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January is National Hobby Month! Are you thinking of picking up a new hobby, or maybe returning to an old one? Well, no offense intended, but you might consider picking……up a “For Dummies” book. Despite the mildly offensive name, this is a long-running and generally trusted series of introductions to many topics, including several popular hobbies. You might also……Watching for Dummies by Jessica Vaughan Bird Watching For Dummies is a spark book, teaching you all you need to know about this fun, affordable, and accessible hobby. It gently……it holds. This book gets you started, teaching you how to identify birds by sight and sound, find birdwatching hotspots, and get the birds to come to your own backyard….

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…monthly garden-themed storytime for ages 3-5 years with our friends from the Andover Garden Club! Music Makers: A monthly music program for ages 2-5 years where they can sign up…The Children’s Room winter program season officially starts on Tuesday January 20th and runs through Saturday March 14th! Our weekly storytimes and monthly music/craft programs for ages 0-5 years will……be back, along with some new programs, including: Cuentos y Canciones: A monthly bilingual storytime for ages 2-5 years – listen to stories in English and Spanish! Garden Storytime: A……to make some music! Music with Rockabye Beats & Peter Sheridan: Two monthly drop-in music programs for ages 0-5 years, sponsored by the Friends of MHL! For school-age kids, weekly…

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For many Asian cultures and others celebrating the lunar new year, 2023 will begin on Sunday, January 22nd. 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, so why not kick it……off with one of these bunny-titled books? Bunny by Mona Awad Invited to join a popular clique at her university, a misfit artist with a dark imagination is drawn into…

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Have you signed up for MHL’s Winter Reading Club? It’s running this month for readers of all ages. For the winter reading club, you can read whatever books you’d like….…good Cambodian daughter, while dealing with the fallout after coming out to Ma, which eventually breaks their bond in two. Nuclear family by Joseph Han Set in the months leading…

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…or other questions, please call us at 978-623-8400. You can also request a Bespoke Book Bag to have staff choose books and prepare a bag for you to take home….Fill out this form to get a personalized leisure reading list from Memorial Library. This service will help you find books to read for pleasure. To get help with homework……can request that we put together a children’s book bundle for you. If you’d like suggestions for teen readers (in grades 6-12), you may be interested in this customized reading…

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Find your next great read with this interactive magazine for booklovers. BookBrowse offers: Reviews, excerpts, recommendations and excerpts. Browsing by genre, time period, geographical setting and theme. Handpicked “If you like this, try these” recommendations for thousands of authors and books. Resources for book clubs including recommended reads by theme, reading guides & online book […]

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…

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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……Vietnamese flavors. The restaurant continued to gain in popularity, until it reached national and critical acclaim. This book is their intertwining narratives, punctuated by recipes from Tung and Kathy’s upbringings,……of restaurants as we knew them, and what comes after by Corey Mintz From the farm to the curbside pickup parking spot, this book shows how everything about the restaurant……Jamie Loftus In a book that is part travelogue, part cultural history, a popular comedian embarks on a cross-country road trip researching the landscape of American hot dogs as they’re…

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…set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis, HBCU Made illuminates and celebrates the experience of going to a historically Black college or university. This book is……for proud alumni, their loved ones, current students, and anyone considering an HBCU. The first book featuring famous alumni sharing personal accounts of the Black college experience, HBCU Made offers……Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning……part cookbook, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts weaves fiction with historical records, memories, and interviews to present a unique culinary portrait of Black Appalachians. Forty recipes rooted deep in the…

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…you suggestions of books that are similar. Of course you can also get personalized book suggestions from our library staff by visiting https://mhl.org/advice. We hope you enjoy this month’s puzzle….…tool for finding read-alikes: NoveList Plus. Just enter the title or author of a book you like, and NoveList Plus will give you suggestions of books that are similar. Of…If you are partial to cozy mysteries like those of Canadian mystery writer Sarah Fox, or just like hilarious wordplay in book titles, be sure to check out this great…

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