Little Free Library (charter # 62648) is a square blue book box with 6 opaque panes. door open…read moreeasily to the left. books inside are haphazardly stacked on their sides. titles not easily read. assume a mix of fictions... reads: "No Ordinary Time-Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in WWII" Doris Kearns Goodwin -based on interviews with 86 of the Roosevelt's acquaintance. book chronicles 5/10/40 to 4/12/45 (day of FDR's death)

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.

Little Free Library (charter #56533) is a orange oblong book box with a conventional tiled roof. it…read morehas a see thru glass plane, door swings open to the left. mostly has children's titles and a few adult fictions. read- Toni Morrison "Songs of Solomon"- a cliffhanger about "Milkman" & his associates. alternating between pursuing gold, escaping death, finding his identity, finding who is friend or foe, et al.

this yellow library with black box has tiny xmas lites attached around it. small & medium sized…read morebooks, mostly fiction. some children's books. reads. "Escape From Freedom" (Erich Fromm) -the rise of market capitalism leaves the worker with freedom that isn't easily attainable. rather than pursuing it individually, the worker entrusts the task to the prevailing political wind. -after Nazism achieved political power. Germans, not wanting to be left out when other political parties were abolished, acquiesced to Nazi policies, going with a winner. -Nazism appealed to the lower middle class who were resentful, hateful of the petty bourgeois, loved the strong, hated the weak. they were petty, hostile, suspected and hated the stranger. to avoid Nazism, Fromm advises democracies to allow citizens to think/act independently in a freer society.

this free library is inside Hippie's Brew. it's on a rack against the window across from the…read moreordering counter. "Take a book. leave a book" is the theme. presently only a small amount of children's books. read: "Matilda" (Ronald Dahl) *same author who wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" -Matilda's mom valued beauty over intelligence. his dad made his fortune selling old cars with rolled back odometers. family was well off, lived nicely. dad was anti-learning. -Mathilda spent her time reading everything. her teacher, Ms. Honey encouraged her to read more. the head mistress, Trunchbull was a tyrant-enjoyed demeaning the students & Ms. Honey whom she had earlier enslaved. -Mathilda, during her boredom, discovered she had levitation powers. she used same to trick Trunchbull into returning everything she had stolen from Ms. Honey. -story ends happily when Mathilda's parents suddenly run away to Spain to avoid arrest. they allowed Mathida to stay with Ms. Honey.

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.

this white little library (#14155) has a small collection of fiction and children's books…read more read: "The Magic School Bus:Butterfly Battle" (Nancy White) -an humorous "what if" of the transformation of children into butterflies via a powder. well written, informative book. -as "real" butterflies, the students get to feel/empathize what a butterfly's life is about. -the story is interspersed with reports of various info about butterflies: kinds, habitat, life cycles, etc.

this blue library (#69665) has a black roof/ there's a single shelf of non fiction books within…read more reads: "White Fang" (Jack London) -White Fang is written in the voice of the half-dog, half-wolf named "White Fang". in his infancy he lived in the wild. developed killer instincts. he honed them further when he became domesticated by Native Indians. the other dogs were always attacking him so he learnt to defend himself. -when the Native had no need for White Fang, he was sold to an individual who breed him for dogfighting. -White Fang won every fight except his last with a bulldog when he almost died. he was bought and domesticated by his new owner. -Fang moved to Santa Clara county with his new owner. recovering from a near death experience with an escaped convict. he is surprised with a litter of 6 puppies.

this old fashioned white little library (#143662) looks grayish in real time. it has a mix of…read morenonfiction and fiction books, a few children books. it's an old style 2 level affair. it's located a street awau from fairway. address looks strange. reads: "They Called Us Enemy" (George Takei) -it's a graphic memoir George Takei who is known for his role as of Sulu in "Star Trek". -story starts with his childhood involuntary incarceration with over 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in 10 concentration camps thruout the arid deserts in the US. -his crime was being Japanese in an aura of anti-Japan/anti-Asian animus. the Japanese were hated for being too efficient in farming and occuping valuable farmland. competitors and the government salivated at seizing their land and property for pennies. *this is comparable to the Tulsa race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma during 1921 when city officials wiped out black wall street in greenwood for being too self-sufficient and competing with white businesses. heroics of the 442nd "go for broke" all-Japanese regiment with the highest casualty rate in WW2 is also mentioned.. Takei has done countless acting bits before being Sulu and many voices & acting gigs since. he's very talented, active in civil rights, community affaris & many artistic endeavors... in 1992, U.S. government legislation passed stating the it's actions in WW2 was based on "racial prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership", a presidential apology was given and reparation of $20,000 was given to each surviving 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned. *actually got "Charlie Chan is missing", an Asian American anthology here. Takei book is from regular library. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month