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Another chance to help! Tweet

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:36:52 -0500

Bangor Savings Bank Foundation is once again kicking off its
unique, grant-making initiative, Community Matters More. As a previous
participant in Community Matters More, they want to be sure to give you
the opportunity to help allocate a total of $100,000 to 68 community
non-profits throughout Maine.
Each of the 48 non-profits listed on the ballot will receive at least a
$1,000 grant for participating in the program, and the top 20 write-in
vote-getters will also receive a grant from the Bangor Savings Bank
Foundation. …

Berry Library will be Closed for Thanksgiving

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:59:13 -0500

The Library will be open again on Saturday, November 27th. Have a great holiday!

Eat, Pray, Love & Ford County Tweet

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:58:07 -0400

We have several new best-selling titles on the shelves this week including, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and John Grisham's Ford County.

Eat, Pray, Love - This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. …

Berry Library will be closed Tuesday, August 24th Tweet

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:25:39 -0400

The library will be back open for regular hours on Thursday.

The Kids Are Alright!

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400

We received many, many new children's books over the past few weeks. Two of our favorites are Enemy Pie and Don't Laugh At Me. Swing by the library and for a terrific summer read!

It was the perfect summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became neighborhood enemy number one. Luckily Dad had a surefire way to get rid of enemies: Enemy Pie. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire day playing with the enemy!
In this funny yet endearing story, one little boy learns an effective recipes for turning your best enemy into your best friend. …

As Requested...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:38:23 -0400

The exhilarating conclusion to bestseller Larsson's Millennium trilogy (after The Girl Who Played with Fire) finds Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who was shot in the head in the final pages of Fire, alive, though still the prime suspect in three murders in Stockholm. While she convalesces under armed guard, journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to unravel the decades-old coverup surrounding the man who shot Salander: her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a Soviet intelligence defector and longtime secret asset to Säpo, Sweden's security police. …

Berry Library selected by the NEH.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:57:42 -0400

Recently, the Berry Memorial Library was selected by The National Endowment of the Humanities as a recipient of the We The People "A More Perfect Union" bookshelf. Berry Library was one of 4000 of the national's school and public libraries to receive this bookshelf.

Included in the bookshelf are seventeen hardcover books as well as a number of bonus selections, including The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns. Visit the NEH's We The People website for more information about the program.