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!
Books For Fans Of Red, White and Royal Blue
Are you a fan of either Casey McQuiston’s book Red, White and Royal Blue or the recent movie based on their book? Either way, here are some more books you might enjoy, whether you’re looking for more royal romance or more enemies-to-lovers couples. (And if you’re a fan of the book and want to check out the movie: it’s an Amazon Prime original, so you can request the library’s Roku with Prime to access it!)
National Parks: America’s Best Idea
Each year, America’s National Parks receive around 300 million visitors. Are you one of them? If you’d like some tips for how to visit one, or if you’d like to revisit fond National Park memories, here are some travel guides and memoirs for you to check out.
August 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This puzzle drops on August 15, which is also known as National Lemon Meringue Pie Day. In honor of this fact, we searched "Lemon Meringue Pie" in New York Times Cooking to see what came up. (We recommend you not do this while you're hungry or you'll go crazy.) It's got recipes with names like Cranberry Lemon Meringue Pie, Extra-Lemony Meringue Pie, Dolester Mile's Lemon Meringue Tart, Lemon Meringue Pots de Crème, and more.
Elvis Week
Every year, fans of Elvis Presley make a pilgrimage to Graceland to celebrate Elvis Week from August 9-16. This marks the week leading up to the anniversary of Elvis's death on August 16th, 1977. If you can't make the trip to Memphis yourself, you can check out one of the many books and films featuring Elvis and his legacy, including artists who inspired Elvis himself.