Announcing Summer Fun Club!

This summer, for those entering grades K-3, we are announcing our Summer Fun Club: Get a Clue at the Library!  This program is sponsored by the Grigg-Lewis Foundation’s Workership Program.  Registration is required for this program, please call Lorraine at 754-4720. 
Thursdays at 10am in the Library Community Room,
July 12- August 2.  Presented by Storyteller Margaret [...]

Grand Opening of Genealogy Room!

The Jon F. Popkey Genealogy Room will have its official Grand Opening on Monday, June 4th at 6pm.  All are welcome to attend, refreshments will be provided by the Library Staff and the Friends of the Library. 
This room has been open to the public since April 2007.  Feel free to visit the website for more [...]

New Large Print Fiction Titles

If you hold a Lewiston Public Library card and are interested in any of these titles, you may request them from NIOGA.

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottline
Heartstopper by Joy Fielding
I Heard that Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
Quilters Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini
The River Knows by Amanda Quick

Holiday Closing

In observance of Memorial Day, the Lewiston Public Library will be closed Monday, May 28.

Thanks to the Lewiston Garden Club!

The Lewiston Public Library would like to send a special thanks to the Lewiston Garden Club for everything that they do for the plants & flowers at the library.  Yesterday the Garden Club spent significant time dusting the indoor library plants, making them look new and shiny.  As well as weeding out in front of [...]

Young Adult Book Review (But Adults Can Read it Too!)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 
Reviewed by Lorraine Quinn Yaeger, Children’s Librarian
Before you are half way down the first page of this unforgettable book, you realize, with a start, that your narrator is Death.  And although we are told unassumingly by the same, that “it’s just a small story really, about, among other things: a [...]

My Favorite Book Ever!

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Reviewed by Sarah J. Watson, Technical Services Librarian
A couple of years ago a colleague of mine lent me an audio version The Time Traveler’s Wife.  She told me that it was a Today Show Book Club book a couple of years ago and that I should read it.  So I gave it [...]

New Adult Non-Fiction Titles

These adult non-fiction titles just arrived, you may request them from NIOGA.

Colic Solved: the essential guide to infant reflux and the care of your crying, difficult to soothe baby by Bryan Vartabedian
Edith Wharton by Margaret B. McDowell
Everyday Food: great food fast by Martha Stewart Living
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
In an Instant: a family’s journey [...]

Come to Your “Census” in the Jon F. Popkey Genealogy Room

by Michelle Kratts, Library Clerk & Genealogist-in-Training
 
Ancestry.com is a treasure trove of census data.  You can access this database from any of our public library computers. (Sorry, remote access is not available for this database.)  Finding a family member in a census is an excellent way to begin your research.  A census is an official [...]

Historical Novel Book Review

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir,
Reviewed by Ann Siejka, Library Clerk
This is a new novel about Lade Jane Grey, from her birth up to the events leading to her death.  It’s an enjoyable historical read once you get started, but keep in mind that you’ll have to be able to keep track of several points of [...]