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LOCAL AUTHOR – ALBERT WAITT – THURSDAY, JUNE 5 @ 6:00 PM

We are so thrilled to welcome back local author and friend of Graves Library Albert Waitt on Thursday, June 5 @ 6:00 pm.  Mr. Waitt will be reading from his new book Springbrookville, the third in his LT Nichols mystery series.  Copies of the book will be for sale and signing after the reading.

 

The first in the series, The Ruins of Woodman’s Village, was published in 2023, followed by Flood Tide in 2024.  Waitt is a graduate of Bates College and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.  His short fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Third Coast, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Words and Images, and other publications.  His first novel, Summer to Fall was published in 2013 by Barrel Fire Press.

 

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 207-967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

 

MAINE AUTHOR – CHRIS VAN DUSEN AT THE MAINE CLASSIC CAR MUSEUM – SOLD OUT

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We are so excited to join forces with the Maine Classic Car Museum to invite Maine Author/Illustrator Chris Van Dusen back to visit with us at the Museum on Saturday, August 10.  Chris will be hanging out among the cool cars at the Museum from 10:00 to 12:00 and to read from one of his many books.  There is no charge for children. Adult admission is $12 per person.  Registration is required.  Please call the Library (967-2778) to add your name to the list.

The Maine Classic Car Museum is located at 2564 Portland Road, Arundel.  Copies of Van Dusen’s books will be available for sale in the Museum store.  This program includes a craft to go and treat!

 

 

More About Chris Van Dusen: 

Chris lives in a little town on the Coast of Maine with his wife Lori and a dog named Opal. As a child, he spent hours drawing pictures. Dr. Seuss and Robert McCloskey were his heroes. After high school, he studied fine art at The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and graduated with a BFA. For more than ten years he worked as a freelance illustrator specializing in art for kids. His first book,  Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee was published in 2000.

Since then, Chris has written several books including The Circus Ship, If I Built a House, Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit, A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee, Big Truck, Little Island, and so many more!  He also illustrated the Mercy Watson series written by Kate DiCamillo.

More About the Car Museum:

The Maine Classic Car Museum is New England’s friendliest visitor destination, with dozens of classic cars on display and an array of vintage automobilia and cultural curiosities. Come take a tour of the 2024 exhibits.  Explore the Museum store with unique gifts for that car person in your life. Every car has a story, and they can’t wait to share them with you!

 

CANADIAN/MAINE AUTHOR SUSAN D. HANNAFORD – JUNE 26 @ 6:00 PM

 

We are so excited to welcome back Susan Doherty Hannaford for the launch of her third book, Monday Rent Boy.  Susan will be here at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library, 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport on Wednesday, June 26 at 6:00 pm.  This event is free and open to the public. A reception with light refreshments will follow.

Susan has a Bachelor of Science from Concordia University and studied journalism at Ryerson University where she was recommended for a job at Macleans Magazine. After Macleans, she worked in Paris, France for a digital publishing company, Atex France, freelancing for The International Herald Tribune, La Tribune de Genève, La Suisse, and the Independent in London UK.  Back in Canada, she started her own company, On Location Productions, and for 18 years worked in advertising.  During that time, she studied creative writing at the University of Toronto, and Concordia University.  Susan has numerous volunteer affiliations: the YMCA and the Douglas Institute and was a long-serving board member of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She was a board member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) in Montreal, and Nazareth Community, serving men and women with addictions and mental illness. As a committed volunteer, she works with patients suffering from psychosis through Montreal’s Douglas Institute and has done significant research in the area of bipolar illness and paranoid schizophrenia.  In Toronto, she created an annual event for the Royal Conservatory of Music, in a sustained effort to raise their endowment to allow all Canadian would-be professional musicians to study on full bursary.

Premise of Monday Rent Boy:

At eight years of age, Arthur Barnes and Ernie Castlefrank find themselves on the same altar boy at St. Nick’s, a situation that readies an unlikely friendship. Father Zipernowski— a pastor referred to as The Zipper, has given both boys a sterling crucifix that marks them as children conditioned to provide sexual favors for clergy members in the counties of Somerset and Avon.  As Ernie and Arthur slip into lives of petty degeneracy; dope-smoking thieves who steal from the collection plate, local shops, parked cars, and department stores in nearby Bristol, they laugh off their inner humiliation without ever speaking publicly, or privately about what has been happening in the vestry. Arthur’s book-thieving leads to an unlikely partnership with Marina Phillips, the owner of the town bookshop. He has the chance to reinvent himself as a young book critic with eyes to becoming an English major, a professor, and a scholar. Ernie’s leg-up comes in the form of a pawnshop owner, a man with a desire to profit from the exploitation of children in The Pint Room, a website on the Internet.

For more information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website:  www.graveslibrary.org

AUTHOR VISIT WITH ALBERT WAITT – THURSDAY, MAY 23 @ 6:00 PM

MAINE AUTHOR ALBERT WAITT – MAY 23 AT 6:00 PM

Local Author and friend to Graves Library Albert Waitt will be here on Thursday, May 23 at 6:00 pm to read from the second book in the LT Nichols Mystery Series.  Newly published Flood Tide is an incredible work of fiction about what happens when a body washes up on the shore of a harbor island and what LT Nichols, Maine’s Chief of Police will do about it!

 

 

Mr. Waitt will bring copies of the book to sell and sign after his reading. 

 

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.