Violet Mackerel’s brilliant plot by Anna Branford Dancing with Rose by Lauren Kessler Nothing rhymes with orange by Adam Rex Deadly pink by Vivian Vande Velde Forever in blue by Ann Brashares The Hinky Pink by Megan McDonald Purple, green and yellow by Robert Munsch
FICTION America was hard to find by Kathleen Alcott. Three indelible characters embody the truths about this country in transition during America’s most iconic moments in the later part of the last century: the race to space, the race against the Vietnam War, and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic. The body in the wake by Katherine Hall Page. Amateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild is at her Penobscot Bay, Maine cottage preparing for a summer wedding, when she stumbles across….a body. Bunny by Mona Awad. A darkly funny, strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique …
Summer is really, yes REALLY, beginning this month! We have had a very long stretch of odd? Unusual? Strange? Wet? (you choose) weather this Spring, and I for one am ready for the new season. Here in Gardiner we bring in the summer season with the Greater Gardiner River Festival. This year the festival happens on June 22nd, the second official day of summer. There will be many activities that day – from Ice Cream for Breakfast, to Face Painting, to the Arts and Crafts Fair on Water Street. For us, here at the library, one of the most important …
FICTION The A list by J.A. Jance. An imprisoned fertility doctor seeks revenge. Anna of Kleve, the princess in the portrait by Alison Weir. The surprising life of the least known of King Henry VIII’s wives is illuminated in this volume of the Six Tudor Queens series. At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight. It’s 1994 and Leonore is a junior at Briarwood. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she’s pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Right. Sure it is. The better sister by Alafair …
FICTION The Ash family by Molly Dektar. When a young woman leaves her family – and the civilized world – to join an off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost. Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson. An inspiring tribute to female friendship and female courage. Three women are brought together in an enthralling story of friendship, heartbreak, resilience in a novel set at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Boy swallows universe by Trent Dalton. A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships, this is …
I think it’s time to explore another of the amazing databases among the Digital Maine Library databases provided to us by the Maine State Library. Okay, I think I’ll check out Books & Authors. There’s a lot going on on the home page of Books & Authors. Tabs across the top of the page include Browse Titles ; Browse Authors ; Browse Genres ; Who?What?When?Where? ; Expert Picks and Award Winners. The left hand side of the page has an olive green section with two file tabs – Fiction and Non-Fiction. Below this section there are two different file tabs …