Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Here are some of our favorite Dr. Seuss titles, what are yours? Hop on Pop was a favorite Dr. Seuss book of mine and also of my children. I read the dickens out of that book to my boys and then they in turn read the dickens out of it to me. It was this book that taught them to read, with its hilarious rhymes and funny illustrations. How proud they were the first time they were able to read to me! We laughed a lot at what Pat sat on and what a bad day Dad had. And who can …

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We’re Back!

Well, we, (the staff), have been back in the building since early May.  Color us ALL happy to be back! We have been able to accept return items, in a limited capacity, for about 2 weeks.  We are keeping ALL items in quarantine for at least 72 hours before we check them in and off your library cards.  Please don’t worry – there are absolutely no fines being accrued to any items checked out of the Gardiner Public Library at this time.  We are here for you, and want to be the least of your worries right now. THE BEST …

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Wear A Crown Day

Several of the staff here at the Gardiner Public Library would like the world to know ~~~ The Saturday before Halloween shall be considered “Wear A Crown Day”! For anyone interested, some of us WILL be wearing our crowns this Saturday, October 26th.  We would love you to join us in solidarity! What type of crown? You might ask, well, that is completely up to you! Burger King Crowns would be fine, though I don’t know if BK still gives out crowns.  (I’m probably dating myself in even mentioning them). A jeweled crown would be lovely, but only if you …

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New Items ~ August 2019

FICTION Almost midnight by Paul Doiron.  A deadly attack on one of Maine’s last wild wolves leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy. Ask again, yes by Mary Beth Keane.  A family saga about 2 Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between 2 of their children, and the tragedies to tear them apart and destroy the future. Backlash by Brad Thor.  Cut off from any support, Scot Harvath fights to get his revenge. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson.  Detective Jackson Brodie uncovers a sinister network in a sleepy seaside town. The chain …

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New Items ~ July 2019

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 …

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New Items ~ June 2019

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 …

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