Friends Annual Meeting and Maine Author Paul Doiron Coming to the Library on May 11th.

Paul Doiron is the best-selling author of the Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch series of mystery novels set in the Maine woods. His first book, The Poacher's Son, won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award and was nominated for an Edgar for Best First Novel. Hatchet Island, the thirteenth book in the series, was named one of the best books of 2022 by Amazon.

Paul will be coming to the Stowe Free Library on Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 7pm for a reading and book signing. A selection of the Bowditch books will be available for purchase from Bear Pond Books at the signing so you can catch up before the 14th Mike Bowditch novel, Dead Man's Wake, comes out on June 27, 2023. Stowe Free Library has the books for check out. Your local library should as well. Bear Pond books (has a select number of books in stock) and Bridge Street Books can get you the books if they do not have them in stock.

This is a free event and open to all.

Paul, a Maine native, is an Editor Emeritus of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, having served as Editor in Chief from 2005 to 2013, before stepping down to write full time. Paul is a former member of the Maine Arts Commission and past chair of the Maine Humanities Council. He is also a Registered Maine Guide specializing in fly fishing and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife Kristen Lindquist, an artist and writer.

And for any of you that wonder how to say his last name - check out this post - https://paul-doiron.squarespace.com/blog/2011/4/1/how-do-you-pronounce-doiron-anyway.html

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Stowe Free Library. The Friends is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, supporting library resources, activities and programs. For information call the Library at 802-253-6145 or email librarian@stowelibrary.gov

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