How do the Sun and the Moon affect the Earth? Without the Sun, the Earth would be a big ball of frozen mud, just another asteroid, drifting in space with no gravity to anchor it here and nothing to give us heat and light. We could not be here without the Sun. The Moon is…
The Plains Indians
The Great Plains are the part of North America east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River. The American states that are part of this region are Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. The land there is flat and includes prairie, steppe, and grassland…
Take a Hike!
Sometimes, it seems like everybody goes hiking and camping in the great outdoors in the sticky, sweltering summertime. Those are the days when the bugs are at their worst, and the heat alone can leave you panting on the side of the trail before an hour is done. For an easier time of it, grab…
Colonial Virginia
What was it like to live long ago when Virginia belonged to England? When there were no cars, no computers, few hospitals and no free public schools? Without cars, trains or airplanes, people traveled by boat, horseback or on foot by "shank's mare". The reason so many colonial towns were located next to rivers is…
Bestselling Author Jamie Ford
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. This month’s guest reader is New York Times bestselling author Jamie Ford. His novels plunge readers into the Pacific Northwest of decades past, as experienced by characters whose Asian heritage was a source of personal strength…
Alfred King: “An Avid Reader All My Life”
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Alfred King is an excellent choice to be this month’s Guest Picks columnist, as he also reviews books for The Free Lance-Star newspaper, where he often writes on new non-fiction, including politics, sports, and history, as…
If you like A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
The Starks of Winterfell is a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim…
Nimali Fernando, “Dr. Yum”
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Known by some in my community as "Doctor Yum," I am a pediatrician and founder of The Doctor Yum Project, a nonprofit organization in Spotsylvania. We try to help families understand the connection between good food…
Author James Noll
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. “Literacy: Saving the world from the chumps and the goons since about 1440-ish.” James Noll is a writer, a musician, a freelancer, and a teacher. He's published short stories and poetry in WHURK! and The Fredericksburg Literary…
Brothers in Reading Jeremy & Justin
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Living in a home that contains more than 200 feet of bookshelves, Jeremy and Justin had no choice but to fall in love with books. For their second birthday, they received library cards and…
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