Get Ready for Maine Festival of the Book

The Maine Festival of the Book 2012 will be held March 29-April 1 in Portland, with a full day of free literary programming for all ages at the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine on Saturday, March 31. More than 75 authors, artists and performers with programs designed for all ages and interests. With the exception of Opening Night, events are free and unticketed.

Festival 2011 was a great success with more than 2000 attendees. In its five years of existence, the Maine Festival of the Book has featured more than 200 authors, including five Pulitzer Prize winners and two National Book Award winners.

The Maine Festival of the Book is held annually in April in Portland. If you would like to see what Festivals 2007-2011 were about go to Past Festivals or hear recordings of selected festival programs on the Web site of Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Maine Humanities Council. Past presenters include David McCullough, Richard Ford, David Baldacci, Tess Gerritsen, Crystal Zevon, Wes McNair, Brian Wood, Jane Brox, Maxine Kumin, Anita Shreve, Stewart O'Nan, Julia Glass, Paul Harding, and Elizabeth Strout.

Learn more about the Maine Reads Community Literacy project, a grants initiative offering funding to libraries for community and literacy building.

Learn more about Read With ME., a state-wide literacy outreach program that brings books to every kindergartener in Maine. This year's featured Read With ME. book is The Very Best Bed written and illustrated by Rebekah Raye of Blue Hill, Maine.

We are grateful for the support of our sponsors.

Sponsors

Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation

(Grant Recipient)

FairPoint Communications * Law Offices of Joe Bornstein

Casella Waste * MaineHealth * Portland Magazine * Camden National Bank * UNUM

Maine Arts Commission * Pine State Trading

T-Mobile USA * TD Bank * First Wind * National Semiconductor

Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems * Bangor Hydro Electric Company

Fairchild Semiconductor * AT&T * Plum Creek * U.S. Cellular

Martin’s Point Health Care * L.L. Bean * Maine Credit Union League * Portland Harbor Hotel

Orchard Foundation * Maine Humanities Council * Bernstein Shur * Barber Foods

Bangor Savings Bank * Delta Dental * Isamax Snacks * Shipyard Brewing Company

Maine Office of Tourism

Media Sponsors

Maine Public Broadcasting Network * Portland Magazine * MaineToday Media Inc.

The Forecaster * Bangor Daily News

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Maine Festival of the Book 2011 Opening Night Host Committee

Former Governor of Maine John E. Baldacci

and First Lady of Maine Karen M. Baldacci

Justin and Rachael Alfond

Tom and Diana Allen

Susan Austin

Jim and Kathy Case

Sarah Cecil

Tom and Kate Chappell

Richard and Deborah Connor

Madeleine G. Corson

Beth Edmonds

Jacob and Tess Gerritsen

Leon and Lisa Gorman

Cyrus and Patty Hagge

Stephanie Hart

Shirley Helfrich

Nathanial Hull

Pam Joy

Jim Mitchell

Amos and Lola Orcutt

Michael Reed

Neil and Carla Rolde

Lanelle Roussel

Richard and Barbara Russo

Colin Sargent and Dr. Nancy Sargent

Lizz Sinclair

Pat Smus

Celeste Viger

(As of March 20, 2011)

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click here to go to the Festival Website

For tickets to Opening Night 2012 (program to be announced), use our secure online service or by check, mail in a ticket order form.

Join Us for "Bangor Reads Bangor"

Bangor Reads Bangor 2012
JANUARY MARKS TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF “BANGOR READS” at BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Bangor Reads, a celebration of literature. This year’s theme is Bangor Reads Bangor. It is easy to get involved - just read a book connected to our fair city and join the discussions at the Bangor Public Library or in your local book group. Library Director, Barbara McDade, loves how Bangor Reads brings people and books together. She says, “people on the street can talk to each other about books when they are in line at the grocery store, while waiting for an elevator, or when taking a break from shoveling snow. This year books show that Bangor is a city worth reading and talking about.”

Spaced throughout the month, programs each week target a different age and interest.

Think you know the history of Bangor? Bill Cook will lead a panel with Richard Shaw and Wayne Riley on The History of Bangor on Friday, January 13, from 3-5 pm.

Fiction aficionados will enjoy the Bangor Fiction discussion, facilitated by Margery Irvine from 6:30 – 8:00 on Tuesday, January 17th.

