Library News

Artist’s Reception for Sharon Marchi on July 9, 4-7 pm

Please join us as we welcome the summer’s first art show with painter Sharon Marchi, who will be hanging her paintings from Bremen and Havana for the month of July in the library!

A trip to Cuba in 2016 and the beauty of the coast in and around Bremen provide the inspiration for the show.  Each painting represents a moment in time.  After a windstorm in October forced the fishermen to beach their boats in the marsh off Greenland Cove, Marchi was struck by the afternoon light that illuminated the safety of this refuge.  During the Covid shutdown, traps remained stacked on Poland’s  dock well into the summer.  During a spring morning calm, the water mirrored the multicolored traps in perfect clarity.   In Cuba, the colonial architecture and pastel buildings appeal to the artist’s eye.  The Cuban people, however, portray the life of a previous century that still exists: the street cleaner pushing his cart past flaking stucco, the musician entertaining long after Hemingway frequented the bar, and the bicycle taxi driver who is one of many in the city.  Family portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings will be displayed.

We hope to see you there!

The Garden as Landscape

The Bremen Library hosts “The Garden As Landscape” – an afternoon of live painting as
local artists produce works for sale that benefit this community gem amidst the gardens
and vistas of the Medomak River at Miller Point from 1 – 6 PM on Thursday, July 8th.
Rain date is July 9th. Miller Point is at the end of Town Landing Road, Bremen.
Participating plein air painters include Deb Arter, Sarah Fisher, Carolyn Gabbe, Roberta
Goschke, Kathleen Mack, Jorge Pena, Kay Sullivan, Barbara Vanderbilt, Mary Sue
Weeks and Carol Wiley. The studio works by Kim Hetherington will also be on display.
Tickets are $20 and available at the Library at 204 Waldoboro Road in Bremen or online at the following address: https://buytickets.at/bremenlibrary/532812
For more information: Bremen Library 529-5228

Broad Cove Learning POD

The Bremen library is the venue for the ‘Broad Cove Learning Pod’, which includes 13 students in the 6, 7 and 8th grades. Yvonne Gloede, the library director, and the board of trustees invited the group to rent the upstairs meeting room, which is partitioned off from the main library space and the main meeting room. We are glad to be following our mission:
The Bremen Library provides a welcoming place
to encourage lifelong learning, to advance knowledge,
and to strengthen our community
The students meet Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8:00 until 2:00. The room rental agreement contract includes the Maine Centers for Disease Control guidelines for safe practices for schools during the pandemic. The large, bright open meeting space is accessed by a separate door and stairwell and is well suited for the ‘learning pod’. The Bremen Library is grateful for the vision of Elizabeth Noyce, who spearheaded both the building of our 1974 library building with the upstairs meeting room and the 1994 main meeting room addition. Now in 2020 libraries are becoming community hubs. We are thrilled to be able to accommodate these local students. Yvonne Gloede is getting to know the students and their interests in books and is happy that these middle schoolers are taking advantage of everything the library has to offer them.

Wreath Sale

Saturday, November 21st from 9-2 at the Bremen Town House

The Bremen Library Wreath sale will be held at just one location this year, the Bremen Town House on Route 32 next to the Bremen Fire Department. The official day of the sale is Saturday, November 21 from 9-2, but there are opportunities for earlier purchasing. This year for the safety of our customers both decorated and plain wreaths will be available beginning on Friday the 13th through Friday, the 20th. Shoppers can come to the Town House between 9:30 and 10:00 and between 12:00 and 12:30.

Undecorated wreaths are $13 and wreaths decorated with only a bow are $17. Boxes are available for $5. Checks and cash will be accepted.

Wreaths can be shipped and must be ordered by Friday, November 20. Order forms are available at the Bremen Library or online at bremenlibrary.org.

FMI: 529-5572

More New Books

FICTION

Alvarez, Julia – Afterlife

Clark, Julie – The Last Flight

Coates, Mari – The Pelton Papers

Fowler, Therese Anne -A Good Neighborhood

Gaige, Amity – Sea Wife

Henry, Emily – Beach Read

Jenner, Natalie – The Jane Austen Society

Jiles, Paulette – Simon the Fiddler

Joshi, Alka – The Henna Artist

McCreight, Kimberly – A Good Marriage

Shaara, Jeff – To Wake a Giant

Straub, Emma – All Adults Here

NON-FICTION

Tallamy, Douglas W. – Nature’s Best Hope; a new approach to conservation that starts in your yard

DVD’s

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

The Call of the Wild

Ford v Ferrari

Frankie

The Gentlemen

The Lighthouse

Knives Out

Little Women

Ordinary Love

1917

Outlander Seasons 3 & 4

Parasite

Ride Like a Girl

Wildlife

New Titles Just Added to the Collection

FICTION

Allende, Isabel – A Long Petal of the Sea

Anstruther, Eleanor – A Perfect Explanation

Bohjalian, Chris – The Red Lotus

Evaristo, Bernardine – Girl, Woman, Other

Hannah, Sophie – Perfect Little Children

Hilderbrand, Elin – Winter in Paradise

King, Lily – Writers & Lovers

Little, Elizabeth – Pretty as a Picture

Mantel, Hilary – The Mirror & the Light

McCann, Colum – Apeirogon

Phillips, Arthur – The King at the Edge of the World

Preston & Childs – Crooked River

Rose, M.J. – Cartier’s Hope

Searle, Rebecca – In Five Years

DETECTIVE FICTION

Box, C.J. – Long Range

Coben, Harlan – The Boy From the Woods

Kidd, Jess – Things in Jars

Krueger, William Kent – Desolation Mountain

Leon, Donna – Trace Elements

Reichs, Kathy – A Conspiracy of Bones

Rivers, A.J. – The Girl in Cabin 13

Robb. J.D. – Golden in Death

St. James, Simone – The Sun Down Motel

Swanson, Peter – Eight Perfect Murders

Vargas, Fred – The Chalk Circle Man

NON-FICTION

Sifton, Sam – See You on Sunday

Call or email your request. 30 more new books will hit the shelves soon.