Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 from 10am-4pm Spring into Summer with the Friends of the Patten Free Library Book Sale! Books will be for sale in all categories and all proceeds benefit the Patten Free Library.
Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White The 1990s was the decade of tabloid queens, blonde and doomed, despised and beloved in equal measure. To wait in line at the grocery store was to be besieged with a chronicle of the tragedies, disasters, scandals, and dietary minutiae of these women’s lives, dissected for public consumption alongside […]
The Sharing Table is moving to its summer home in the Library Park Gazebo! Everyone is welcome to free fresh vegetables gleaned from local farms and provided by the Merrymeeting Gleaners and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. The Sharing Table is here every Tuesday from 12-2:30 pm.
Twentieth Century Ghosts is a great selection of short stories, including the one that was adapted into the film Black Phone. My favorite short story so far has been You Will Hear The Locust Sing which draws inspirations from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, involving a young man’s transformation into a Locust due to living near an atomic […]
The Patten Free Library Bee Auction is bigger and better than ever! Launching at the Spelling Bee on May 9 and running for one week, our online auction features over $5,000 worth of incredible items: Gift cards to your favorite local restaurants A one-night stay in a treehouse Tickets to plays and museums […]
Attend your annual Town Meeting and vote to support the Patten Free Library’s funding request! Every spring we bring a funding request to the towns of our member communities. If you live in Arrowsic, Bath, Georgetown, West Bath, or Woolwich, now is the time to stand up for your library. Your attendance and vote at […]
The Lost Dresses of Italy is a lovely historical fiction focusing on Victorian poet Christina Rossetti and her family. It’s an immersive Italian setting and I’m learning about the Pre-Raphaelites in a very entertaining way. -Gia, Children’s Room
April is Poetry Month, and to celebrate, I humbly offer for your consideration two recently published poetry collections from contemporary poets. When was the last time you read a book of poems? Who reads poetry nowadays, anyway? My thinking is, perhaps we should. Poetry stirs my mind to soften, to move from thought to thought […]
