This may also go down as one of the oddest springs on record with record flooding and wind, freezing temperatures and a heat wave in May. Definitely challenging for all the gardeners.
CONGRATULATIONS and Many Thanks to NICK ARCHER for correctly guessing April 14th as 2023 date for our ANNUAL KEOKA LAKE ICE OUT Fundraiser. Nick most kindly and graciously donated back the proceeds. Did you know the library has been keeping track of this event since 1938.
Throughout the year, but especially during the summer, there are opportunities for Community sharing, assistance, and and volunteering. We welcome you to attend an event here at the library, or attend one of the many Community and church events.
Full list of all the various programs and activities are found under 2023 Community Calendar
on our Facebook page, and on the town website: www.waterfordme.org
WATERFORD LIBRARY ANNUAL MEETING Wed. June 14 at 6:30pm
Join us in celebrating the past year. Improvements include new energy efficient Heat Pumps made possible through a generous grant from the Association for Small and Rural Libraries Sustainable & Resilient New England Libraries Grant, and thanks to the Maine Community Foundation and legacy of the Flora Abbott Scholarship Fund, our shelf capacity expanded with the addition of twelve new locally handmade custom bookcases. Another grant from the Maine Public Library Fund is sponsoring three Chewonki Foundation Natural History children's programs this summer. We are so grateful to these major contributors as well as our many loyal patrons, donors, and dedicated volunteers. Refreshments served. All are welcome.
The Waterford Library is delighted to announce that new Heat Pumps were installed in January. This project was made possible by a grant from the Association for Rural & Small Libraries through the generosity of a regional partner foundation. Additional funds provided by private donations and total costs were offset by rebates from effiencyMaine. We are most grateful.
The Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) builds strong communities through professional development and elevating the impact of rural and small libraries. ARSL recognizes the uniqueness of small and rural libraries and is committed to providing an environment that encourages excellence within this community of practice, supporting their goals of service and speaking on behalf of this important constituency. Since 1 in 3 public libraries in the U.S. serve a population of fewer than 2,500 people, there is a great opportunity to support these library professionals that are often overlooked. We believe in the value of rural and small libraries and strive to create resources and services that address national, state, and local priorities for libraries situated in rural communities.
Waterford Library is pleased to announce we will be holding or co-hosting a variety of All-Ages programs over the coming months at the Wilkins House. All welcome
Apr 1 - CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE - an information gathering and sharing session about internet access issues and assistance sponsored by Community Concepts, Maine Connectivity Authority, and Northern Forest. Help us reach those who need assistance most.
Apr 22 - EARTH DAY Celebration and children's "Why I Love the Earth" art show.
May 11 - TERRESTRIAL INVASIVE PLANTS. This is our Annual Shena Fraser Gardening Program. Lauren Pickford of Lakes Environmental Association shares updated information about plants that threaten our native species, and better solutions for your gardens, ground cover, and land.
Maine Public Library Fund Grant Fall 2022
These 3 FREE Chewonki Foundation programs made possible by the Maine Public Library Fund (income tax check-off) as grants available to Maine public libraries and library staff to encourage and support innovation in the creation and expansion of library services.
www.chewonki.org/community/traveling-natural-history-program/WilkinsHouse
May 20 - 11:30am - Bats of the World
12:30pm -Bring your own picnic lunch
1:30pm - Scales and Tails
June 24 - 11:30am - Tide Pools
12:30pm - Bring your own picnic lunch
1:30pm - The Bugmobile
July 22 - 11:30am - Skeletons
12:30pm - Bring your own picnic lunch
1:30pm - Biomimicry
June 1 - FORESTRY and MAINE BIRDS with wildlife ecologist Sally Stockwell of Maine Audubon. She will discuss conservation and management of birds, wildlife and related forestry.
You may have noticed a lot of buzz around the library grounds. In addition to our community vegetable garden, busy volunteers have been busily creating a new pollinator garden to further compliment our new landscaping. A new hedge, and Over 300 new bulbs have been planted already, with much more still in progress. This program is a combined effort of the Waterford Library, Waterford Congregational Church, and Master Gardener Program through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and is entirely funded by public donations.
JUNE 2023 NEW BOOKS
FICTION
The Three of Us, by Ore Agbaje-Williams.