Teens will discuss the best of Stephen King’s works with a teen panel on Wednesday, January 25th, from 5:00 - 6:00 pm.

The Goody Gang will read Bangor Books for Kids (Kindergarten to second grade) on January 30th from 3:30-4:15 pm, followed by a goody, Maine’s famous whoopie pie.

With sessions covering all age ranges and a variety of available time slots, Bangor Reads Bangor celebrates books and people from our city. Over seventy works involve the city, either as a setting, subject or as the author’s hometown. A complete list of books can be found at the Library


Bangor Books
Children’s Books
The Last Boy on Earth by Thomas Burby JUVMEB88507.l YA 2011
Happy Hollow Stories by Judge Tortoise by Bea Goodrich JUVME G585.h 1989
Tartabull’s Throw by Henry Garfield JUVMEG18488.t YA 2001
The Fun Farm by Mary Ann Hatch JUVH2815.f 1968
From Bangor to Bull Run by Anita Kurth JUVME K967.f 1979
The Lightkeeper’s Key by Angeli Perrow JUVMEP4177.l 2009
Lost in Bangor by Angela Webber JUVME 398.8.W3852.l
Glory at Gettysburg: the Story of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Anita Kurth JUVME B.C354.Kg 1979
The Day the White Whales Came to Bangor by Gerald Hausman JUVME974.131.B224.d 1979
Down East to Bangor by Julia Eaton JUVME 1973 974.131.E14.d

Adult Fiction (check for other titles by these authors)
Secrets of the Undead by Camara Bragdon B7339.s 2011
Mystical Warrior by Janet Chapman C36646.my 2011
Wicked Good by Amy Faircloth F1617.w 2011
Bangor by Gardner Patterson P2765.b 2002
Abbott’s Reach by Ardeana Hamlin H18101.a 2011
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill H55142.h 2007
It by Stephen King K5876.i 1986
Caretakers by Tabitha King K5878.c 1984
Desire Lines: a novel by Christine Baker Kline K68615.d 1999
Insanity, Inc. by Carolyn McKinnon M19962.i 1996
Of Men and Their Mothers by Mameve Medwed M46853.o 2008
Healing Love by Helen Nichols N5166.h 1994
Pirate Shirt Dot Com by Shannon Risk R4896.p 2007
The Ideal, Genuine Man by Don Robertson (foreward by Stephen King) R54393.i 1987
Fifth Avenue (1st in Fifth Avenue Series) by Christopher Smith Digital and Kindle/Amazon
Lulu’s Back in Town by Perley Thibodeau T3444.l 2010
The Strange Woman by Ben Ames Williams W667.st 1941

Bangor History – Businesses and Organizations
Seven Books in a Footlocker: a Commemorative History of the Bangor Public Library 027.4741.S497.s 1998
Here for Generations: the Story of a Maine Bank and Its City by Dean Lawrence Lunt 332.21.L9737.h 2002
N. H. Bragg & Sons: 150 Years of Service to the Maine Community and Economy 1854-2004
by Trudy Irene Scee 338..642.S289.n 2005
The Eastern Maine Medical Center: a History; the First One Hundred Years by Maynard Beach 362.11.B353.e 1996
The Inmates and the Asylum: the Bangor Children’s Home, 1835-2002 by Trudy Irene Scee 362.73.S289.i 2002 DNC
75 Years: the Bangor and Aroostook by B and A Railroad Company 385.B224 1966 folio shelf
Old Veazie Railroad, 1836; one of America’s very first Railroads, a vignette of local history…
by Bob Cardin JUVME 385.09741.C1795.o
Bangor’s Street Railway by Charles Heseltine 621.33.H455.b 1974
Mount Hope Cemetery: a Twentieth-Century History
by Trudy Irene Scee 719.S289.m 1999
A Twentieth Century History, WBRC Architects, Engineers 1902-2002 720.922.T9184.t 2001

