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November 2024 Staff Picks

November 2024 Staff Picks

Nov 4, 2024 | , ,

Enjoy one of our favorite recent reads with the beautiful fall weather. Michelle: The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh Researcher Isadora Bentley is a loner. And desperately unhappy. She stumbles on an article entitled "Thirty-one Ways to be Happy" and decides to do a little research project of her own: prove the author wrong. A light, fun read. Two thumbs up!  Devin: Parenting is Weird by Chesca Hause It's hard not to delight at all these honest, hilarious, parenting...

October 2024 Staff Picks

October 2024 Staff Picks

Oct 2, 2024 |

Enjoy one of our favorite recent reads with the beautiful fall weather. Michelle: None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell Alix is out celebrating her 45th birthday and bumps into Josie, a stranger whose birthday is the same day: "birthday twins." To Alix's surprise, they bump into each other a few more times in a matter of days. Alix is a podcaster and in quick order, she decides to take on Josie and her story for a podcast project. And that's where things get really weird. Twists and turns abound...

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The Sweet Sounds and Sights of Spring

May 2, 2022 | ,

Spring is an odd and fickle season in Maine and certainly not my favorite as the temperatures rise and fall like a roller coaster and mud is everywhere. There is one special part of spring that I look forward to each year though, the return of the warblers! Like the swallows to Capistrano, these...

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April 2022 Staff Picks

Apr 1, 2022 | ,

April showers bring May flowers.....and a lot of time to pick up a great book.Michelle: The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Avery was a traditional therapist until she went rogue and lost her license. She has her own methodology now and bills herself as a consultant of sorts....

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Shelf Life: Ask a Muslim Anything on March 26

Mar 19, 2022 | ,

     Robert Azzi joins York Public Library on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Photo: New Hampshire Public Radio Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, according to Pew Research. How does that statement make you feel? Confused? Curious? Inspired? Frightened? Despite the rapid growth of Islam...

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March 2022 Staff Picks

Mar 1, 2022 | ,

Oh no! We have one hour less to read this month! Hopefully our list of favorites will save you time on browsing, so you can have more time for reading.  Michelle: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca...

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