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: Teddy Roosevelt's First Love, by Mary Calvi.
The Paris Library, by Janet Skeslien Charles.
The Guest, by Emma Cline.
The Ferryman, by Justin Cronin.
Mink River, by Brian Doyle
The Years, by Annie Ernaux
Weyward, by Emilia Hart.
Happy Place, by Emily Henry.
When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pineapple Street, by Jenny Jackson.
Code Name Sapphire, by Pam Jenoff.
Invisible Girl, by Lisa Jewell
Watching You, by Lisa Jewell
The Half Moon, by Mary Beth Keane.
Yellowface, by R.F.Kuang.
Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane.
Homecoming, by Kate Morton.
Homestead, by Melinda Moustakis.
Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano.
Jamie MacGillivray : Renegade's Journey, by John Sayles.
Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld.
Symphony of Secrets, by Brendan Slocumb.
Camp Zero, by Michelle Min Sterling.
Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese.
MYSTERY/ SUSPENSE
The Girl by the Bridge: Detective Konrad, by Arnaldur Indridason.
Simply Lies, by David Baldacci.
Crooked House, by Agatha Christie (MBC)
Flash Point, by Tom Clancy.
Broken Light, by Joanne Harris.
The Way of the Bear, by Anne Hillerman.
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me, by William Landay.
The Only Survivors, by Megan Miranda.
Bloodroot - Best New England Crime Stories
London Seance Society, by Sarah Penner.
Standing in the Shadows, by Peter Robinson.
Good Dog, Bad Cop, by David Rosenfelt.
Dark Angel:Letty Davenport, John Sandford.
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine, by Martin Cruz Smith.
NONFICTION
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes, by Tim Brady.
My Many Lives: A Memoire, by Sigrid Kendall
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann.
Got your Number, by Mike Greenberg.
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952, by Cathie Pelletier.
FICTION
Old Babes in the Wood: Margaret Atwood
The Mitford Affair, Marie Benedict
Trust, Hernan Diaz
The Measure, Nikki Erlick
Sam, Allegra Goodman
This Other Eden, Paul Harding
Grady Hendrix: How to Sell a Haunted House
Kate Manning : Gilded Mountain
Someone Else’s Shoes, by Jojo Moyes.
Catherine Newman: We All Want Impossible Things
Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
The End of Drum-Time, Hanna Pylväinen.
Memphis, Tara M. Stringfellow
Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls.
Iris Yamashita: City Under One Roof
MYSTERY SUSPENSE
The Writing Retreat, Julia Bartz
Storm Watch (A Joe Pickett Novel) C. J. Box
Clive Cussler Dark Vector, Graham Brown
Tom Clancy Red Winter, Marc Cameron
I Will Find You, Harlan Coben
Burner (Gray Man), Mark Greaney
The Twyford Code, Janice Hallett
Jane Harper: Exiles
Margot Douaihy: Scorched Grace
Deepti Kapoor: Age of Vice.
Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Dean Koontz: House at the End of the World
Mary Kubica: Just the Nicest Couple
Donna Leon: So You Shall Reap
Peter Lovesey: Showstopper (Diamond #21)
Rebecca Makkah: I Have Some Questions for You
James Patterson: House of Wolves
Preston & Child: The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
Lisa Scottoline: Loyalty
Jesse Q. Sutanto: Vera Wongs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Brad Taylor: The Devil’s Ransom
Shelby Van Pelt: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Charles Todd: The Cliff’s Edge (Crawford #13)
David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts
Jacqueline Winspear: The White Lady
Stuart Woods: Distant Thunder
NONFICTION
Every Day Is a Gift: Tammy Duckworth.
Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: a Young Woman’s Daring Year, Elizabeth Garber
Rough Sleepers: Dr.O’Connells mission to bring healing to the homeless, Tracy Kidder
Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life, Gretchen Legler
The Future Is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today’s Technologies, Bob McDonald.
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard.
Mountain Girl: From Barefoot to the Boardroom, Marilyn Moss Rockefeller
Stacy Schiff: Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
An Assassin in Utopia: True Story of a 19C. Sex Cult and President’s Murder, Susan Wels
NEW JAN. 2023
FICTION
Fredrik Backman: The Winners- Beartown 3
Fredrik Backman: Us Against You-Beartown2
Russell Banks: The Magic Kingdom.
