Heather Wolf The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries are excited to announce our next informative lecture. In celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month, we welcome back Dr. Eric Kaldahl from the Amerind Museum. Dr. Kaldahl will speak on “Southeast Arizona’s Deep History.” Join us on March 19 in the DesertView Theater at 4 p.m.…
Heather Wolf The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries are thrilled to announce that our extremely popular Spring Author Luncheon will be on March 13. Joining us is William Kent Krueger, a best-selling author and crime novelist best known for his novels set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff…
The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries are excited to announce our next lecture. Please join us on Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. in the DesertView Theater when Ted Fleming returns to inform us on one of our favorites, the hummingbird, along with another pollinator, nectar-feeding bats! They share many features involving their anatomy and physiology, and…
Virginia Bynum June 6, 2024, was the 80th anniversary of D-Day! World War II (WWII) history books are the most popular nonfiction titles in your SaddleBrooke Community Libraries. Patrons have shown extraordinary interest in all matters relating to World War II. Because the nonfiction section is organized by subject, this is a good time for…
Renee Mazin and Virginia Bynum Abraham Verghese wrote, “Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.” But the truth about what? Human feelings, relationships, but not necessarily a historic event that is always molded into the service of a narrative. Elie Wiesel famously said about Holocaust fiction, “A novel about Treblinka is either not a…
John Faulkner Our three-library system has a lot to offer residents of SaddleBrooke and is supported financially by Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries. Through your membership and donations, the libraries are able to offer residents a wide range of books, DVDs, audiobooks, and magazines. If you have not already joined, please go to sbfsl.org/become-a-member for more…
Janet Fabio The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL) frequently feature Arizona authors and topics at lectures and luncheons. Get ready for these events or learn more by reading books from the SaddleBrooke Community Libraries. Interested in Tucson’s history and local attractions? Tom Heath’s book My Life on the Streetcar is available in the DesertView and SaddleBrooke One…
The Life of a Donated Book Bernice Christian You may be thinking to yourself, I know exactly where my donated book will end up—on the shelf of one of our three SaddleBrooke Libraries. Well, that may be the case, or it may not. If you have been to any of our libraries, you will notice…
This is a continuation of “spotlighting” areas of the SaddleBrooke Library system you may not be aware of. Our three-library system has a lot to offer residents of SaddleBrooke and is supported financially by Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries. Through your membership and donations, the libraries are able to offer residents a wide range of books,…
Nancy McCluskey-Moore On Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m. in the DesertView Theater, the Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL) lecture will feature local author Leo W. Banks. Banks has just published his fourth novel, The Flying Z. Will Zachary and his dementia-stricken uncle lead an isolated existence running The Flying Z, a struggling ranch on…