I want to begin this post with a short explanation. This blog post is a companion piece to a post I wrote last year about The Backstreets, the first...
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I want to begin this post with a short explanation. This blog post is a companion piece to a post I wrote last year about The Backstreets, the first...
I’ve read several books lately that focus on the tiniest forms of life—some creatures charming and inspiring, others, devastatingly harmful, and...
Here at the Coventry Village Branch, we’re gearing up for gardening season. In this week of the vernal equinox, we’ve got seedlings starting inside,...
Evan Drellich's Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds created Sports' Biggest Mess is a book about baseball and a team that...
November is National Native American History Month. We're fortunate that the last several years have seen an increase in the number of books...
The Matchmakers welcome new Matchmaker Lisa Gordon! Lisa writes: Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (2021) The pungent odor of sautéed...
“Please tell the people of your country, a child in the Congo dies every day so that they can plug in their phones.” Have you ever wondered how...
Happy solstice! Winter has officially arrived, and, with it, nature’s invitation to cozy up, slow down, and get some rest. As this fall has...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion, was published last year shortly before the author's death. The book contains twelve essays ranging...
The Matchmakers are happy to welcome our Adult Summer Reading Coordinators, Jen Mihalik and Adam McConville, as our guest bloggers today! They...
Summer is flying by, and this year’s Adult Summer Reading Program is in full swing! Your neighbors have been earning raffle entries for reading...
National Fair Housing Month celebrates the passage of the Fair Housing Act in April, 1968, a national law that prohibits discrimination in the sale,...