Periodicals

The Patten Free Library have periodicals available to read in the library or borrow for 3 weeks at a time. Some digital copies of our periodicals are available on our Flipster here.

Click here to sponsor a periodical. For more information about Periodical Sponsorship, please contact our Development Director, Samantha Ricker, at slricker@patten.lib.me.us or 443-5141 ext 1019.

IN THE LIBRARY:

Antiques
Architectural Digest – Sponsored by Susan Shadwell-Dublin
Artists Magazine
Ask
Atlantic – Sponsored by Elaine Erekson
Babybug – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Better Homes and Gardens – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Bon Appetit – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Booklist
Boston Globe
Car and Driver
Click
Cobblestone – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Consumer Reports – Sponsored by Michelle and Jamie Rines; Sponsored by Ruth Lawson-Stopps
Cooks Illustrated – Sponsored by Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman
Country Living
Cricket – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Discover – Sponsored by Leah and Gary Zartarian
Down East – the Magazine of Maine – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Dwell Magazine – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Economist – US ed – Sponsored by John Zittel
Faces
Family Handyman – Sponsored by Caroline Hibbard
Fine Homebuilding – Sponsored by Peggy Kapisovsky and Mark Farrow
Fine Woodworking – Sponsored by Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman
Girls Life
Good Housekeeping – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
HGTV Magazine
Horn Book Magazine
Horticulture – Magazine of American Gardening – Sponsored by Michelle and Jamie Rines, and Sponsored by Mary Louise Blanchard; and Sponsored by Leah and Gary Zartarian
House Beautiful
Kiplingers Personal Finance
Ladybug – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Library Journal
MAD – Sponsored by Lesley Dolinger
Mainebiz
Make : Technology on Your Time
Mens Health – PA
Mindful – Sponsored by Michelle and Jamie Rines
Mother Earth News
Mother Jones – Sponsored by Ruth Lawson-Stopps
Nation – NY
National Geographic – Sponsored by Allen and Barbara Gaul
National Geographic Kids – Sponsored by Vicki Tanko in honor of Harper & Ella
National Review
New Yorker
Old-House Journal
Paris Review
People
Popular Mechanics – Sponsored by Caroline Hibbard
Portland Monthly Magazine – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Prevention – PA – Sponsored by Leah and Gary Zartarian
Psychology Today – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Ranger Rick – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Ranger Rick Jr – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Real Simple – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Resurgence & Ecologist
Rolling Stone
School Library Journal
Scientific American – Sponsored by Al Fick
Spider
Sports Illustrated
The Sun – Chapel Hill NC – Sponsored by Leslie Trundy
The Week – Sponsored by Sally and Terry Gray
TIME Magazine
Vanity Fair – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Wall Street Journal
Woodenboat – Sponsored by James Peavey
Writers Digest – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert

ONLINE

Conde Nast – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Horticulture
Kiplinger
Atlantic Monthly – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Food & Wine
Prevention
The New Yorker
National Geographic
Rolling Stone
The Sun
Wired
Real Simple

NEWSPAPERS

Portland Press Herald – Sponsored by Sally and Terry Gray, and Michelle and Jamie Rines
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Sunday Boston Globe

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