If you are planning a long road trip, games like The Alphabet Game and Ghost can help keep boredom at bay, but be sure to also load up on audiobooks! If your car has a CD player (and lucky you if it does!), then there are more than 4,000 audiobook CDs you can borrow from the library and almost 35,000 titles to choose from within our library's network! If your car has Bluetooth, Apple Car Play, or Android Auto—or an audio cable than can connect to your car stereo's AUX port—you can use your smartphone to play any of thousands more digital audiobooks using the Libby, by OverDrive and Hoopla Digital apps. Please get in touch if you would like us to help you find great books to listen to or to get set up with either of these apps.
Beach Reads Without a Wait
Are you looking for a hot novel to read while you chill at the beach? Maybe something like Lessons in Chemistry or Happy Place? Well, get in line--you'll have a bit of a wait for those titles, unfortunately. But hey, there were plenty of great books that came out last year, and I bet you haven't read all of them yet! Here are some great beach reads that should be a little easier to get your hands on this summer. (And if you want to go back further in time, here's our 2022 list of Beach Reads Without a Wait.)
Athletes With Disabilities
In honor of Disability Pride Month, why not learn more about disabled athletes and the way they compete? And if you're looking for more about athletes in general, did you know MHL now has a subscription to The Athletic?
Barbenheimer: Barbie vs Oppenheimer
July 21st is the day many cinephiles have been waiting for: the release date of two summer blockbusters, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Many fans have been having fun with the idea of two very different movies sharing a release date and have been preparing for a Barbenheimer double feature. If you're preparing for either or both of these films, here are some books to get you ready!
July 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This month's Sudoku comes with surefire way to make money using unassailable numbers logic: Ask a friend if you can borrow a dollar. If they say yes, tell them to give you just fifty cents of it. When they ask why, explain that that way they'll owe you fifty cents, and you'll owe them fifty cents, and you'll be even. Quod erat demonstrandum!
Books for Fans Of The Bear
If you're a fan of the intense restaurant-based dramedy The Bear, you might enjoy these memoirs and nonfiction books about chefs and restaurant life. Or if you want to follow Carmy and Sydney into the kitchen, check out MHL's new subscription to the New York Times Cooking! (If you've been wanting to watch The Bear but don't have Hulu: you can request the library's Roku with Hulu access.) And if you're still hungry for more, you might also enjoy these novels set in restaurants.
July is Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month! Here are some books about the history and future of the disability rights movement. You might also be interested in this collection of books by authors with disabilities.
Happy 4th of July!
MHL will close at 5pm on Monday July 3rd and be closed on Tuesday July 4th in observance of Independence Day Before we close why not stock up on historical fiction Here are some revolutionary reads libraryaware urlhttpswwwlibraryawarecom2015NewsletterIssuesViewIssued996b4d614924dff801215692a5924aepostId417364cf942642edbd298346d24d42e6…
July 2023 Book of the Month
Set on the coast of Maine and called "A magnificent storytelling feat" by the Boston Globe and "a must-read books of the year" by Time Magazine, Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark is July's Book of the Month. Come on in and get your copy while supplies last!
July 2023 Puzzle: Vile Characters
All the bad guys in this month’s puzzle come from books (and film, and in at least one case, a play). Love them or hate them, they’re often the characters most responsible for keeping us immersed in a story, so let’s give them credit for that, anyway. If you’ve been reading like a fiend lately, turn yourself into a hero by logging how many minutes you’ve read for our community reading challenge this summer! Also—breaking news!—we’ve just added a couple new games to our board games collection, including one called, appropriately enough, Villainous: Infinite Power.