Category Archives: Books

  1. Gyroscopes – What they are and how they work + BONUS War Story

    The year was 1963, President Kennedy had started the race to the moon, and tween boys and their Dads needed to learn all about the engineering involved to be good Americans. This book, found last weekend at the Porterville Friends of the Library monthly sale fills the role of a book a son and his [...]

  2. Earl Weaver – Winning!

    This book could not have been a better fast read at any price, and at 25 cents, it will have a treasured spot on my bookshelf. There is another baseball book I noticed there, even older, that will probably find a new home after decades on the dusty shelves.

  3. 2 Shelves of Books Added to the Library

    Browse  the Library
    Well, actually 1 shelf from my office, and a large pile of books on the floor for which there is no shelf space.
    Many of the ones on the floor are pretty recent, acquired from various catch-a-catch can sources in what masquerades as bookstores here in Porterville: the local 99 cent store, the occasional [...]