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...

John Steinbeck

Subject John Steinbeck Flight, a short story For centuries Big Sur residents spoke of “The Dark Watchers.” John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas and spoke of them in this short story.  In the tale a teenage Indigenous Mexican American boy kills a man and is forced to flee...

August 2024 Odd Couples

Senior Book Break Subject: Odd Couples A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Count Alexander Rostov, born into Russian aristocracy, finds himself in Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the luxury hotel, Metropol, he...

May 2024 – Children

Senior Book Break Subject: Children Suggestions for our next Book Break meeting is at the end. Wild Poppies by Haya Saleh Two brothers fight to reunite amidst the turmoil of the Syrian War. This is a story of kids in a war zone. The book details the difficulties of...