Books & Big Ideas:
A Kittery Community Read
Turn on your book lights and grab your bookmarks because the Town of Kittery is hosting its first Community Read program called Books & Big Ideas. The year-long program will celebrate and foster community dialogue around important themes affecting our community and those living and working within it. Topics for the program will range from affordable housing to diversity, equity and inclusion, climate change and more.
Community members of all ages are encouraged to participate by reading and sharing their perspectives with family, friends and neighbors in local book-clubs, at one of our upcoming group discussions, and on social media.
The winter/spring edition of Books & Big Ideas will take place from February 2024 – April 2024 and focus on the topic of climate action and sustainability in Kittery, the state of Maine and beyond. Through the power of literature, we will collectively learn about the environmental issues facing our planet and community, along with the complexities of the unfolding climate crisis.
By exploring this topic and the actions that can be taken in our everyday lives to help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, we can foster a greater sense of stewardship for the place we call home.
What We’re Reading This Winter/Spring
Adult Nonfiction
- There Is No Planet B: A handbook for the make or break years by Mike Berners-Lee – Available in paperback and Libby audiobook.
- The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone by Heidi A. Roop – Available in paperback and Libby ebook.
- The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here by Hope Jahren – Available in paperback and Libby audiobook and Libby ebook.
- Adult Nonfiction: Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar – Available in hardcover and CloudLibrary ebook.
- Adult Nonfiction: Small Town, Big Oil by David W. Moore – Available in paperback, Libby ebook and book on CD.
Adult Fiction
- The End We Start From by Megan Hunter – Available in hardcover, large print hardcover, Libby audiobook and book on CD.
Young Adult Nonfiction
- The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here by Hope Jahren – Available in paperback
Juvenile Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen – Available in paperback, hardcover, large print hardcover, book on CD, CloudLibrary ebook, CloudLibrary audiobook, Libby ebook and Libby audiobook.
Juvenile Nonfiction
- The Secret Stream by Kimberly Ridley – Available in hardcover picture book.
- The Secret Pool by Kimberly Ridley – Available in hardcover picture book.
- A Planet Like Ours by Frank Murphy and Charnaie Gordon – Available in hardcover picture book.