- April 12, 2023
It is fitting that April is the month of poetry, when poems burst out of dormant minds and flower our consciousness. A celebration of words, a celebration of life. Poetry feels to me like a first language, when atomic particles of words fuse into strings of meaning and we know at once that something has ...
Read more… - April 5, 2023
African Town: Inspired by the True Story of the Last American Slave Ship by Charles Waters and Irene Latham
In 1859, over 100 free residents of the area now known as Benin were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic in appalling conditions aboard the Clotilda. When they arrived in Alabama, they were sold into slavery by ...
Read more… - March 30, 2023
PFL Staff have been busy reading this week! Check out our extensive list below, and don’t forget to place your holds!
Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
The Wicked King by Holly Black
The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
Cici’s Journal: The Adventures of a Writer-in-Training by Joris Chamblain & Aurélie Neyret, translated by Carol Klio Burrell
The Aztec Heresy by Paul Christopher
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising ...
Read more… - March 23, 2023
Someone recently recommended Lungfish by Meghan Gillis to me, so I grabbed it and dove right in. I really loved it! I thought the writing was extraordinary literary prose. It made me feel a lot of things with lots of beautiful, and also harrowing, Maine coast imagery. I learned a lot about what drug addiction ...
Read more… - March 16, 2023
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It by Daniel Knowles
In this scathing anti-automobile polemic, Economist journalist Daniel Knowles argues that cars have taken over the world, and gone a long way towards ruining it in the process. As the miracle invention that drove 20th-century modernization, cars promised freedom, convenience, and the ...
Read more… - March 9, 2023
The residents of The Rabbit Hutch are a diverse cast of characters; a mother secretly afraid of her newborn’s eyes, an elderly couple bent on revenge, an online obituary writer, a trio of former foster children all in love with the same girl. Weaving throughout their stories is Blandine, a strange and luminescent girl obsessed ...
Read more… - March 2, 2023
Bloomsbury Publishing has created two hyper-focused book series and I can’t stop reading them. The first is the 33 1/3 series, which includes 168 books, each one a deep-dive into a specific album. Each book has a separate author and each author, passionate about the album of his or her choice, chooses the direction they ...
Read more… - February 23, 2023
We’ve had Presidents’ Day, a snow day, and February Break all in the same week, which means there has been a lot of time for books! Check out the list below to see what PFL staff has been reading this week.
The Thing by Anne Billson
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
Before I Do by Sophie ...
Read more… - February 16, 2023
Each month Reference Librarian Aurora highlights a few of her most anticipated non-fiction new releases.
Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry
Wolves have long held a unique place in the human imagination, at once a symbol of our worst fears and the wildness we cherish, both despised and revered. Combining memoir, ...
Read more… - February 9, 2023
Remember when it used to snow in Maine? Reading Cathie Pelletier’s bracing account of the calamities that befell Mainers during the infamous Blizzard of 1952 ought to jog your memory. Pelletier, a novelist born and raised in Allagash, lays out the story of the storm through the lives of the ordinary people who survived it, ...
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