- September 10, 2025
Extinction by Douglas Preston is one of last summers big thrillers. It’s a great mix of murder mystery/thriller/science fiction set at a resort featuring “de-extincted” woolly mammoth and other prehistoric mega fauna. It shares the fascinating ethical conundrums found in Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park and feels ready-made for its own movie adaptation.
This title was on ...
Read more… - August 27, 2025
The Ghost Trap is part of the OystHers summer book club that includes all books by Maine women authors. This fiction book perfectly captures the lobstering community of Rockland and Owls Head, Maine and tells a sad but beautiful story of one family and their very real struggle of that life.
-Samantha, Development Director
Read more… - August 21, 2025
While the book is written for a middle school aged person, I found the audio version to be very entertaining. Particularly because a cat is one of the featured characters.
The narrators really made the book come alive for me. This is why I love audio books; because good narration adds so much to it. I ...
Read more… - August 6, 2025
The Bone Shard Daughter is a YA fantasy novel with an east, south-east Asian style culture set in a string of floating islands drifting around in “The Endless Sea”. The emperor of these floating islands keeps the art of bone shard magic (a magic used to animate constructs made from dead flesh using a small ...
Read more… - July 29, 2025
A middle grade book that I’ve been meaning to read for years, and I truly couldn’t put down. It’s a story about a newly trained bard who is kidnapped with his sister and has to learn to survive amidst bloodthirsty Vikings, frost giants, and more. It’s a really great suggestion for someone looking for a ...
Read more… - July 22, 2025
Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America by Sarah Gold McBride
Likely enough you’ve heard of phrenology, the Victorian pseudoscience of drawing conclusions about people and their capacities by palpating and measuring their skulls. Less known is that inquiring minds of the period were prone to reading into even more superficial cephalic signs as well. ...
Read more… - July 16, 2025
…with this lib guide to fermentation! Still looking for more? We are providing starter kits for kombucha and sourdough all summer long. Visit or email the Reference Desk to reserve yours today.
Read more… - July 9, 2025
In our minds, a good summer read applies to anything you read in the summer! In the list below, we have mysteries, poems, road trips, romances, fantasies, and more murders than you might have been expecting! Read on for a glimpse into the fascinating assortment of things PFL staff are currently reading. The majority of ...
Read more… - July 2, 2025
Fifteen years ago, PJ Halliday’s daughter drowned on her prom night. Since then, he has found himself divorced from his wife, barely speaking to his younger daughter, living alone in his former family home, now filling up with things he can’t bear to throw away. He spends his mornings walking to his ex-wife’s house for ...
Read more… - June 25, 2025
Just before the end of school, Patten Free Library staff was treated to a visit from the first graders of Georgetown Central School. They recommended some really terrific picture books about kindness and we are pleased to share them here as well.
The Lonely Mailman by Susanna Isern, Reviewed by Sonny
The Smartest Giant in Town by ...
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