Gourmet library

Dear Editor,

A trip to the Trenton Public Library is like dining at a good restaurant.

Their menu includes excellent books, DVDs and multiple resources.

Volunteers serve its patrons and it operates on private donations.

If you want to sample a special appetizer, check out "Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Durgard. It was published 2012 by Holt & Co.

For a controversial book that is like a tossed salad of controversial facts and strange ingredients, read "Nancy Reagan -- the Unauthorized Biography." It was written by Kitty Kelly and published in 1991 by Simon and Schuster.

An outstanding main course is "An American Journey" by Colin Powell. It was co-authored by Joseph E Persico and published in 1995 by Random House.

Born in 1937 in Harlem, N.Y. to Luther and Ariel Powell, immigrants from Jamaica, he joined the ROTC at Morris High School, then he fought in the Vietnam War.

As an able adviser to Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, he shaped the outcome of the Gulf War and Desert Storm and carefully evaluated problems in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He also out-foxed Saddam Hussein, but his support of Barack Obama has been criticized. Some people think it stems from his beliefs on civil rights.

In December 1993, Colin Powell was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for establishing world peace between warring nations.

Helen Ruth Arnold,

Trenton, Nebraska