Called charming and uplifting by Booklist magazine, The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick is a perfect read for the sunny days of August!
August 2023 Puzzle: Seen on Highways
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.
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!
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.
June 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
As Sudoku solvers who know and appreciate the numbers 1 through 9 we thought you might enjoy these helpful conversions for people who struggle with the metric system 1 million microphones 1 megaphone 2000 mockingbirds 2 kilomockingbirds 1 millonth of a fish 1 microfiche 4536 graham crackers 1 pound cake 10 rations…
June 2023 Book of the Month
Called "a laugh out-loud heart warmer" by Oprah Daily and named an NPR Book of the Year, The Guncle by Steven Rowley is June's Book of the Month.
June 2023 Puzzle: It’s all happening at the zoo
June is a great time to go to a zoo! We have passes that give you reduced admission to the Franklin Park Zoo, the Stoneham Zoo, the New England Aquarium and other neat places. Visit https://mhl.org/museum-passes for more information and to make reservations!
May 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This month’s Sudoku comes out in May, and true to their name, the Mayapples outside the library have begun to bloom. These native perennials are unique in that they only have one or two leaves and (if they do have two leaves instead of one) only one flower. If you are interested in native plants or gardening, be sure check out our Resources for Gardeners page for links to presentations we’ve hosted and for recommended reading. Enjoy this month’s puzzle!
May 2023 Book of the Month
May's Book of the Month is Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Named a MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 by Newsweek ∙ San Francisco Chronicle ∙ Essence ∙Yahoo! News ∙ Electric Literature ∙ BookBub ∙ Ms. Magazine ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Parade ∙ Oprah Daily and NBC News, Take My Hand is a novel that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.