Today the Matchmakers welcome guest blogger Michele Hirschfeld! Michele writes: Last Summer on State Street, the 2022 debut novel by Toya Wolfe, describes the summer of 1999 as four friends experience the dismantling of their girlhood and neighborhood. I love...
March is Women's History Month, and the Matchmakers team has created a list of historical fiction titles by women authors, with women as the heroes of their own stories. Enjoy our book suggestions! Violeta by Isabel Allende The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict...
Today the Matchmakers team welcomes guest blogger James Rogers, who leads the Pioneers of Sci-Fi Book Club! James writes: I’m a big fan of Science Fiction, and by far my favorite Sci-Fi stories always have deep and well thought out world building. They not only detail...
February is Black History Month, and the Matchmakers have put together a list of suggested Adult Fiction reads by Black authors. Celebrate the history and achievements of Black writers this month by giving one of these a try! The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley ---...
One way to time-travel is to peruse a vintage cookbook, follow the recipe, whip up some crazy food nobody eats anymore, and eat up the results. I have read two novels lately where vintage cookbooks drive the plot for a contemporary protagonist. If you're a fan of the...
December is the month to look back at the year as it's drawing to a close. I'm thinking about my favorite fiction from this past year. These are books I read in 2022... not all of them were published in 2022, but these are all my faves, old and new, from the year....
The Matchmakers team welcomes our newest member, Amanie McGee! Amanie writes: Sometimes, you need to go back and remember your childhood. Those quick and easy readers with characters that felt like your friends and not just characters in a book. Why not revisit those...
Today we welcome a new member of the Matchmakers team, Erika Hogan! Erika writes: A twelve-year old girl finds the words and strength to speak about past trauma in the emotionally resonant middle grade novel Caprice by Coe Booth. On the outside, Caprice’s life appears...
I've recently become very excited about solving crossword puzzles, so imagine my delight to find a refreshing, smart novel featuring crossword puzzles as part of the plot! Jeffrey Bartsch's debut novel, Two Across, is about two brainy people trying to build a...
Happy Halloween from the Matchmakers team! Today we welcome our guest blogger, Youth Services Librarian E Hogan! E writes: In the book The Clackity by Lora Senf, twelve year old Evie's aunt Desdemona goes missing, and Evie sets out to find and rescue the one person...