Camden Public Library

06/24/2026

Check out these new amazing books. They have been back-ordered ir just released and we are so excited to have them available for you!

06/23/2026

Here's another summer reading challenge.

06/23/2026

The Blue Door Book Shed will be closed to donations for today. ☔️

06/23/2026

06/22/2026

As we count down to the fiscal year’s final days, there is one last opportunity to pitch in. Your donation by June 30 will help cover $20,000 needed to meet our year-end budget! 🌟 Make your contribution at librarycamden.org/donate
Thank you!

06/22/2026

For this Explorations Read-Aloud, Joseph Coté will read excerpts from and discuss Douglas Stewart’s "John of John."

From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother.

Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn’t the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.

John of John is a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart’s reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today.

Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?
Contact Joseph at [email protected]

06/22/2026

For this week's Explorations Read-Aloud, Joseph Coté will read excerpts from and discuss Douglas Stewart’s "John of John."

From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother.

Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn’t the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.

John of John is a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart’s reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today.

Named a MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2026 by The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Oprah Daily, and Vogue

“Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story of identity, what it means to belong, and the courage to claim your own truth.”—Oprah Winfrey
“One of 2026’s literary triumphs.”—Boston Globe

Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?
Contact Joseph at [email protected]