May Book Discussion

Thursday, May 5th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

"In a poor fishing village in 1929, a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha."

April Book Discussion

Thursday, April 7th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

"In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during WWII German occupation."

Readers' Advisory Just for You!

Something New for Readers!
Experience Books & Authors, a new resource available to fiction and nonfiction readers of all ages. Just click on the link from our website database page and you can find reading recommendations contributed by experts, keep up to date on bestsellers in the United States and Canada, create a personal “reading room” online, join communities of other readers with similar interests, and much more. This site is fun and easy to use—all you need is your library card for access— and is provided by the Connecticut State Library.

Portland Library's Online Database for Readers

Library News You Can Use!

Looking for relevant fiction, for pleasure reading a bookclub title or for a class you are taking. The title or author you wanted is already checked out? Just looking for a “good book”?

The library has an online database to help you!
NoveList® can help you find your next book to read. This database of over 155,000 fiction titles for readers of all ages lets you use your favorite author to link to other books you might enjoy.

The easy to use Find box enables you to quickly find books, authors, series, lists and more! For example, a search for Harry Potter provides you with all of the Harry Potter books as well as additional feature content to further enrich your reading experience such as Author Read-alikes, BookTalks, feature articles, Book Discussion Guides and the Harry Potter series. This is a wonderful place to see what titles are in your favorite author’s new series.

Not Sure What You Are Looking For? Click on Recommended Reads to browse through hundreds of titles carefully selected by librarians and organized by reading level as well as genre or topic or type in a topic you are interested in (baseball, summer vacations, “women detectives in New York”) and “play” with the results.

Ready? From the Library's website, click on DATABASES on the top red menu bar. From the next screen, click on the link to NOVELIST.

Free audiobook & eBook downloads

For Portland residents... with a Library card!

Your audiobook & eBook connection at http://libraryconnection.lib.overdrive.com/
also just added at iCONN, Connecticut's Digital Library at http://connstatelib.myilibraryaudio.com/



Enjoy digital books on your computer, burn some audio titles to CD and listen in your car, transfer some titles to your iPod or MP3 player and listen anywhere. Check out the large collection of titles.

Read a good book lately?

Share your comments about the book you've read. Others would love to know. Thanks!