September 23rd is Bi Visibility Day, a day to celebrate bisexual and biromantic people. Here are 15 recent novels with bi characters. You might also enjoy this previous list of YA novels with bi characters.
Memoirs for Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15-October 15. This month is specifically designated to celebrate the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, here are some great memoirs written by authors with Hispanic heritage.
September 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This puzzle becomes available in September, the month in which International Talk Like a Pirate Day has been observed every year since 2002. Did you know Mango Languages has a six-lesson course on how to talk like a pirate? (Mango can help you learn over 70 other languages, so why not?) Anyway, to commemorate the occasion, we leave you with this joke to tell a friend:
Library Books
OK, yes, all of our books are library books. But these library books are also set in libraries! September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month, so what better time to visit the real library and use your library card to read about a fictional library?
It’s All Greek To Me
Fancy a trip to the Greek Isles? You could check out the Greek Festival on September 9-10 in Andover, and then follow it up with some armchair travel with these books set in Greece.
The Most Important Meal Of the Day
September is Better Breakfast Month! As students return to school, you might be scrambling for easy ways to feed everyone in the morning--or for more time-intensive recipes to savor on the weekends. Either way, we've got you covered with this tasty assortment of breakfast-focused cookbooks. And if you're looking for even more recipes, don't forget about MHL's new digital subscription to New York Times Cooking!
Artist of the Month: September 2023 – Steven Edson
As a photographer, I attempt to describe moments in transition while observing the complexity and vastness of the land, people, and objects within constantly changing conditions. For these brief moments, time stands still for eternity. Form and function welded, bolted, and stitched together for speed, comfort, performance, and safety. My car photography illustrates the exquisite precision of bent metal and chrome to conform to a designer’s vision for the efficiencies of aerodynamics combined with the beauty of timeless style. Within this series, I use the camera to highlight and celebrate the industrial precision of car design both in its abstraction and the transformation cars undergo in different lighting and environmental atmospheric conditions.
September 2023 Book of the Month
Called A Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and NPR, September's Book of the Month is The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Winner of the National Book Award in 2022, it is a mesmerizing story that will stay with you long after you finish it.
September 2023 Puzzles: Double crossword bonus!
This month we present two crosswords, MA State Parks and Some Pretty Good Books. For those partial to the first, did you know you can get passes to Massachusetts State Parks and properties owned by the Trustees of Reservations from our museum passes collection? For those partial to the second, check out our Book recommendation newsletters, Book recommendation archive, and New York Times Best Sellers pages. Still don't know what to read? Tell us what you like and we'll send you a personalized list of suggestions! MA State Parks
MHL Will Be Closed 9/2-9/4 for Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day is an opportunity to honor the men, women and children whose hard work has paid off in the form of a 40-hour work week, a standard 9 to 5 workday, protective child labor laws and many other benefits we tend to take for granted. MHL will be closed Saturday, 9/2, Sunday 9/3, and Monday 9/4 in observance of Labor Day, but here are some books you can check out before we close for the holiday weekend!