Today is International Cat Day! Around the world cats are beloved occupants of our homes. This month read some books with cats featured as sassy magical creatures, mystery solving detectives, and emotional supportive side characters. Also discover more about the history of these animals and what we can learn from them. 

Fiction 

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting t...

She and Her Cat

Death By Beach Read

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The Guest Cat

Like Cats and Dogs

The Cat who Saved Books

My Cat Yugoslavia

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Sit in the Sun

A Cat's Tale

What Cats Want

The Internet Is for Cats

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Prefer eBooks and audiobooks… 

2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas eBook | audiobook 

Death by Beach Read eBook |audiobook

Like Cats and Dogs eBook | audiobook 

On Cats audiobook 

Mala’s Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II eBook | audiobook

Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat  audiobook 

101 Amazing Facts About Cats eBook

A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life eBook 

 July is Disability Pride Month! Did you know that the first ever Disability Pride Day was held in Boston in 1990 the same year the Americans with Disabilities Act became a law? Explore more books about trailblazing activists and stories that center the lives of people with a variety of disabilities. 

Memoir

Haben

The Pretty One

Being Heumann

Deaf Utopia

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Disability Pride

A Disability History of the United St...

Crip Kinship

The Collected Schizophrenias

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Fiction 

True Biz

Kissing Kosher

The Frangipani Tree Mystery

Just by Looking at Him

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Prefer eBooks and audiobooks… 

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century eBook | audiobook

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space eBook | audiobook

We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation eBook | audiobook

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body eBook | audiobook

What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt eBook | audiobook

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally eBook | audiobook

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice eBook | audiobook

Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life eBook | audiobook

The Kiss Quotient eBook | audiobook

Good Kings Bad Kings eBook | audiobook

Bet on It eBook | audiobook

Starling Days eBook | audiobook

So Lucky eBook | audiobook

A Room Called Earth eBook | audiobook

Next week is World Water Week! Water is a vital resource here on Earth. Explore some of these books to discover more about the impact it’s had on history, the benefits it brings, to perils it causes, and our fragile relationship with this precious liquid that makes up 71% of the planet. 

Nonfiction

How to Read Water

The Three Ages of Water

Strong Like Water

The Frozen Water Trade

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Charleston

Blue Mind

The Water-Wise Home

Desperate

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Fiction

All the Water I've Seen Is Running

Water over Stones

The House of Deep Water

The Water Museum

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Prefer eBooks and audiobooks… 

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother eBook | audiobook

Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World eBook | audiobook 

The Covenant of Water eBook | audiobook

Flesh and Bone and Water eBook | audiobook

Choppy Water eBook | audiobook

The North Water eBook | audiobook

Something in the Water eBook | audiobook

A Song Below Water eBook | audiobook

The Water Dancer eBook | audiobook

We Are Water eBook | audiobook 

July is National Outdoor Month! Find time to do some exploring this summer whether it’s a just walk in the neighborhood, a camping trip, or an outdoors adventure, there is nature to discover everywhere.

Nonfiction

Will to Wild

The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs

Nature Swagger

52 Ways to Walk

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Spirit Run

Vitamin N

Fat Girls Hiking

Better Living Through Birding

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Fiction

The Lifeguards

Lola at Last

Something Wild & Wonderful

Enjoy the View

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Why We Swim eBook | audiobook

The Invention of Nature : Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World eBook | audiobook

On Trails: An Exploration eBook | audiobook

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace eBook | audiobook

Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship eBook | audiobook

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey through every National Park eBook | audiobook

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman who Saved the Appalachian Trail eBook | audiobook

Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America  eBook

The River at Night eBook | audiobook

Bear With Me Now audiobook 

June is Pride Month! Celebrate LGBTQ+ lives and histories by checking out some of these fiction and nonfiction books. 

Fiction

The New Life

Rainbow Rainbow

Boys Come First

Lavender House

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Queer

Headcase

Before We Were Trans

Hola Papi

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Sisters in the Life

I Am Ace

Victory

The Invisibles

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Prefer eBook and eAudibook options. June is also National Audiobook Appreciation Month!

