It's the mid-1970s in Baltimore, and Mary Jane, age 14, brings her groovy babysitting skills to her first summer nanny job taking care of five-year-old Izzy. And jeepers, does the Cone family ever need her help. Mary Jane's own mother has imparted all of her cooking...
This week the Matchmakers team welcomes guest blogger Maggie Lawrence, Youth Services Associate at our Noble Branch! Maggie writes: Gideon the Ninth is one of the funnest, freakiest sci-fi/fantasy novels I’ve ever read. I am prone to hyperbole, but I promise that in...
On June 21st, the Matchmakers hosted our first-ever Outdoor Book Talk event! Each member of our team prepared to share three books we enjoyed and gave a short "sales pitch" for each book. If you didn't make it to the program, no worries... we've got the list for you...
June is Pride Month, and the Matchmakers team celebrates with a special reading list featuring recent LGBTQIA+ titles: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen...
Welcome to our post by guest blogger Kate Atherton! The mysterious cover art, depicting the protagonist Nao with a washing machine head and the end and title papers with Zen brush stroke circles feel calming in their repetitive circle motif, alluring and mysterious....
Do you want to read more about New York City in the hectic, glittering era of Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley? Then you can't do better than Kathleen Rooney's debut novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. The story is narrated by Lillian Boxfish, age 85 (depending on...
Springtime is the best season for reading... well, every season is the best season for reading! Here are some books the Matchmakers team enjoyed reading. We think you might enjoy them too: Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty The Power Couple by Alex Berenson These Ghosts Are...
My, my... there really can never be too many spin-offs of Jane Austen's most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, can there? But this one is so good that I can't resist writing about it! It's called The Other Bennet Sister, it's written by historian Janice Hadlow, and...
The Matchmakers are delighted to spotlight a post by guest blogger and Adult Reference Associate, Kate Atherton! Kate writes: Come Again , written and drawn by Nate Powell (of the MARCH series fame), is a surreal thriller told through high contrast, expressive ink and...
It's February, which is Black History Month, so what better time to start a new romance series by a Black author? Alyssa Cole's contemporary romance How To Catch a Queen (first in the new Runaway Royals series) is both serious and funny, tender and spicy. The story...