The public is invited to join the family of Caroline Rittenhouse and the Stonington Public Library on Friday, September 4 from 3:00-4:00 for a reading and reception to celebrate Maine … Continue reading "The Lives of Strong Stonington Women: A Reading Featuring the Works of Caroline Smith Rittenhouse"
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood • Selected by Laura Watson Winner: Giller Prize (1996) “Alias Grace has all the pacing of a commercial novel and all the resonance of a classic.” –The Washington … Continue reading "SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books"
Three Junes by Julia Glass • Selected by Ellen Shockro Winner: National Book Award (2002) “Enormously accomplished….rich, absorbing, and full of life.” –The New Yorker Find Three Junes in MILS “In June of 1989 … Continue reading "SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books"
Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly • Selected by Kendra Chubbuck Winner: Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction (2011) “Shetterly’s penetrating observations resonate with an … Continue reading "SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books"
March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell • Selected by Pat Dobbs Winner: RFK Book Award (2014) “A riveting and beautiful civil-rights story…Lewis’s gripping memoir should be stocked … Continue reading "SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books"