Rhys Bowen: Where the Sky Begins
Andrew Sean Greer: Less Is Lost
Tess Gunty: The Rabbit Hutch
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives
Robert Harris: Act of Oblivion
John Irving: The Last Chairlift
Barbara Kingsolver: Demon Copperhead
Anthony Marra: Mercury Pictures Presents
Cormac McCarthy: Stella Maris
Lydia Millett: Dinosaurs
Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts
Maggie O'Farrell: The Marriage Portrait
Joanna Quinn: The Whalebone Theatre
Jane Smiley: A Dangerous Business
Nicholas Sparks: Dreamland
MYSTERY SUSPENSE
Sarah Addison Allen: Other Birds
David Baldacci: Long Shadows
C. J. Box: Treasure State: Cassie Dewell # 6
Sandra Brown: Overkill
Lee Child and Andrew Child: No Plan B: #27
Michael Connelly: Desert Star
Nelson DeMille: The Maze (8)
Allen Eskens: Forsaken Country
Alice Feeney: Daisy Darker
Vince Flynn /Kyle Mills: Oath of Loyalty #21
Ashley Flowers: All Good People Here
Elly Griffiths: Bleeding Heart Yard
Katy Hays: The Cloisters
Anthony Horowitz: The Twist of a Knife
James Kestrel: Five Decembers.
Ausma Zehanat Khan: Blackwater Falls:
Mike Maden: Clive Cussler’s Hellburner
Val McDermid: 1989
Kyle Mills: Vince Flynn: Oath of Loyalty
J. Patterson & Brendan DuBois: Blowback
Louise Penny: A World of Curiosities
Ian Rankin: Heart Full of Headstones: Rebus
Deanna Raybourn: Killers of a Certain Age
David Rosenfelt: Santa's Little Yelpers #26
John Sandford: Righteous Prey
Karin Slaughter: Girl Forgotten
Scott Turow: Suspect
Lisa Unger: Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
Alaina Urquhart: The Butcher and the Wren
NON FICTION
Winston Groom: The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Winning World War II
Kathryn Miles: Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
Michelle Obama: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.
William Shatner and Joshua Brandon: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
NEW NOV. 2022
FICTION
Sara Nisha Adams: The Reading List.
Mitch Albom: The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Isabel Allende: Violeta
Marie Benedict: Her Hidden Genius.
Jessamine Chan: School for Good Mothers
Jonathan Evison: Small World.
Diana Gabaldron: Tell the Bees I Am Gone
David Guterson: The Final Case
Andrew Lipstein: Last Resort.
Gary Shteyngart: Our Country Friends.
Charmaine Wilkerson: Black Cake.
Tracey Emerson Wood: The Engineer's Wife: A Novel of the Brooklyn Bridge
Hanya Yanagihara: To Paradise.
Chris Bohjalian: The Lioness.
Olivie Blake: The Atlas Six.
Geraldine Brooks: Horse.
NoViolet Bulawayo: Glory.
Meg White Clayton: Postmistress of Paris.
Lee Cole: Groundskeeping.
Jennifer Egan: The Candy House.
David Wright Falade: Black Cloud Rising.
Karen Joy Fowler: Booth.
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry.
Sara Novic: True Biz.
Julie Otsuka: The Swimmers.
Kate Quinn: The Diamond Eye.
Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility.
Rebecca Serle: One Italian Summer.
Adriana Trigiani: The Good Left Undone.
Anne Tyler: French Braid.
Jennifer Weiner: The Summer Place.
Dan Winslow: City on Fire.
MYSTERY
Don Bentley: The Outside Man (Matt Drake)
Rhys Bowen: The Venice Sketchbook
Marc Cameron: Clancy Chain of Command
Dirk Cussler; Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea
Nina de Gramont: The Christie Affair
Lisa Gardner: One Step Too Far. (Frankie Elkin Novel) Joanne Harris: A Narrow Door.
Rachel Hawkins: Reckless Girls
Lisa Jewell: The Night She Disappeared.
Dean Koontz: Quicksilver
Donna Leon: Give unto Others.
