Book Reviews

Maine Readers’ High Demand Hold List- March

March 11, 2020

What are your fellow Mainers wanting to read these days? Here is the “High Demand Hold List” from Maine libraries in our shared catalog system-MINERVA. Print Books 1)      The Dutch House (Patchett) – 194 holds . . . read more »

NYTimes Best Books of 2019

December 11, 2019

The 10 Best Books of 2019 The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Published Nov. 22, 2019 Updated Nov. 25, 2019 Disappearing Earth By Julia Phillips In the . . . read more »

Maine Readers’ High Demand List

October 3, 2019

Maine Readers’: High Demand Hold Digest from the MINERVA catalog October 2019   Print Books 1)      A Better Man (Penny) – 412 holds on 90 items 2)      The Dutch House (Patchett) – 197 holds on 33 items . . . read more »

Booker Prize Shortlist

September 4, 2019

Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus) Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press) Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown) Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte (Jonathan Cape) Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)

Gardening Fiction and Mystery

April 26, 2019

It’s nearing the end of April and just about everyone is itching to get into their gardens.  Here are some garden-related fiction stories to keep you engaged while you wait to plant those items you’ve . . . read more »

Man Booker International prize 2019 longlist

April 3, 2019

Man Booker International prize 2019 longlist Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (Oman), translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth (Sandstone Press)       Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue (China), translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen . . . read more »

What Mainers want to read most this March

February 19, 2019

What are your fellow Mainers wanting to read the most this winter?  Here is the February 2019 High Demand Hold List from our shared library catalog, MINERVA followed by the new MARCH list at the . . . read more »

January 2019 On-order Books

January 16, 2019

If you see something on this list you want to reserve, place a HOLD on it by visiting our Digital Catalog through the SWHPL website or give a call to the staff on the circulation . . . read more »

Maine Readers’ High Demand Hold List December 2018

December 10, 2018

Here are the books that your fellow Maine readers are requesting through Interlibrary Loan.  Southwest Harbor Public Library has 18 of these 20 items in our collection! Books 1)      **Kingdom of the Blind (Penny) – 426 . . . read more »

November On-Order BOOKS

November 5, 2018

Patrons can put a hold on books which are “on-order.” When they arrive on our door-step the Southwest Harbor Public Library patrons with holds will be the ones reading these books before they go out . . . read more »