Seaside Series: Kate Woodworth
2026-08-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Small Cove Park, 6 Atlantic Avenue, Stonington, ME, 04681
Kate Woodworth will present from her book Little Great Island, published by Sibylline Press in May 2025.

About Little Great Island
On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and love.
After offending the powerful pastor of the cult where she’s lived for a decade, Mari McGavin must flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.
Little Great Island illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.
Author Bio
Kate Woodworth is the award-winning author of the novels Little Great Island and Racing into the Dark and the creative force behind the grassroots climate change initiative, Be the Butterfly, that invites everyone to perform one small act or behavioral change to help mitigate climate change.
A passionate lover of the natural world, Kate writes about the impact of climate change on our food supply on her Substack, “Food in the Time of Climate Change.” She has appeared on C-Span2 Book TV; Good Morning, Utah; NPR’s Maine Calling; and Good Day, Maine, and her essays on climate fiction and the role of fiction writers in the climate discourse have been published by the Climate Fiction Writers League.
You can learn more about Kate Woodworth and her books on her website.

The rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL, 64 Main Street.

Seaside Series: Bruce Robert Coffin
2026-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Small Cove Park, 6 Atlantic Avenue, Stonington, ME, 04681
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Bruce Robert Coffin will present from his latest book, Dark Harbor, published by Severn River Publishing in August 2026.
About Dark Harbor
Dark Harbor is the third book in Coffin’s Detective Justice series, featuring Detective Brock Justice investigating the deaths of a millionaire and a burglar in Bar Harbor, Maine, uncovering secrets of the wealthy elite while dealing with a suspicious new partner, Samantha Osborn. The mystery involves a mansion break-in, conflicting evidence pointing to the victim’s wife, and powerful figures trying to hide the truth.
Author Bio
Bruce Robert Coffin is an international bestselling novelist and short story writer. A retired police detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, Bruce supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine’s largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director’s Award, the highest award a non- agent can receive. He is the author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, co-author of The Turner and Mosley Files (along with bestselling author LynDee Walker), and author of the Detective Justice Mysteries.
Bruce is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
He lives and writes in Maine.
You can learn more about Coffin and his writing on his website.

The rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL, 64 Main Street.

Seaside Series: Jim and Emma Krosschell
2026-08-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Small Cove Park, 6 Atlantic Avenue, Stonington, ME, 04681
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Father and daughter team, Jim and Emma Krosschell, will present their poetry from their respective books, Man Afield, published by Prolific Pulse Press LLC in March 2026, and Hermitage published by Littoral Books in October 2024.
About Man Afield
Man Afield is a lyrical journey through the living world, guided by a backyard naturalist attuned to both wonder and warning. These poems chronicle spiritual and physical excursions into landscapes larger than any one mind or body — places where awe, joy, disorientation, and reckoning intertwine.
Man Afield is at once a field journal, a meditation, and a love song — to earth, to home, and to the fragile bond between them.
About Hermitage

In Hermitage, Emma Krosschell inhabits a liminal space, somewhere between her mind and the living world of hemlock, crows, snow, wind, tides and stars. These are poems that begin in silence, and draw us into those moments when the world comes alive before her eyes. She is, above all, a witness, and we become witnesses along with her in this place where the finite, mortal self meets something greater. She is listening intently, seeing deeply, and her heart is wide open. – Stuart Kestenbaum, Former Poet Laureate of Maine

Author Bios
Jim Krosschelll has published poems and essays in some 85 journals, plus three collections: One Man’s Maine, which won a Maine Literary Award, Owls Head Revisited, and Man Afield. He lives in Deer Isle, ME and Newton, MA, and volunteers on boards for Coastal Mountains Land Trust and the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

Emma Krosschell lives in Brooksville, Maine, with her partner and their dog. She spends her time wandering in the woods and baking as much bread as she can. Hermitage is her first collection of poetry.

The rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL, 64 Main Street.

Seaside Series: Noah Fishman and Special Guest
2026-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Small Cove Park, 6 Atlantic Avenue, Stonington, ME, 04681
Noah Fishman is a performer, composer, and educator. Rooted in Maine, Noah ventures to make bold, playful statements by bending lines between folk, chamber, and jazz. At home on a number of stringed instruments including mandolin, bass, and guitar, Noah is known for his instrumental creativity, spirited performances, and fluid improvisation.
Noah has performed across the United States, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Ireland, and The Netherlands. Raised by visual artists in a renovated barn, Noah studied at Princeton, IRCAM, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In 2019, Noah was selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residency at The Kennedy Center. In 2020, Noah received a masters degree in composition from the University of Michigan.

SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
2026-09-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom, Virtual
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 Post Book World
Find Alias Grace in MILS
“It’s 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?” –From the publisher’s website
Eleven readers chose 11 books, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday, December 14, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list, please send a request to the email below.

SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
2026-10-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom, Virtual
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 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage.
Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses.
Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her.” –From the publisher’s website
Eleven readers chose 11 books, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday, December 14, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list, please send a request to the email below.

SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
2026-11-23 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom, Virtual
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 undeniable sense of what matters most in life: the preservation of self, the protection of wilderness, and appreciation for the passage of time…” –Booklist
Find Settled in the Wild in MILS
“Settled in the Wild takes us into the woods and along the shorelines, mudflats, and paths of rural Maine, where Susan Hand Shetterly has lived and written about nature for the past thirty years. Now, she turns her attention to the ways humans and animals share the land, especially as our mutual habitat is changing. Her observations start small, looking out her window at the many living things in just one dead tree in her yard, at the wild turkeys and coyotes in the field. Then she expands to the surrounding forest, to the seaside, and to the lives of her neighbors, many of whom have always made a living off the land or sea.
Whether writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, catching a cricket with her young son, rescuing a fledgling raven, or rejoicing with the town at the return of the alewife migration, Shetterly pays tribute to the resilience that abounds. She argues for a consciousness that honors the values of wilderness, protects the beauty and vigor of rural communities, and teaches our children to love the gifts of the land.” –From the dust jacket
Eleven readers chose 11 books, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday, December 14, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list, please send a request to the email below.

SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
2026-12-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom, Virtual
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 in every school and shelved at every library.” –The Washington Post
Find March in MILS
“March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
Book One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book ‘Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.’ Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.” –From the publisher’s website
Eleven readers chose 11 books, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday, December 14, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list, please send a request to the email below.