Sorry, Bro eBook | audiobook 

After Sappho eBook | audiobook

Your Driver is Waiting eBook | audiobook

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen eBook | audiobook 

The Verifiers eBook | audiobook

Yerba Buena eBook | audiobook 

Siren Queen eBook | audiobook 

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes who Changed the World eBook | audiobook

Tomorrow will be Different : Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality eBook | audiobook

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals eBook | audiobook 

We have Always been Here : A Queer Muslim Memoir eBook | audiobook 

Dear Senthuran : a Black Spirit Memoir eBook | audiobook

June is African American Music Appreciation Month! Check out these books to learn more about some celebrated musicians as well as the long history of African American musical creativity.  

Biography 

I'm Possible

My Love Story

Vibrate Higher

Shout, Sister, Shout!

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Showtime at the Apollo

Shine Bright

Hidden in the Mix

Dvorák's Prophecy

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Fiction

Final Revival of Opal & Nev (Export)

Wild Women and the Blues

The Violin Conspiracy

Queen of Urban Prophecy

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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop eBook | audiobook

A Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance eBook | audiobook

The Beautiful Ones eBook | audiobook

On the Come Up eBook | audiobook

Wild Women and the Blues eBook | audiobook

Let me Hear a Rhyme eBook | audiobook

Love Radio eBook | audiobook 

April showers have brought May flowers to the library! Come check out these flower related books and enjoy the Spring plants in bloom. 

Nonfiction

Flower Color Guide

A Victorian Flower Dictionary

On Flowers

By Any Other Name

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Onward and Upward in the Garden

Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession i...

Japanese Paper Flowers

Botanical Baking

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Fiction

A Hundred Flowers

American Wildflowers: A Literary Fiel...

The Language of Flowers

Furious Flower

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Prefer eBook and eAudibook options… 

Fresh Water for Flowers eBook | audiobook

The Scent of Burnt Flowers eBook 

Peach Blossom Spring eBook | audiobook

All the Flowers in Paris eBook | audiobook

A Memory of Violets eBook | audiobook

Flowers on Main eBook | audiobook

Daughter’s of the Flower Fragrant Garden eBook | audiobook

Dog Flowers eBook | audiobook 

This month enjoy spending some time gazing up at the stars with these star related books! Especially since April is Global Astronomy Month.

Fiction

When Stars Rain Down

The Map of Salt and Stars

Stars in an Italian Sky

Light From Uncommon Stars

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On a Night of a Thousand Stars

Star-Crossed

Brighter Stars

A River of Stars

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Nonfiction

What We See in the Stars

Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars

Folded Paper German Stars

The Stars in Our Pockets

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A Bend in the Stars eBook | audiobook

Written in the Stars eBook | audiobook

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes eBook | audiobook

The Dog Stars eBook | audiobook

The Forest of Vanishing Stars eBook | audiobook

Raft of Stars eBook | audiobook

Sparks like Stars eBook | audiobook

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars eBook | audiobook

Reclaim the Stars eBook | audiobook 

March is Women’s History Month! Check out some of these books written by or about local women from Massachusetts.

Nonfiction Books

These Fevered Days

Dear Abigail

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy

Maria W. Stewart, America's First Bla...

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The Breakthrough

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Stor...

The Age of Phillis

The Autistic Brain

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Fiction books by Massachusetts Authors

Karma and Other Stories

From Jo March's Attic

The Namesake

Ben and Beatriz

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American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World eBook | audiobook

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe eBook | audiobook

Red Comet: the Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath eBook | audiobook

Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything eBook

Wild Women of Boston eBook

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars                     eBook | audiobook

Why not Me? eBook | audiobook 

February is Black History month and today is Valentine’s Day! Celebrate both by checking out some of these Black Romance books.

Fiction

Love in Colour

The Davenports

Honey Girl

On Rotation

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Where We End & Begin

A Dash of Salt and Pepper

Have We Met?

D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding

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Nonfiction

Black Love Matters

Queer Love in Color

Enemies in Love

I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife

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Happy Endings eBook | audiobook 

Act Your Age, Eve Brown eBook | audiobook

Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell eBook | audiobook

I’m So (Not) Over You eBook | audiobook

Real Men Knit eBook | audiobook

The Hookup Plan eBook | audiobook

Honey and Spice eBook | audiobook

By the Book eBook | audiobook

Yonder eBook | audiobook 

From Scratch eBook | audiobook