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Calendar

Teacher Programs

March 8, 2010

Born To Read

Peaceable Stories, training

Location and Time: Warren Community School, Warren, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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New Books, New Readers

March 8, 2010

Site: Bangor
Series: Justice
This Session: Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush by Demi
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson

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Let's Talk About It

March 9, 2010

Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers

Series: Detective Fiction in the 20th Century: A Notion of Evil
Location and Time: Witherle Memorial Library, Castine 7:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Teacher Programs

March 9, 2010

Born To Read

Peaceable Stories, training

Location and Time: Farmingdale, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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Let's Talk About It

March 10, 2010

Fly Rod Crosby: The Woman Who Marketed Maine by Julia A. Hunter and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

Series: Defining Wilderness, Defining Maine
Location and Time:Pittsfield Public Library, Pittsfield, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

March 11, 2010

Site: Skowhegan - Somerset County Jail, Women
Series: Community
This Session: Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

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Winter Weekend

March 12 & 13, 2010

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Location and Time: Bowdoin College

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March 15, 2010

Born To Read

Peaceable Stories, training

Location and Time: Warren Community School, Warren, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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Let's Talk About It

March 17, 2010

The Girl Who Would Be Russian by Willis Johnson

Series: Making a Life, Shaping an Identity: Ethnic Americans in Maine
Location and Time: Rangeley Public Library, Rangeley, 10 a.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

March 17, 2010

Site: Bucksport
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting
Who Will Tell My Brother by Marlene Carvell

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New Books, New Readers

March 18, 2010

Site: Ellsworth
Series: Courage
This Session: Introduction

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New Books, New Readers

March 18, 2010

Site: Bangor - Women's Reentry Center
Series: Conflict
This Session: The Lion's Share: A Somali Folklore by Said Salah Ahmed
Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu by Emily Arnold McCully
The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac

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New Books, New Readers

March 18, 2010

Site:Madawaska
Series: Resolving Conflict
This Session: Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Eagle Song by Joseph Bruchac

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New Books, New Readers

March 19, 2010

Site: Bangor - Penobscot County Jail, Women
Series: Justice
This Session: Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush by Demi
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson

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New Books, New Readers

March 20, 2010

Site: Bangor - Penobscot County Jail, Men
Series: Justice
This Session: Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush by Demi
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson

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New Books, New Readers

March 22, 2010

Site: Biddeford
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: One Candle by Eve Bunting
As Long as the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden
I'm Still Scared by Tomie dePaola

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Let's Talk About It

March 23, 2010

The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker

Series: Detective Fiction in the 20th Century: A Notion of Evil
Location and Time: Witherle Memorial Library, Castine 7:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Teacher Programs

March 23, 2010

Born To Read

Peaceable Stories, training

Location and Time: Farmingdale, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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Let's Talk About It

March 23, 2010

Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman

Series: Refreshing the Whodunit
Location and Time: Berwick Public Library, Berwick, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

March 23, 2010

Site: Skowhegan
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: One Candle by Eve Bunting
As Long as the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden
I'm Still Scared by Tomie dePaola

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Let's Talk About It

March 24, 2010

Biography of a Runaway Slave (Esteban Montejo)

by Miguel Barnet

Series: So Near and Yet So Far: Cuban Literature
Location and Time: Norway Memorial Library, Norway 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

March 24, 2010

Site: Fort Kent
Series: Resolving Conflict
This Session: Introduction

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New Books, New Readers

March 30, 2010

Site:Waterville
Series: Justice
This Session: The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
Old Henry by Joan Blos
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Let's Talk About It

April 1, 2010

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

Series: Across Cultures and Continents: Literature of the South Asian Experience
Location and Time: Kennebunk Free Library, Kennebunk 6:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

April 1, 2010

Site: Belfast - Maine Coast Regional Reentry Center
Series: Conflict
This Session: It's Mine by Leo Lionni
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith

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New Books, New Readers

April 1, 2010

Site: York
Series: Giving
This Session: Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Three Questions by Jon Muth

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New Books, New Readers

April 1, 2010

Site: York
Series: Giving
This Session: Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Three Questions by Jon Muth

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Let's Talk About It

April 6, 2010

In the Cold of the Malecon & Other Stories by Antonio José Ponte

Series: So Near and Yet So Far: Cuban Literature
Location and Time: Norway Memorial Library, Norway, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

April 6, 2010

Site: Belfast
Series: Real Life
This Session: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman

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Let's Talk About It

April 7, 2010

Canuck and Other Stories edited by Rhea Cote Robbins

Series: Making a Life, Shaping an Identity: Ethnic Americans in Maine
Location and Time: Rangeley Public Library, Rangeley, 10 a.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

April 12, 2010

Site: Biddeford
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: Sacajawea: Her True Story by Joyce Milton
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman for President by Lynn Plourde

