A Mystery

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre Set in the period of The Cold War, John le Carre’s novels are the quintessential spy stories. His protagonist, George Smiley, is the model for many spies in modern novels. This is a modern classic in which le Carré...

A Book About a Culture Other Than Your Own

Senior Book Break — A Book About a Culture Other Than Your Own A Hidden History of Savannah by Breana and T.C.Michaels This book reveals some of Savannah’s exciting history of pirates and Native Americans and the city planning that preserved the rich culture of this...

Another Country

Senior Book Break Topic: Another County The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman England: The Thursday Murder Club at a Retirement home. Our rocking chair detectives tackle another one. Elizabeth, one of the members, meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, but...

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...