J. Patterson & Mike Lupica: Horsewoman
J. Patterson & Dolly Parton: Run, Rose, Run
Preston & Child: Diablo Mesa
Nita Prose: The Maid.
Brad Taylor: End of Days: Pike Logan Novel
Charles Todd: A Game of Fear
David Baldacci: Dream Town.
Lisa Barr: Woman on Fire.
Alicia Bessette: Smile Beach Murders.
C. J. Box: Shadows Reel.
Harlan Coben: The Match.
Ron Corbett: The Sweet Goodbye.
Paul Doiron: Hatchet Island.
Janet Evanovich: The Recovery Agent.
Erica Ferencik: Girl in Ice.
Lucy Foley: The Paris Apartment.
John Grisham: Sparring Partners.
Joanne Harris: A Narrow Door. Backordered
Anne Hillerman: The Sacred Bridge.
Joseph Kanon: The Berlin Exchange.
Laurie R. King: The Beekeeper's Apprentice:
John Lescroart: The Missing Piece.
Brad Meltzer: The Lightning Rod.
Sara Paretsky: Overboard.
Patterson /Barker: Death of Black Widow.
David Rosenfelt: Citizen K-9: K Team
John Sandford: The Investigator.
Lisa Scottoline: What Happened to the Bennetts.
Jesse Q. Sutanto: Dial A for Aunties.
Paul Vidich: The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin. Rosie Walsh: Love of My Life.
Jacqueline Winspear: A Sunlit Weapon.
Stuart Woods: A Safe House.
Stephanie Wrobel: This Might Hurt.
NON FICTION
Daniel James Brown: Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in WW II. Michelle Zauner: Crying in H Mart.
Nikole Hannah-Jones: The 1619 Project:
Quian Julie Wang: Beautiful Country.
Nathaniel Philbrick: Travels with George: In Search of George Washington & His Legacy
CARANCI COLLECTION 2022
Purchased in Memory of Norma M. CARANCI and John A. CARANCI
NONFICTION
Passage to Liberty: Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America - A. Kenneth Ciongoli
La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience- Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale
Nonno tell us a story: Pietrantonio Lombardi
It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories How the People of Italy Defied Horrors of the Holocaust - Elizabeth Bettina
My Two Italies: - Joseph Luzzi
The Gatherings -Shirley Hager
Natures Best Hope - Tallamy
Finding the Mother Tree - Simard
FICTION
The Edelweiss Sisters: - Kate Hewitt
The Only Woman in the Room -Marie Benedict
Setting Free the Bears - John Irving
Eyes of the Dragon - Steven King
Mists of Avalon - Bradley
E BOARD BOOKS
Snuggle Puppy - Boynton
Your Baby’s First Word will be DADA - Fallon
Everything is MAMA - Fallon
Ten Apples up on top - Dr. Seuss
Llamaste + Friends, being kind through Yoga
Goodnight Country Store - Gamble
Don’t Throw That Away - Bergen
The 3 R’s - Roca
The Plastic Problem - Andrus
Recycling is fun - Ghigna
E PICTURE BOOK
Night Tree - Eric Bunting
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
Sam and the Firefly - Eastman
Paddle to the Sea - Holling
500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Dr.Seuss
Old enough to save the Planet - Kirby
J FICTION
The Star Of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson
*****
SANDERSON COLLECTION 2021
Purchased in memory of Cathy Sanderson
Ayad Akhtar: Homeland Elegies
Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & Stories
Rachel Cusk: Outline: (Outline Trilogy, 1)
Rachel Cusk: Transit: (Outline Trilogy, 2)
Rachel Cusk: Kudos: (Outline Trilogy, 3)
Esi Edogyan: Washington Black
Elena Ferrante: The Lying Life of Adults
Mohsin Hamid: Reluctant Fundamentalist
Ursula Hegi: Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
Zora Hurston: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun
Margot Livesey: The Boy in the Field
Thomas Mullen: The Last Town on Earth
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Committed
Sigrid Nunez: The Friend
Sigrid Nunez: What Are You Going Through.
Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
Colm Toibin: Mothers and Sons Stories
Vendela Vida: We Run the Tides: A Novel
NEW KIDS BOOKS SUMMER 2023
LIST COMING SOON
NEW KIDS BOOKS SPRING 2023
E BOARD BOOK
Your nose! :a wild little love song / S.Boynton
Little Blue Truck / Alice Schertie
E PICTURE BOOK
Farmhouse / Sophie Blackall
Cozy / Jan Brett.
Cozy in love / Jan Brett.
Hey Bruce! : an interactive / Ryan T. Higgins.
The little forest keepers / Mary Lindquist.
Snow horses : a first night story / Patricia MacLachlan.
Latkes and applesauce : a Hanukkah story / Fran Manuahkin
Little Blue Truck / Alice Schertle.
Little Blue Truck makes a friend / Alice Schertie
The pigeon will ride the roller coaster! / Mo Willems.
E READER
The frustrating book / Mo Willems.
J EARLY CHAPTER
Narwhalicorn and Jelly (Narwhal & Jelly, #7) / Ben Clanton.
Pizza and Taco : rock out #5) / Stephen Shaken.
J GRAPHIC
InvestiGators : Heist and seek, #6 / John Patrick Green.
Bunnicula : the graphic novel / James Howe.
Frizzy / Claribel A. Ortega.
Cat Kid Comic Club, #4 : Collaborations / Dev Pilkey.
Wings of Fire, #6 : Moon rising / Tui Sutherland.
J FICTION
Amari and the great game, #2 / B.B. Alston.
Ending, #1 : the Last / Katherine Applegate.
Ending, #2 : the First / Katherine Applegate.
Odder / Katherine Applegate.
Inkspell (Inkheart, #2) / Cornelia Funke.
Attack of the black rectangles / Amy Sarin King.
Diaper overlode (Diary of a wimpy kid, #17) / Jeff Kinney.
A rover’s story / Jasmine War.
J BIOGRAPHY / NON-FICTION
The crayon man : true story of invention of Crayola crayons / Natascha Biebow
Listen to the language of trees / Tera Kelley.
Pizza! : a slice of history / Greg Pizzoli.
Full of life : exploring Earth’s biodiversity / Isabel Thomas.
YA FICTION
The final gambit (Inheritance games, #3) / Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
Gleamings / Neal Shusterman.
The first to die at the end / Adam Silvera.
NEW KIDS BOOKS 2022
E BOARD BOOK
McDonald, Jill / Garden time.
E PICTURE BOOK
Archer, Micha / Wonder walkers.
Dewdney, Anna / Everything will be ok.
Fong, Pam / Once upon a forest (wordless) Higgins, Ryan T. / Norman didn’t do it
Kuefler, Joseph / Digger and the duckling.
Kuefler, Joseph/ Digger and the flower.
Sotomayer, Sonia / Just help.
Wenzel, Brendan / Inside cat.
Woodson, Jacqueline / Year we learned to fly.
E EARLY READER
Hills, Tad / Rocket finds an egg.
Tabor, Corey R. / Fox is late.
Tabor, Corey R. / Fox versus winter.
Willems, Mo / Guess what?.
J EARLY CHAPTER
Green, John Patrick / InvestiGators: Brave and bolder, #5.
J FICTION
Higuera, Donna Barba / The last cuentista.
Korman, Gordon / Operation do-over.
McMann, Lisa / Map of flames (forgotten 5).
Paulsen, Gary / Northwind.
Peters, Shawn / unforgettable Logan Foster.
Rubin, Adam / The ice-cream machine. Saeed, Alisha / Omar rising.
J GRAPHIC
Bruel, Nick / Bad Kitty gets a phone.
Gibbs, Stuart / Spy School.
Telgemeir, Raina / Sisters.
Winick,Judd / Hilo: Gina and the big secret.
J BIOGRAPHY / NON-FICTION
Hannah-Jones, Nikole / 1619 Project.
Weatherford, Carole / Unspeakable:Tulsa Race Massacre.
YA FICTION
Gong, Chloe / Our violent ends, #2.
Gong, Chloe / These violent delights, #1.
Gray, Ayana / Beasts of prey, #1.
Kaufman, Amie / Aurora’s end, #3.
Mafi, Tahereh / This woven kingdom, #1.
Schwartz, Dana / Anatomy: a love story.
Sepetys, Ruta / I must betray you.
Thao, Dustin / You reached Sam.