Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out . . . maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea. Dead Until Dark True Blood was a American dark fantasy horror television series on HBO produced and…
Student Volunteer Amrutha Obbineni
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…
John Paul Jones: A Founder of the U.S. Navy
From a Scottish port to colonial Fredericksburg to the royal courts of France and Russia, the little man who famously refused to give up the fight was perfectly at home in both cottages and elegant salons, but he was always eager to set sail for adventure and glory. The Sailor Lad Named John Paul He was…
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
Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse. Brave New World If you like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, here are some other titles you may enjoy. Anthony Burgess's hero, the hedonistic and violent…
If You Like Dune by Frank Herbert
Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny. Dune In 1984, Universal Pictures released Dune, a feature film adaptation of the novel by director and writer David Lynch (Twin Peaks)…
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…
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