this cream 2 shelved library (unlisted) is stuffed with nonfiction and fiction books…read more reads: "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" (Jeremy Scahill) -chonicles the beginnings of Eric Prince recruiting former American military personnel to work in Blackwater. their mission was to guard military installations as well as American companies in various sectors in for. In Afghaistan and Iraq, they guarded US government buildings and diplomats. -at times, Blackwater has operated as a mercenary army. they sparked outraged when they killed Iraqi civilians in Iraq without provocation. -the security firm has been renamed Xe. now it's known as Academi. note: Eric Prince is the brother of Betsy Devos, Trump's Secretary of Education.

Little Free Library (#59528) is a brown book box with a white trimmed window frame with see thru…read moreglass. within are pamphlets, fiction and nonfiction books. reads: ''1984'' by George Orwell -in a futuristic Oceania, Winston works in a totalitarian government whose leader is the omnipresent "Big Brother". his low level job is to create "Newspeak" to match the government's new historical narrative. he tries to rebel against the Thought Police. is discovered/entrapped by government spies. confronted with his innermost, he betrays his love, Julia, and returns to work for Big Brother.

Little Free Library (#59958) is a beige book box with a white framed door that opens to the left…read more inside is a mix of fiction, nonfictions, also 2 chinese language books. it's outside the Museum of Local History. reads: "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee) -voted by some surveys to be the greatest American novel. It was released during the emergence of the Civil Rights era. -"Mockingbird" revolves around the Finch family, especially attorney Atticus Finch. he defends a black man who was accused of assaulting a white women in the deep south during the depression.

this red & dark brown chiildren's library (#43579) has a red trim colored slanted roof. it is…read morededicated to children's book of all shapes, sizes & genres. reads/looks: "Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles" a sounds primer (Jennifer Adams) -it not a book per se lists lists 10 words/nouns on left side with the associated sound written on the right. picture: "doorbells" on left, "ring" word written on right. -didn't see any accompanying disk with sound. unknown recommended ages. assume parent can figure it out.

this vanilla library with a few flowers embosed on it's edges has the usual nonfiction and fiction…read morebooks. reads: "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor" (17)-William Julius Wilson *studies how Black ghettos segregated it's residents from jobs, how the ghetto is in a downward spiral -Black ghettos began losing factories, businesess nearby, depriving Black resident of good paying jobs. new factories/businesses built only in white suburbs -Black residents seldom had autos, needed public transportation, not feasible for them to commute to work in suburbs. -only "jobs" available in ghettos are crime, drugs, ...prostitution."easy $".. -the US outsources more good paying jobs per capita than any other nation. -Black families became less prevalent thru the years -Black residents couldn't fit with work culture in the suburbs: lacking adequate education, work experience, common language. -Black women had a better chance of being hired in the white suburbs. -Americans misinformed that Blacks are the majority of welfare recipients. -misinformation is fueling the "race issue" between Blacks and mainstream America. -changes should focus on how to reform inequality by focusing on social dislocation and joblessness. the social safety net in the US is the lowest of all it's European allies.

this red library (#15638) with a black covering has the usual mix of fictions & nonfiction books on…read more2 shelves. reads: "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21th Century" (Kevin Phillips) *Phillips is a former Republican strategist. now a prolific political analyst/author writer. he was written many books on American politics. -on 11/4/2006, Britain's Guardian, Canada's Toronto Star, & Mexico's Reforma, published a joint survey amongst their citizenry ranking George W. Bush 2nd to Bin Laden as a "danger to world peace". -Dr. Frank, "Bush on the Couch": Bush has traits of "denial, overreaction, grandiosity..., paranoia and 'protective delusion' ". Bush policy priorities: pursuit of new oil sources, advancing Christian fundamentalism agenda, working with the credit and debt industries to fund US deficit borrowing & fund consumer spending and house mortages -US foreign policy based on it's energy needs, especially oil. regimes opposing the US interests are overthrown (Iran, Iraq, Panama...) when oil became scarcer, the US actively sort new sources of oil world wide. -from Reagan on, Christian churches have been wooed by Republicans. Bush as a "born again" Christian advocated Christian themes in domestic and foreign policies. he also pushed churches to preach sermons favorable to his administration. Bush sent military generals in uniform to churches to show his affinity with churches. -in 2000, fire, insurance, real estate (FIRE) was 20% of US GNP (gross national product), surpassing manufacturing @14.5% *consumer financing (credit card interest rates 19 to 25%), home mortgages/refinancing, and the US borrowing to finance the national debt was a major stimulus to the economy. US debt escalated by the Iraq War, tax cuts for the 1%, and the Iraq War. note: history shows a bad ending for debt expaning, it will eventually crash, the bubble will burst. -

this pearly white children's library has a small assemblage of children's books…read more reads: "Giraffes Can't Dance" (Giles Andreae, Guy Parker-Rees) *marketed/distributed by Scholastic Books -book is written in rhymes for early readers/learners of English. -basic theme: Gerald the tall giraffe can't/doesn't know how to dance -magically one night under a bright moon & to a different tune played by a cricket, Gerald began dancing ala John Travolta. -pressed to reveal his secret. Gerald just said: "We all can dance when we find music that we love."

Little Free Library (charter #103797) is a white bookbox with a matching barn-like roof. it's…read more door swings open to the left. entire front is transparent. almost all books are popular fictions, with a few titles like hunger games and philadelphia thrown in. Marcia Clark of the OJ trial has a book here too. reads- Alvin Toffler: "Power Shift: Knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st Century". -3rd book in a trilogy, decades old but still relevant. denotes knowledge as the tool, whether derived by wealth or power, to be the key to innovation in all sectors of life. (business, personal, military, government, et al.) data all factual not anecdotal.