Coffee Cafe
2023-01-06 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Join us for coffee, refreshments, and good conversation.
Bring your friends, meet your neighbors.
Everyone is welcome!

Coffee Café
2022-12-30 09:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States

Coffee Cafe
2022-12-16 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-12-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Every Friday (except 12/23)
Join us for coffee, refreshments, and good conversation.
Bring your friends, meet your neighbors.
Everyone is welcome!

Masks optional, COVID Vaccinations encouraged

Book Group Holiday Gathering -The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michelle Richards.
2022-12-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States

Coffee Café
2022-12-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States

Book Group - My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black by Terry Roberts
2022-11-08 08:00 - 17:00 | ME
November 8: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black by Terry Roberts
“Ellis Island, 1920. New York Harbor’s immigration and public health authorities are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island.
Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. Yet when he arrives at the isolation hospital, he discovers an inexplicable string of deaths and disappearances among immigrant patients…and a staff that seems to be hiding a chilling secret. Stephen finds an ally in Lucy Paul, an undercover nurse who is also investigating the mysterious incidents. Together, they begin to unearth a horrifying conspiracy masked beneath the hospital’s charitable exterior. As Stephen and Lucy get closer to the truth and each other, they are swept directly into the danger haunting Ellis Island and become the next targets themselves.
Amidst growing racial tensions in the wake of World War I, My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black explores the disturbing lengths to which people will go to protect racial purity and condemn those they fear.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56638015-my-mistress-eyes-are-raven-black?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16

Denmark Authors Series - Jacques J. Rancourt
2022-10-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Denmark Authors Series EXTENDED!
SATURDAY, Oct 15 at 3:00 at the Denmark Arts Center

The Denmark Authors Series has been extended!
SATURDAY, Oct 15 at 3:00 at the DAC
Join us for an afternoon with poet Jacques J. Rancourt and his full-length collection, Brocken Spectre. This reading will be on a Saturday different from our usual Sunday presentations. It’s a Books & Beer type of season – sit back, sip and savor the spoken word. Concessions are available.
Jacques J. Rancourt was born in southern Maine and spent his formative years in an off-the-grid cabin near the mouth of the 100-mile wilderness, the Appalachian Trail’s northern terminus. He attended the University of Maine at Farmington, where he received a B.A. in English and a B.F.A. in Creative Writing. Rancourt earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His first full-length collection, Novena, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, selected by Hadara Bar-Nadav, and was published in 2017 from Pleiades Press. A chapbook of poems, In the Time of PrEP, was published the following year as the inaugural title in the Chad Walsh chapbook series from the Beloit Poetry Journal. His second full-length collection, Brocken Spectre, is an editor’s choice selection for the Alice James Award and was published in 2021.
He has published individual poems in magazines such as AGNI, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and ZYZZYVA. His work has been featured in Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in the Best of the Net and Best New Poets anthologies.
Jacques is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a five-month residency from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.
Support for the Authors Series comes from an Anonymous Angel, Bridgton Books, and guests like you.
Events are held at the Denmark Arts Center,
50 W. Main St. Denmark, ME, 207-452-2412
Authors Series Events are pay-what-you-can.
For more information and reservations go to denmarkarts.org.
The Denmark Authors Series is a collaboration between the Denmark Arts Center, the Public Library and the Historical Society. It is sponsored by Bridgton Books.

Book Group - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
2022-10-11 08:00 | ME
October 11: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
“In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O’Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school.
After committing a terrible crime, Odie and Albert are forced to flee for their lives along with their best friend, Mose, a mute young man of Sioux heritage. Out of pity, they also take with them a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy. Together, they steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi in search for a place to call home.
Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphan vagabonds journey into the unknown, crossing paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, bighearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25813942-this-tender-land?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=8a1X9z74bB&rank=1

Denmark Authors Series - Phuc Tran
2022-09-25 15:00 - 16:30 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
From a Vietnamese immigrant in Portland
The Denmark Authors Series is a collaboration between the Denmark Arts Center, the Public Library, and the Historical Society.
The Denmark Arts Center is located at 50 West Maine St, Denmark, 207 452-2412.

Denmark Authors Series - Morgan Talty
2022-09-18 15:00 - 16:30 | ME
Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Res
What it means to be Penobscot in Maine – to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
The Denmark Authors Series is a collaboration between the Denmark Arts Center, the Public Library, and the Historical Society.
The Denmark Arts Center is located at 50 West Maine St, Denmark, 207 452-2412.

Book Group - The Flower Boat Girl: A novel based on a true story of the woman who became the most powerful pirate in history by Larry Feign
2022-08-09 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
“Her father traded away her youth.
Sea bandits stole her freedom.
She has one way to get them back:
Become the most powerful pirate in the world.”
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57874519-the-flower-boat-girl?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=iCtdFVY0ru&rank=1

Children's Summer Program
2022-08-03 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-07-27 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-07-20 09:30 - 10:30 | ME
“Oceans of Possibilities” each Wednesday at 9:30 AM we will read books and do a craft to take home. Children of all ages are welcome. We will meet outside – so only when the weather permits. June 28th through August 3rd. FMI 452-2200

Denmark Authors Series - Gigi Georges
2022-07-31 15:00 - 16:30 | ME
Gigi Georges, author of DownEast: 5 Maine Girls and Unseen rural America
Teenage girls are caught between tradition and transformation through journeys of heartbreak and hope.
The Denmark Authors Series is a collaboration between the Denmark Arts Center, the Public Library, and the Historical Society.
The Denmark Arts Center is located at 50 West Maine St, Denmark, 207 452-2412.

