I love a fresh and frothy romance in hot summer weather... here are three contemporary romance novels, all leading to a special Happily Ever After!...
More Than Meets the Eye
I love books where the characters are not quite what they seem--it leads to lots of suspense and page-turning intrigue! These three books are sure...
Blast To the Past (in Fiction): the 1970s
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...
Our Team: What was, what could’ve been, and what is
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball is a slightly unusual sports book. I've read plenty of books about...
A Body at Rest by Susan Petrone
Each month members of the Matchmakers team create unique book displays for patrons to browse on the 2nd floor of the Lee Road branch. Last month, I...
The Song of Achilles: A Retelling of an Old Myth
I have read several retelling's of old tales and myths over the past few years, but I cannot think of a better one that I've read than Song of...
Gideon the Ninth
This week the Matchmakers team welcomes guest blogger Maggie Lawrence, Youth Services Associate at our Noble Branch! Maggie writes: Gideon the Ninth...
Hot Summer Reads
Do these hot summer temperatures have you hiding out at home to beat the heat? If you're looking for a good read that will rival the heat outdoors,...
Matchmakers Midsummer Book List
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...
Consumed by the flame: Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Whereabouts”
In Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri explores the terrain of her own mind amid a lush, formidable Italian city. The word “novel” appears below the title,...
Multigenerational Reparations with Professor Thomas Craemer
In this interview, Professor Craemer looks at past reparations for slaveowners in the United States and Great Britain as successful examples of multi-generational payments. We go into the math of how Black reparations might be calculated, as well.
The Matchmakers Celebrate Pride Month
June is Pride Month, and the Matchmakers team celebrates with a special reading list featuring recent LGBTQIA+ titles: The Secret to Superhuman...
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