This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. As my parents can most definitely testify, one of my greatest passions is reading. My mom fondly tells everyone, that the reason for my glasses is not video games or excessive TV watching as…
The Major Dynasties of China: Part 2
By Christie Hoerneman The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, the capital of China. While China has been in the news recently and people are aware of some current events occurring in the country, not many realize that China has a long and complicated history full of changing dynasties. To mark the 2008 Beijing…
Local Doctor’s Hours of Heroism
By Barbara Crookshanks The time was sunset on Sept. 23, 1779. A full moon was rising. The place was the bloody deck of John Paul Jones’ ship the Bon Homme Richard. There a young Spotsylvanian named Laurence Brooke would show the stuff of which heroes are made. At age 21, he was the lone surgeon on…
From Pens to Pistols
Free Lance, Tuesday, March 6, 1888 VIRGINIA EDITORS IN A DEADLY DUEL A Newspaper War Ends in a Tragedy—Ellis Williams Shot Through the Heart, and Edwin Barbour Seriously Wounded— [illegible] CULPEPER, VA, March 1. — One of the most desperate and deadly shooting affrays that ever happened in this vicinity occurred here this morning, between Edwin Barbour…
Alum Spring Park: A Walk Through History
By Barbara Crookshanks Alum Spring Park is a 34-acre woodland retreat off Greenbriar Drive with a playground and hiking trails. Its sandstone cliff, also known as the Alum Spring Rock, is 400 feet long and 40 feet high. The park also is one of Fredericksburg's most historic sites. Through the centuries those who came before…
If you like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Check out these brutal, terriyfing visions of the future, similar to Huxley's Brave New World.
If You Like Dune by Frank Herbert
The planet is Arrakis. Also known as Dune. Check out these readalikes for Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi novel.
If you like A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes…
If you like the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown
Check out these intense scifi titles involving complicated futures and fights for freedom of all kinds.
If you like The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing after his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel follows Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers who…
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