This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Steve Ogden has been a professional artist, animator, and writer for almost 40 years. He’s worked for a variety of game companies, including Cyan (maker of the 1990s hits Myst and Riven) and currently works for Sid Meier’s…
Delegate Bob Thomas
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Bob Thomas represents the 28th district in Virginia's House of Delegates, which includes Stafford County and the City of Fredericksburg. After an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps in 2003, Bob and a fellow…
Kathleen Harrigan, Executive Director of the Friends of the Rappahannock
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Books are a big part of my life: paper books and audiobooks, magazines and newspapers. Some have been part of a common canon I shared with my parents; others are shared with friends. Some…
The Germanna Community College Film Club
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. The Germanna Community College Film Club was revived in fall of 2016. All of our members are avid movie fans, as well as a few avid readers, and enjoy sharing our enthusiasm with others…
Rotarian Dave Bohmke
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. From the West Coast to the East Coast, this month's guest reader has experienced the many opportunities that libraries offer. Born in Southern California, my first exposure to a library was in conjunction with…
Ben Motta, MakerLab Volunteer
Ben Motta is a sophomore and cellist at Colonial Forge High School. In his free time, he enjoys reading, hiking, camping, and volunteering in the library's MakerLab at Howell Branch. Here are some of Ben's favorite books: "One of my favorite books of all time. American Gods gives an extremely interesting look into the concept of belief and…
Retired Military Warrant Officer Yvette S. Blake
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Born and raised in Newport News, Virginia, I am a retired military warrant officer, serving 27 years in the United States Army. My family consists of a charming husband, handsome twin boys, a beautiful daughter…
Dr. Daniel Wallace – Engineer, STEM Teacher, and Musician
This post is part of our Guest Picks series, featuring members of our library community sharing their favorite books and movies. Dr. Daniel Wallace is a human factors engineer for the U.S. Navy. He is active in teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to children through demonstrations and teaches a science camp for a…
Literary Origins: Sherlock Holmes and the History of Detective Fiction
Detective and crime-related stories are one of the most popular genres of fiction. In literary form, detective novels are so numerous that publishing companies devote entire labels to the genre and release hundreds of entries per year. Detective/crime-related narratives have become a major part of television programming, with networks basing their entire primetime schedule around crime-related series…
The Earth, the Moon, and the Sun
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…
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