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小学生最好奇的100 問题 || Xiao xue sheng zui hao qi de 100 ge wen ti
J-Chi 500 Xiao xue sh小学生最好奇的100 問题 || Xiao xue sheng zui hao qi de 100 ge wen ti原著者, Uri Production ; 譯者, 鄺紹賢台北市 : 三采文化出版事業有限公司 ISSN:...
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5 Umpires Who Are In The Hall of Fame
Plate umpire via Wikimedia CommonsHey! Well, spring training is nearly complete here, we’re less than two short weeks away until the 2015 Major League Baseball campaign gets going. But as the players...
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Orquesta en su casa: LPA at Casita Maria
RCA Victor catalogue promoting Mexican early sound film star Libertad Lamarque. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded SoundAs well as being a research center for The New York Public Library, The...
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Waiting for "Empire" Reading and Viewing List
Anyone even vaguely aware of pop culture right now has probably heard of the television show Empire. It recently became one of the biggest new shows on television. For those unfamiliar, it is the story...
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Book Notes From The Underground: Books From The Future!
Running out of things to read? Panicking because your “to read” pile has dwindled down to 10 books or so? Not to worry! Here are some well-reviewed new titles coming out next month that you can add to...
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Ten YA Retellings of Snow White
You know that romantic tale of a young woman who runs away to the woods to escape a wicked Queen. Here are several retellings of the fairy tale that appeal to modern day teens.Nameless by Lili St. Crow...
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Remembering the Women of Slavery
Since my graduate school days in Paris, I have been researching and writing and talking about the slave trade and slavery. On March 25, I had the honor of doing the latter during the International Day...
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Agatha Christie's Top 5 Plot Twists
Agatha Christie introduced a number of classic motifs to the crime/mystery genre. A murder is committed, there are many suspects, each harboring a shameful secret, and the detective reveals these...
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Essential Longform: The Best Nirvana Reads
Nirvana pioneered grunge rock, but they're also one of those bands for which the cult of personality is equally as strong a pull as the music. When you ask most Nirvana fans about the band, they'll...
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30 Days of Poetry
De rhami garnet. Image ID: 1119520April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate here at The New York Public Library, thirty of our librarians and other staff members selected a poem. We recorded them...
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Children's Literary Salon in Retrospect: Accuracy in Illustration on March 7,...
Watched them go off with their skates. Image ID: 1698188I have never thought about how illustration transmits information in children's nonfiction before this salon, and it was illuminating to learn...
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April Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Come join us for an Author @ the Library talk this April at Mid-Manhattan Library to hear distinguished non-fiction authors discuss their work and answer your questions. Author talks take place at...
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Booktalking "Why Smart People Hurt" by Eric Maisel
Natural psychology is a 21st Century invention whose basic tenet is that a sense of meaning and purpose in life provides gratification and well-being. The author discusses one billion, or 15% of the 7...
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These Books Opened Our Eyes to Another Culture
Our reader asked us for a book that would open her eyes to a new culture. Here are the titles our staff recommended.I read Exodus by Leon Uris when I was in 7th/8th grade. When I finished it, I...
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Podcast #54: Jeffrey Deitch on Art and Spectacle
Subscribe on iTunes.Jeffrey Deitch may best be known for his visionary gallery Deitch Projects, but now the artist-curator-dealer is adding a new title: writer. In honor of the release of his book Live...
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Career Opportunity: Electronic Health Records Training
Jumpstart your career at Computer Center For Visually Impaired People (CCVIP).According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a high percentage of jobs in Electronic Health Records Management (EHR) go...
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NYPL's Top Authors Under 35: 15 Years of Young Lions Fiction
For fifteen years, the Young Lions Fiction Award has recognized outstanding novels and short story collections written by authors under the age of thirty-five. Established by Rick Moody, Ethan Hawke,...
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30 Days of Poetry: A Kid's Eye-View of WPA-Era New York City
I often surprise people when I admit that one of my favorite books here at the Library is not a centuries-old icon of the history of printed word, but is instead a humble little book called The...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: April 2015
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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Top Sellers at the Schomburg Gift Shop
Looking for something great to read? The Schomburg Gift Shop has got you covered. From non-fiction titles by our very own Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis...
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