reservation witnesses a shootout, one of the gunmen dies in his hogan.  According to the Navajo way his chindi (ghost) is trapped within the hogan, and earth covered structure. The hogan is sealed and a wall...

Westerns

Rails Across the Ranchos by Loren Nicholson An Interesting history of the development of San Luis Obispo County. Visionaries, developers and businessmen saw the potential in this Central Coast area. They encouraged the Southern Pacific Railroad to lay tracks from the...

The Library’s Non-Fiction Room

Dewey – A Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (Non Fiction #590) On Jan. 18, 1988, with a temperature of -15 a Spenser, Iowa librarian went to get books from the book drop. They heard a noise and found a shaking gray mass of mud...