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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...

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Books for Fans of The Bear

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...

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July Is Disability Pride Month

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...

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NYT cooking

NYT Cooking and The Athletic are now available to MHL card holders!

We recently added New York Times Cooking and The Athletic to the list of online resources available to MHL card holders

New York Times Cooking is a cooking guide, innovative...

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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,...

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Queer Voices

Queer Voices

Pride Month is drawing to a close but you can still check out these memoirs by LGBTQ+ folks from all walks of life! Many of them are also available as audiobooks read by the authors.

June is Caribbean American Heritage Month

June is Caribbean American Heritage Month

June is Caribbean American Heritage Month! Why not check out one of these great books by Caribbean American authors?

LGBTQ+ History

LGBTQ+ History

The Stonewall Uprising in 1969 is often considered the start of the USA's LGBTQ+ rights movement, but queer people have existed throughout history. Here are some books to check out if you're interested in learning...

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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...
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Stonewall Book Awards

2023 Stonewall Book Awards

Each year the American Library Association's Rainbow Roundtable presents the Stonewall Book Awards to "English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience." Here are this year's winners. There's a great variety here...

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