We are squarely in the middle of our summer reading program! If you aren't already participating, join the fun by visiting our Summer Reading page!
July 2025 Puzzle: Dumb marsupial joke
The subject of this month's puzzle is a marsupial. Did you know you can see real live marsupials in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston? Their Outback Trail exhibit includes two marsupial species: Red-necked wallabies and Western Grey kangaroos. Both are native to Australia and both are very cute! If you are thinking of visiting either the Franklin Park Zoo or the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, be sure to reserve the library's Zoo New England pass to get discounted admission. All our museum passes can be found at https://mhl.org/museum-passes.
July 2025 Book of the Month
Our July Book of the Month will drop you into a small Irish village in the 1950s—right as electricity is about to change everything. This Is Happiness by Niall Williams is funny and full of charm. The story is not to be missed, get your copy while supplies last!
June 2025 Mid-Month Sudoku
Love Sudoku and other fun puzzles and games? Visit the library throughout the summer to help solve our large format community Sudoku puzzles, and have fun with other games like checkers, jenga and boggle available to play throughout the building!
June 2025 Puzzle: Basic Math
Bad news, everybody. Due to cuts in federal funding to libraries through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a service that costs 87 cents per person, we are for sure losing access to 21 databases on July 1st, wait times for ebooks and digital audiobooks through Libby will likely increase, and services like the Commonwealth Catalog have been threatened.
June 2025 Book of the Month
Celebrate Pride Month with our June Book of the Month pick: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai—a powerful story of love, loss, and the impact of the AIDS crisis.
May 2025 Mid-Month Sudoku
Dear Sudoku fans: As you know, Sudoku is all about numbers 1 through 9. Did you know that almost all books published in the last 50 years have a 10- or 13-digit unique number assigned to them that is made up of digits 0 through 9? It’s called the International Standard Book Number, or ISBN. The numbers in an ISBN can reveal all kinds of information about the book—language, country where published, publisher, etc. But it’s the last digit, the check digit, that we think some of you puzzle solvers may find especially interesting
May 2025 Puzzle: This puzzle also has birds in it
May in Massachusetts is one of the best times of the year to enjoy birds. Sparrows, swallows, swifts, wood warblers, hummingbirds and orioles are all flying in to make nests, attract mates and raise babies before flying south again in the fall.
May 2025 Book of the Month
Called “A feel-good read that will restore your faith in humanity.” by the Washington Post, The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson is our pick for the April Book of the Month!
April 2025 Mid-Month Sudoku
Happy April, everyone! Be sure to check out our Friends’ Spring Book Sale later this month. We also have the redonkulously popular Pokemon Club scheduled a few times between now and the end of May. Which reminds me of this post from the Master of Horror: