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April 2023 Puzzle: This puzzle has birds in it

April is a great time for bird watching! All kinds of waterfowl, raptors, shorebirds, warblers, orioles, and other neat birds* are coming back to Massachusetts from wherever they migrated to last fall.

If you've ever wondered how and why birds migrate, read...

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Transgender Day of Visibility

Transgender Day of Visibility

March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, which makes it a particularly great day to check out books written by transgender and nonbinary authors. Here are 15 recent books written by transgender and nonbinary authors...

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World Theater Day

World Theater Day

The International Theater Institute observes March 27th as World Theater Day. Why not celebrate the performing arts from the comfort of your reading chair, with one of these novels for adults and teens set in the world of the...

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Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

Looking for ways to tidy up at home? You could try shoving everything under your bed...or you could check out one of these books. We won't judge.

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What to read after the Last of Us season finale

Need some more post-apocalyptic content after the season finale of The Last of Us? Check out these novels!

March 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku

This month's Sudoku is being posted on March 15th, also known as the Ides of March. To mark this occasion, we present the following joke:

Caesar was famously killed on the Ides of March, but he wasn't expecting the attack until August 2. His final words embodied his dismay over...

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Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day!

March 14 is Pi Day! Celebrated because 3.14 are the first few digits of pi, this is a day to celebrate mathematics. But it's also a great day to eat pie, and here are some cookbooks to help with that celebration!

MAR10

MAR10

Some gamers celebrate March 10 as Mario Day, in tribute to Nintendo's iconic plumber. In honor of Mar10, here are some great books for teen and adult gamers to check out. PS did you know that MHL has a circulating video game collection, as well as a...

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Ride: A Feminist Book Project

Rise: A Feminist Book Project

Each year, the Rise Feminist Book Project selects the best books with feminist content for readers 0-18. Here's the Rise 2023 Top Ten list. You can see the full list of titles and learn more about Rise on...

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March 2023 Puzzle: Unusual Measures

This month's crossword features units of measure that you don't hear about every day. Have you ever needed to measure something but don't have the right tool? See if you can borrow it from our Library of Things collection! It's got:

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