GORHAM, ME — Mark your calendars, because we have a busy September at the Library! For more information, please visit our website at https://baxterlibrary.org/, or visit us on Facebook!

Tuesday, September 24, 6 PM  Author Event: Caroline Ailanthus

Join us for a reading by author Caroline Ailanthus. Caroline is a creative science writer with a master’s degree in Conservation Biology. She has three published novels with more on the way.  Bifurcation Events, set partially in Maine, is Caroline’s most recent book. There are moments that divide life into before and after. Death can do it. But so can miracles. So can love. Andy, a scientist, calls these moments bifurcation events. He’s seen his share, most dramatically in the complete collapse of the old civilization–and the beginnings of another.

Bifurcation Events builds on Ailanthus’s earlier novel, Ecological Memory, set a few decades after the end of civilization – and the beginning of another. Part scientific detective story, part post-apocalyptic travelogue, Ecological Memory is at heart a tale about what happens after you lose everything.

Wednesday, September 25, 6 PM  Meet the Candidates

Join us to hear from the candidates for School Committee, Town Council, and Maine House and Senate seats, plus special guest Heather Perry, followed by a meet and greet. This event will also be livestreamed and filmed for later broadcast.  We’ll share links to those when we have them!

Thursday, September 26, 6 PM  Evening Book Group

Join us for a discussion of All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson.  There are many valuable reasons to read memoir, including the opportunity to see yourself reflected in the pages or the opportunity to read about lives very different from your own.  This award winning memoir has been one of the top challenged books in the country, but we invite you to form your own opinion.  Our focus in this discussion is on the book as a work of literature rather than a debate on its inclusion in any particular library.