For more than 180 years, the quaint home of the Bakerville Library has stood as both a touchstone of our common past and a threshold into the future we all share.
Come see for yourself.

The Stars Aligned. Thank You All!

Waiting for Mrs. Claus

Who knows what positive influences had their way with our Holiday Festival on Friday night? Was it the good weather? the newspaper coverage? the internet? the new signs? the pull of tradition?

Most likely it's down to the fun-loving, committed community of the Bakerville Library.

Mrs. Claus and Co.

Thanks to the Friends of the Bakerville Library, who solicited donations, donated themselves, thanked, cleaned, organized, set up, decorated, prepared libations, served, and cleaned up again.

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Thanks to the Board of Directors, who set up the Christmas tree outside, orchestrated the singing, and baked heavenly cookies. And thanks to Mary Lee and Bob Dunn, who donated the Christmas tree.

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Thanks to the Slate family for bringing their fresh wreaths and fresh faces.

Gingerbread contest

Thanks to everyone who entered our first annual Gingerbread Contest.

Thanks to everyone who placed a bid, sang a song, ran around the Christmas tree, sat on Mrs. Claus's lap, drank a cup of hot cider, gossiped with old friends, ate a cookie, made a lollipop holder—everyone who added the Bakerville Library to their already full first-week-of-December schedule.

auction shopping

Thanks especially to Mrs. Claus!

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Finally, thanks to the many, many auction donors. Watch this space in the next day or two for specific thanks and links.

At the end of the evening, all the cool kids had their picture taken with you-know-who.

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Library Hours:

Monday: 2–6
Tuesday: 10–8
Wednesday: 2–6
Thursday: 2–6
Friday: 2–6
Saturday: 9–2

Annex Use Calendar

Newest Arrivals:

Feline Fatale
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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Light Before Day
Christopher Rice
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In Venice I Could Sing
Patricia Martin
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No One Can Know
Kate Alice Marshall
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In My Father's Tire Tracks
Jack Sheedy
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Studies at the School by the Sea
Jenny Colgan
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Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
Tristan Gooley
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The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
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Diva
Daisy Goodwin
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We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity
Phillip C. McGraw
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The Princess of Las Vegas
Chris Bohjalian
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In Sunshine or In Shadow
Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles
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Verity
Colleen Hoover
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Incredibly Easy Vegetarian
Cookbook
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Murder in the Tea Leaves
Laura Childs
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Maktub
Paulo Coelho
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The New Couple in 5B
Lisa Unger
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The Hunter
Tana French
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