Mark your calendars for the Friends of the O’Neal Library annual
book sale! The invitation-only Preview
Party takes place on Thursday, February 19th, then the sale is open
to the public Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
For more information about the Preview Party, click here https://oneallibrary.org/support-friends
The next Books & Beyond Discussion Club will be on
Tuesday, February 24th at 6:30pm.
A slight venue change will be in effect as we’ll be meeting in the 2nd
floor Quiet Room. As always, if you’d
rather attend online, register an email address to receive a Zoom link: https://oneallibrary.org/support-friends
Enjoyable:
Golden Omegaverse duology by R. L. Randolph, Gold Rush and
Gold Mine
Gold Rush is book one in a why choose (MMMMF)
omegaverse duology set in the Golden Omegaverse. Part one ends on a
cliffhanger, June's happily ever after is guaranteed in part two. Juniper Walden has lived a life of
quiet obscurity as a Beta and romance author. When one of her novels gains
traction and she's suddenly trapped in a broken elevator with two strangers the
night before her UK book tour, she realizes her future might not be so
clear-cut.
The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by
Christopher Corbett
The Poker Bride vividly reconstructs a lost
period of history when the first Chinese sojourners flooded into the country
and left only glimmering traces of their presence scattered across the American
West.
The Rush: America’s Fevered Quest for Fortune 1848-1853 by
Edward Dolnick
In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had
been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later,
newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands
of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for
the first time ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In The
Rush, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward
journeys by wagon and on foot and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the
rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos.
Journey by James Michener
In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold
riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek
toward fortune, failure—or death. Journey is an immersive
account of the adventures of four English aristocrats and their Irish servant
as they haul across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields.
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
It's 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and
assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters
brothers find themselves on a journey through the Northwest, bringing them to
the mountains of Oregon, a dangerous brothel in the small town of Mayfield, and
eventually, the gold rush land of California -- an adventure that tests the
deadly family ties that bind.
In 1978 Canada, a bulldozer digs up a long-lost collection
of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Streams free with a valid
library card for residents of cities that subscribe to Kanopy and/or Hoopla. Streams on Tubi with free account.
Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet,Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
“A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that
most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal
to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.”—Ed Yong, New
York Times bestselling author of An Immense World
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal1870-1914 by David McCullough
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the
creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant
engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern
American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian
David McCullough.
Not as enjoyable:
Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, andthe Fight for Indigenous Land by Russell Cobb
In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the “American Century,”
few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront
of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfeit
tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch
up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land.
Writer and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the stage for one such
oilman’s chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page’s campaign for a young
Muscogee boy’s land in Creek County. Problem was, “Tommy Atkins,” the boy in
question, had died years prior—if he ever lived at all. Ghosts of Crook
County traces Tommy’s mythologized life through Page’s relentless
pursuit of his land.
Silicon Gold Rush: The Next Generation of High-Tech Stars Rewritesthe Rules by Karen Southwick
Originally published in 1999, this hasn’t aged well. BAB
reader described it as “boring.”
“A hotbed of activity for far-sighted thinkers and determined doers, the high
technology industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and
executives which is not only behind today's most innovative technological
advances, but at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business.”
General Discussion:
CBS 42: “Alabama’s Gold Rush: A Tiny Town Once Worth
Millions”
https://www.cbs42.com/news/alabamas-gold-rush-a-tiny-town-once-worth-millions/
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by
Timothy Winegard
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction
that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how
through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in
determining humanity’s fate.
This Podcast Will Kill You https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com
This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and
Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle
a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and
epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. The do the scientific
research, so you don’t have to.
BAB member (ME) shared information and a couple of published
articles about controversies surrounding fanfiction and current evolutions in
the subject.
“Should Stephenie Meyer have sued E.L. James when she had
the chance?” by Danielle Binks https://daniellebinks.substack.com/p/should-stephenie-meyer-have-sued
“3 Harry Potter fan fiction authors are coming to a
bookstore near you” by Dhanika Pineda
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5261003/harry-potter-fanfiction-authors-publish-books
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck
called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it
has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of
California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the
intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose
generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous
rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group ofVictorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
by Edward Dolnick
In Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated
storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true
adventure as the paleontologists of the early 19th century puzzled their way
through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we kn
ow today.
Scavengers by Kathleen Boland
A rollicking debut novel about a cautious daughter and her eccentric, estranged mother venturing west in search of buried treasure—and a way back to each other—before they run out of patience, money, and options. Seems loosely inspired by the real 2010 hunt for buried treasure as explored in the Netflix docuseries, Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure (An eccentric man named Forrest Fenn sets off a real-life treasure hunt when he hides a chest of gold in the Rockies and leaves clues in a cryptic poem. https://www.netflix.com/title/81636832)
Book and DVD descriptions pulled from Amazon and Rotten
Tomatoes.
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