by T Wilson | Feb 26, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break January 2024 Subject: Engineering Ancient Inventions by Petr James and Nick Thorpe The technological and scientific achievements of humankind prior to the late 15th century. Such as: odometer from China about 300 A.D., snorkel gear as described by...
by T Wilson | Dec 11, 2023 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Australia and New Zealand In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson One of America’s premier humorous writers looks down under. Eighty percent of flora and fauna of this island continent are not located naturally any other place on earth. He reports that this...
by T Wilson | Oct 21, 2023 | Books by the Beach
It is with great sorrow that we say goodbye to Donna Rueff, a longtime friend of the library, a member of the Senior Book Break group, and the author of our very popular Books by the Beach book review blog. We all miss her and her absolute and highly- contagious love...
by T Wilson | Sep 11, 2023 | Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break August 8, 2023 Subject: A Classic Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, who wrote under the pseudonym Acton Bell Anne was the youngest and least prolific of the Bronte sisters. Much of her work was autobiographical. This novel is about a young woman, age 19,...
by T Wilson | Aug 15, 2023 | Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break July 11, 2023 Subject: An Author New to You Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus A female scientist becomes a hit television cook. A single-minded woman who always tells the truth and cooks using facts from her life with chemistry. Our reader...