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Take our 2025 Community Survey!

Take our 2025 Community Survey!

The York Public Library Association is embarking on a strategic planning process to shape our next chapter, and we need your input!  In order to continue York Public Library's tradition of dynamic, community-focused services, we invite you to take a few moments to fill out our community survey. The survey should take 7 to 10 minutes to complete. Whether you are a regular library visitor or you've never set foot in the building, we want to hear from you. Your feedback will help us establish the...

February 2025 Staff Picks

February 2025 Staff Picks

Fall in love with reading this February with our staff picks!Michelle: The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck I'm not usually a big reader of short stories but I simply loved this collection. From the publisher: "A collection of interconnected stories, set mostly in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache, and desire can echo over centuries In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected...

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The Sweet Sounds and Sights of Spring

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

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

     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

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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