- April 21, 2022
The Kings family, lobstermen on Loosewood island for over three hundred years, are blessed with the bounty of the sea but cursed with the death of the firstborn son of every generation. Cordelia, eldest child and first female Kings to own her own lobster boat, must contend with this mythical heritage, the aging of her ...
Read more… - April 14, 2022
In gorgeous, gripping language that intensifies as this collection progresses, Smith tracks, minute-by-minute, the progress of Hurricane Katrina as it grows from a tropical depression to a Category 5 storm. Smith describes the physical and emotional devastation of New Orleans, particularly in Black communities. Each poem in this collection feels raw and immediate, and Smith’s ...
Read more… - April 7, 2022
The Poets of Maine is an 1888 “who’s who” of poems by Maine authors. Each listing includes a brief biography of the poet and several short poems. The volume is particularly interesting in that it highlights quite a few female poets, including Mary J. Cummings, born in Bowdoinham in 1838. Mary J. Cummings’ poems Summer-Time ...
Read more… - March 31, 2022
This brilliant collection of erasure poems start with the original texts from many different kinds of notes Kate Baer received or experienced online and are, according to the blurb on her book, “transformed into an absolute artform that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires readers to transform what is ugly or painful in ...
Read more… - March 24, 2022
Ignore the strange title and throw away any preconceived notions you might have about coming of age stories involving sheltered girls from overly religious families- because this book is so worth it. Thirteen year old Jory’s family is strange, even by the standards of their conservative Idaho church community in 1970. So when her older ...
Read more… - March 17, 2022
Romance has moved well beyond your great aunt’s old Harlequin bodice-rippers. Today the genre is vibrant and dynamic, with heroines (and heroes) of all orientations, ethnicities, and identities from all walks of life finding love in all its forms.
Whether you’ve already read every Nora Roberts book there or have never picked up a romance novel ...
Read more… - March 10, 2022
For Black History Month, I really wanted to dive into some Young Adult Nonfiction and I picked up Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. This book is a “remix” of Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning and is told by Reynolds to be more engaging to young ...
Read more… - March 3, 2022
Love short stories? So do Shannon and Hannah! View their favorite collections below, and join these local authors for a montly Writing Workshop.
Shannon
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Drown by Junot Diaz
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Goodnight, Beautiful Women by Anna Noyes
Hateship, ...
Read more… - February 24, 2022
Winter is back (or maybe it never left?), which makes for great reading weather. If you still have the winter spirit, curl up with one of Program and Outreach Manager Hannah’s favorite books that take place in cold places:
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
A city inhabited by only the recently deceased, an ...
Read more… - February 17, 2022
This YA historical thriller travels back and forth in time between Germany in the last days of World War II and New York City after the war. Eva has made a deal that will take her and Brigit away from Germany and safely to the United States. But Eva seeks justice in the U.S., and ...
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