It’s been an amazing year of reading! Here are some of the things PFL staff have enjoyed the most during 2025. In a Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring The Elements by John Boyne Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown by Ann E. Burg The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet […]
Books on Tap: Horror met October 10 to share favorite scary titles. Below is a list of favorite spine chilling horror, thrillers, dystopia, and sci fi. The Handmaids Tale (novel and graphic novel) by Margaret Atwood Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Kindred by Octavia Butler The Passage by Justin Cronin […]
Congratulations to our Edible Book Contest Winners! This year we had 13 wonderful entries and a variety of delicious desserts: cupcakes, brownies, sheet cakes, cookies- the photos are absolutely mouth watering! Below are the winners, and you can see a full gallery of all of the entries at the bottom of the page. […]
You don’t need to be a field hockey player from the 1990s to love this book, nor do you need to have a keen interest in the lore of the Salem Witch trials. If you can check those boxes, the Stantons can pretty much guarantee you will LOVE this book. The rest of you will […]
I loved this book! It was the second selection for a book group I recently joined called “The Coven.” I was not optimistic when I realized that ALL of the titles we would read would most likely be in the SciFi/Fantasy genre, and I struggled with this book for the first 75 pages or so. […]
“The Devil Made Me Do It!”: Crime and Punishment in Early New England, by longtime Bath resident Juliet Haines Mofford, is an excellent and informative read. The book provides detailed stories on the types of crime and the punishments applied in the early days of our country. Whatever the crime — public intoxication, infanticide, or […]
If you like to get to know people by asking them about their favorite books, read this. Take it to the beach and devour it in an afternoon; revel in its tidy celebrations of the transformative power of love and the power of a good book. A.J. Fikry owns a struggling independent book store on […]
Here’s an opportunity to voice your opinion about the books written for you, here, at the Children’s Book Council’s Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. It’s the only national book awards program where the winning titles are selected by kids and teens! The voting takes place, now, through Sunday, May 3, 2015. And, here’s a heads […]
We would like to thank the many members of the community who responded to our library survey last summer. We were pleased to see such a high response rate with representation from each of our service areas: the City of Bath and the towns of Arrowsic, Georgetown, West Bath, and Woolwich. The information you reported and […]
The Patten Free Library has lots of friends, but the Friends organization has a special role; bringing the public into a closer relationship with the library and strengthening the library’s operating budget. Friends members volunteer at the library itself, at the Bookshop, at book sales, and at library events. The Friends provide significant financial support to PFL […]
