- 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, ...
Read more… - February 2, 2023
Literary fiction meets psychological thriller meets elements of true crime: Notes on an Execution is told through the voices of several complex women whose lives have been forever changed by a killer counting down his last hours on death row. The subject is unsettling, but the prose is gorgeous.
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Read more… - January 26, 2023
Each month Reference Librarian Aurora highlights a few of her most anticipated non-fiction new releases.
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 by Cathie Pelletier
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 ...
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