Denmark Authors Series - Robin Clifford Wood
2022-07-17 15:00 - 16:30 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Robin Clifford Wood, author of The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
A book about beauty—on a Maine island, in friendship, love, and heartbreak.

Children's Summer Program
2022-07-13 09:30 - 10:30 | ME
“Oceans of Possibilities” each Wednesday at 9:30 AM we will read books and do a craft to take home. Children of all ages welcome. We will meet outside – so only when weather permits. June 28th through August 3rd. FMI 452-2200

Book Group - The Last Green Valley by Mark T. Sullivan
2022-07-12 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
“A historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph. In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West, the Martels’ story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized.”
Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54362408-the-last-green-valley?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=J82r6JCFBr&rank=1

Book Group - The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood
2022-06-14 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
“Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel’s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel’s history. The journey into Rachel’s world took Wood further than she ever dreamed possible, unveiling a life fraught with challenge, and buried by tragedy, and yet incandescent with joy.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55509620-the-field-house?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=GS2UxVaDk4&rank=2

Plant Sale
2022-05-28 09:00 - 13:00 | ME
Spring is here and time to make those gardens grow!!! Come to our 30th Annual Plant Sale and find some new goodies for your garden. Some great raffle items this year!

Book Group - The Age of Innocence or The House of Mirth, By Edith Wharton
2022-05-10 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
Either or Both – We wanted to delve into something written 100 years ago.

“Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” From Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53835.The_Age_of_Innocence?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZixUPJmsvJ&rank=1

“First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.” From Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZixUPJmsvJ&rank=2

Shredathon -Shredding Fundraiser for Local Libraries to Be Held on May 7
2022-05-07 08:00 - 12:00 | First Congregational Church, 35 South High St., Brighton, 04009, United States
Got documents to shred? Here is your chance. Donations for the shredding with benefit local libraries. All paper will be recycled.

Six libraries in the lakes region of Maine have joined together to sponsor a community shredding event on May 7 from 8a.m. to 12 noon at the First Congregational Church in Bridgton (33 S. High St.). Money raised in this fundraiser will benefit the participating libraries in Bridgton, Casco, Denmark, Fryeburg, Harrison and Sebago.
At a time when scams and identity theft are all too common, the Shredathon will assure that all your confidential documents have been safely destroyed by a certified document destruction company. All of the paper will be recycled; none will be going to a landfill.
People bringing their confidential papers to be shredded will be reassured by seeing their documents shredded immediately after dropping them into secure receptacles. Certificates of Destruction are available on request.
It is not necessary to remove any metal clips or file hangers. Paper to be shredded can be put into any type of box or bag. The suggested donation is $15 for the amount of paper that would fit into a standard Banker’s Box. A standard Banker’s Box measures 12” W x 10”H x 15” D.
The event is drive-through; no appointments are needed. The Shredathon is open to both individuals and businesses. For further information, please contact a participating library or Joanne Cohn at 617-306-1956.

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
2022-04-12 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
“In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother is long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.” From Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57109107-the-lincoln-highway?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=VOcxKBLNyj&rank=1

Scavenger Hunt
2022-04-04 - 2022-04-11 | ME
Denmark Library Scavenger Hunt THIS WEEK!!

To celebrate National Library Week – April 3 -9 – we are exploring libraries in the area. Denmark Library, along with the other local libraries, is taking part in the “Connect With Your Library” scavenger hunt.
The Libraries in Denmark, Bridgton, Fryeburg, and Charlotte Hobbs in Lovell have joined in creating clues patrons have to find the answers to at each Library.

Pick up and drop off completed scavenger cards at any of the libraries for your chance to win the Grand Prize: A gift basket with maple syrup from Fly Away Farm in Lovell, and gift cards to the Chocolate House in Bridgton, Jimbob’s in Denmark, and Fair Grounds Coffee in Fryeburg. Cards are due by April 11 and the winner will be notified by April 13.

Come, join the fun and find out about our local libraries!

When Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams - Book Group Meeting
2022-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
When Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams
A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. It is a cunningly crafted, sophisticated novel, layered with myriad twists and a vibrant cast of characters. Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction. From Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58412141-when-justice-sleeps?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1iVrusD2iZ&rank=

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - Book Group Meeting
2022-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. From Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/…/43721059-the-night-watchman…

Fierce Little Thing by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore - Book Group Meeting
2021-12-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Fierce Little Thing
THE EXCITING NEWS IS THAT THE AUTHOR, MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE, IS PLANNING TO JOIN US VIA ZOOM!
PLEASE BE SURE TO BRING YOUR QUESTIONS! We will be talking about her newest novel: Fierce Little Thing which is set here in Denmark! You can read reviews, including one in the New York Times, here: http://mirandabw.com/books/fierce-little-thing/
From Goodreads: “Saskia is a damaged, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She is taken with Abraham, Home’s charismatic leader, Abraham. The four other teens who lived there become her best and only friends. Two decades later, Saskia is shuttered in her Connecticut estate, estranged from the others.
From vastly different lives, the five return to confront their blackmailer and reckon with the horror that split them apart. How far will they go to bury their secret forever?”