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New Books, New Readers

April 12, 2010

Site: Bangor
Series: Justice
This Session: The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
Old Henry by Joan Blos
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Let's Talk About It

April 13, 2010

The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison

Series: Refreshing the Whodunit
Location and Time: South Berwick Town Hall, South Berwick, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

April 13, 2010

Site: Skowhegan
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: Sacajawea: Her True Story by Joyce Milton
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman for President by Lynn Plourde

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Let's Talk About It

April 14, 2010

Campfires Rekindled by George Kephart

Series: Defining Wilderness, Defining Maine
Location and Time:Pittsfield Public Library, Pittsfield, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

April 14, 2010

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Series: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today?
Location and Time: Wells Public Library, Wells, 6:15 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

April 14, 2010

Site: Bucksport
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: One Candle by Eve Bunting
As Long as the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden
I'm Still Scared by Tomie dePaola

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New Books, New Readers

April 16, 2010

Site: Bangor - Penobscot County Jail, Women
Series: Justice
This Session: The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
Old Henry by Joan Blos
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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New Books, New Readers

April 17, 2010

Site: Bangor - Penobscot County Jail, Men
Series: Justice
This Session: The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
Old Henry by Joan Blos
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Let's Talk About It

April 20, 2010

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García

Series: So Near and Yet So Far: Cuban Literature
Location and Time: Norway Memorial Library, Norway, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

April 29, 2010

Site:Madawaska
Series: Resolving Conflict
This Session: The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale by Baba Wagué Diakaité
Mr. Lincoln's Way by Patricia Polacco
Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd

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Public Programs

April 30, 2010

Location and Time: University of Southern Maine, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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Let's Talk About It

May 4, 2010

Havana Red by Leonardo Padura

Series: So Near and Yet So Far: Cuban Literature
Location and Time: Norway Memorial Library, Norway, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

May 4, 2010

Site: Belfast
Series: Real Life
This Session: "Could Be Worse" by James Stevenson
Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

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New Books, New Readers

May 4, 2010

Site:Waterville
Series: Justice
This Session: Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry G. Allard
A Bargain for Francess by Russell Hoban
Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice

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New Books, New Readers

May 5, 2010

Site: Bucksport
Series: Carrying the Past
This Session: Sacajawea: Her True Story by Joyce Milton
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman for President by Lynn Plourde

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May 6, 2010

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Series: Across Cultures and Continents: Literature of the South Asian Experience
Location and Time: Kennebunk Free Library, Kennebunk 6:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

May 6, 2010

Site: Belfast - Maine Coast Regional Reentry Center
Series: Conflict
This Session: The Lion's Share: A Somali Folktale by Said Salah Ahmed
Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu by EMily Arnold McCully
The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac

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May 11, 2010

A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow

Series: Refreshing the Whodunit
Location and Time: D.A. Hurd Library, North Berwick, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

May 11, 2010

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Series: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today?
Location and Time: Wells Public Library, Wells, 6:15 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

May 12, 2010

We Took To The Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich

Series: Defining Wilderness, Defining Maine
Location and Time:Pittsfield Public Library, Pittsfield, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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New Books, New Readers

May 14, 2010

Site: Bangor - Penobscot County Jail, Women
Series: Justice
This Session: Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry G. Allard
A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban
Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice

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New Books, New Readers

May 15, 2010

Site: Bangor - Penobscot County Jail, Men
Series: Justice
This Session: Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry G. Allard
A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban
Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice

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New Books, New Readers

June 1, 2010

Site: Belfast
Series: Real Life
This Session: Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams

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Let's Talk About It

June 8, 2010

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Series: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today?
Location and Time: Wells Public Library, Wells, 6:15 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Board Meeting

June 10 & 11, 2010

Location: Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport

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Let's Talk About It

June 23, 2010

The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

Series: Liberating Imaginations: Readings in Modern Irish Fiction
Location and Time: Naples Public Library, Naples, 1:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

July 7, 2010

The Collected Stories by John McGahern

Series: Liberating Imaginations: Readings in Modern Irish Fiction
Location and Time: Naples Public Library, Naples, 1:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

July 13, 2010

The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

Series: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today?
Location and Time: Wells Public Library, Wells, 6:15 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

July 21, 2010

Antarctica by Claire Keegan

Series: Liberating Imaginations: Readings in Modern Irish Fiction
Location and Time: Naples Public Library, Naples, 1:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

August 4, 2010

A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle

Series: Liberating Imaginations: Readings in Modern Irish Fiction
Location and Time: Naples Public Library, Naples, 1:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Let's Talk About It

August 10, 2010

Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age by David Richards

Series: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today?
Location and Time: Wells Public Library, Wells, 6:15 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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Board Meeting

October 21 & 22, 2010

Location: Margaret Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan

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Board Meeting

January 27 & 28, 2011

Location: Portland Public Library, Portland

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