Denmark Authors Series 2023 -
2023-08-13 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sally Williams author of Faces of Founders: Hiram, Maine. A conversation about the journey through conceiving your story, writing, editing, pitching your proposed book, publishing your dream book, marketing it, and keeping it alive.
A series of lively conversations with authors
Sunday afternoons at 5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center.
For more information and registration go to denmarkarts.org/events

Mad Science - Family Fun!
2023-08-12 09:45 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Mad Science is coming to the Library August 12 – 9:45-11:00!
This exciting science discovery program is for the whole family – ages 4 – 11 especially. Join us!
https://maine.madscience.org/

Denmark Authors Series 2023 -
2023-07-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sunday, July 23 Bill Roorbach Author of Lucky Turtle “An epic love story and love letter to the West” Kirkus Review
A series of lively conversations with authors
Sunday afternoons at 5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center.
For more information and registration go to denmarkarts.org/events

Book Group - Lessons in Chemistry by Barbara Garmus
2023-07-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
July 11 at 4:00 Lessons in Chemistry by Barbara Garmus
From Goodreads:
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

Book Group - Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
2023-06-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
June 13, at 4:00: Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
“This “stellar read” ( Los Angeles Times ) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father’s employers in early 1900s Colorado.
In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming “Countess” Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.
Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie decides to act.
Drawn from true stories of Colorado history, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants, and is a story imbued with longing—for self-expression and equality, freedom and adventure.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321424-gilded-mountain?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_1

Book Group - Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
2023-05-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
May 9, at 4:00: Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley. “A wonderful feel-good story, especially for anyone whose world, like mine, revolves not around people but around animals. “Patty
“From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals–and a young boy–whose lives intersect in Paris.
Paras, short for “Perestroika,” is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and–she’s a curious filly–wanders all the way to the City of Light. She’s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn’t afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city’s lush green spaces, nourished by Frida’s strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself? Jane Smiley’s beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578294-perestroika-in-paris?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZSZJsNZdtW&rank=1

Book Group - Lucky Turtle by Bill Roorbach
2023-04-11 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
Bill Roorbach is back with an immersive love story of two kindred souls
in a world determined to tear them apart.
When Cindra Zoeller, sixteen, is sent to a reform camp in Montana,
she’s a young, privileged white girl who has evaded more severe
punishment for her crime. Even at Camp Challenge, she gets
special treatment, unlike the punishment many of the girls face. She
becomes transfixed by Lucky, a watchful, capable, and mysterious camp
employee, and as the connection between them grows stronger, Lucky
and Cindra quickly become lovers. They escape into the Rocky
Mountains and create an idyllic life, living off Lucky’s vast knowledge of
the wilderness.
But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the
consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together—and
circumstances shaped by skin color—will keep them apart for decades.
Lucky goes to prison, and Cindra finds herself in a cosseted and
carefully surveilled life, circumscribed by a man who claims to be her
rescuer. But for Cindra, there will never be another Lucky, and she
knows she must find him, the only man she's ever fully trusted, her
soulmate.
For readers of Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, and John Irving, Lucky
Turtle is a deeply engrossing love story from one of our most
entertaining and perceptive writers." Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56271459-lucky-
turtle?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13

Book Group -The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
2023-03-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
March 14 at 4:00, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection.
But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.
The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

Good Reads

Coffee Cafe
2023-03-03 09:00 - 11:00 | ME
Friday, March 3 from 9 -11 am!
We have decided to hold the Denmark Library Coffee Cafés on the
FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH.
We are eager to see you March 3.
Mark your calendar!
Come and and join us for a hot cuppa, delicious treats, and good conversation.
Bring your friends, meet your neighbors. Everyone welcome!
Masks are welcome. COVID vaccinations are encouraged.
The Denmark Public Library is located at 121 E. Main St,
Denmark • (207) 452-04022

Book Group - All That She Carried
2023-02-14 16:00 - 17:00 | ME
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.
WINNER: PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, John Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly
“A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language.
Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today

Book Group - Night of the Living Rez
2023-01-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Book group – Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight—breathes life into tales of family and community bonds as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s projects the past onto her grandson, and thinks he is her dead brother come back to life; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs.
In a collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of a Native community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction.

Coffee Cafe
2023-01-06 09:00 - 11:00 | 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