Bangor History
City on the Penobscot: a Comprehensive History of Bangor, ME by Trudy Irene Scee 974.131.2 2010
Bangor Volume II, the Twentieth Century by Comp. Richard Shaw JUV974.131.B224.l 1997
An Illustrated History of the City of Bangor, ME
by James Vickery 974.131.B224.i 1969
The Story of Bangor; a Brief History 974.131.B224.s 1999
Remembering Bangor:The Queen City Before the Great Fire by Wayne Reilly 974.131.R2734.r 2009
Bangor in Vintage Postcards by Richard Shaw 974.131.S535.b 2004
Woodsmen and Whigs: Historic Images of Bangor, Maine by Abigail Ewing Zelz F974.131.Z398.w 1991
History of Penobscot County; The Annals of Bangor by John E. Godfrey 974.131.1 p. 515-916
The Lower Penobscot River Region by Richard R. Shaw 974.104.S535.l 1996

Bangor Memoirs and Journals
Bangor, Maine: a Memoir 1953-1969 by Jordan Steven Alpert 974.131.A546.b 1996
The Journals of John Edwards Godfrey ed. James Vickery 974.131.B224.j
3 vols.
If the Walls Could Talk by Margo Cobb 974.131.C634.i 1999

Bangor Architecture
Bangor, Maine 1769-1914: An Architectural History F974.131.T372.b
by Deborah Thompson 1988

Literature
Soul of Hepatica Hill: Creativity at BMHI 810.8.S722 2001
Entering Earthquake Country by Kathleen Ellis 811.54.E4704.e 2001
Lion in the Heather by Ralph Lowe 811.59.L9507.l 1972
Diary: Based on a True Story by Shane Layman 813.54.L4542.d 2005
A Baker’s Nichel by William S. Cohen 811.54.C6608.b 1986

Bangor Biographies
My Bangor Years: a Reminiscence by Lois Griffin Barnes B.B26265.Bm 2005
Simply the Best: the Cindy Blodgett Story, the Making of a High School Phenom by Ron Brown B.B6218.Bs 1994
Allie Cole: a Maine Pioneer by Galen Cole B.C674.Ca 1980
As a Practical Matter: Galen Cole a Biography by Lowell Kjenstad B.C6744.Ka 1996
The Minister’s Daughter: a Time-Exposure Photograph of the Years of 1903-4 by Frances Knickerbocker B.K741.km 1974
Rev. Seth Noble: a Revolutionary War Soldier’s Promise of America and the Founding of Bangor, Maine by Carol Fisher Smith B.N6687.sr 2010
Cracked Marbles: Life’s Lessons for a Maine Surgeon by Tom Palmer B.P18287.Pc 2008
The Potter’s Wheel: the Life Sstory of Lillian F. Wall
by Betsy Alexander B.W1547.Ap 1979

Bangor and War
Second to None: the Story of the 2d Maine Volunteer Infantry: “the Bangor Regiment” by James H. Mundy 973.7441.M923.s 1992
Fanny and Joshua: the Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
by Diane Monroe Smith B.C3545.Sf 1999
The 22nd Maine Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: a History and Roster by Ned Smith 973.7441.S6555.t
An American Homecoming by Brian Swartz 956.7044.S973.a 1996
Quiet Courage: Stories of the Unselfish Dedication of Maine Veterans by Don Colson 974.1.C7197.q 2007

Other Subjects-Art, Jews, African Americans, Sports, Teaching
Optimize Your Life!: The One-Page Strategic Planner
by Bernhoff A. Dahl (2008 ed. with workbook) 158.1.D1374.o 2003
My Life Between the Cross and the Bars by George R. Castillo 285.8.C278.m 1996
Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities by Judith S. Goldstein 305.8.G578.c 1992
Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950 by Maureen Lee Elgersman 305.896.L5142.b 2005
Canoeing by Zip Kellogg 974.108.K291.c 1983 v.1,2,3
Penitence: a True Story by Edward Armstrong 364.1.A735.p 1994
The Three-Legged Woman & Other Excursions in Teaching by Robert Klose 378.125.K696.t 2010
History of the Maine Woods by Philip Tripp Coolidge 634.9.C778.h 1963
Back to the Drawing Board: Bangor Women
Artists 1880-1915 709.741.B126.b 1993
The Logbook of the Captain’s Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas by John S. Sewall 915.2.S5121.l 1905
Ktaadn Trails: Lucius Merrill and the Paths to Katahdin by Richard W. Judd, captions by Edward Zip Kellogg 917.41.J885.k 2005
A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861-1960 by David C. Smith 674.S645.h 1972
The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found by Don Snyder 331.13.S675.c 1997
Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine by Richard W. Judd 338.1J885.a 1989