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Booktalking "The Summer of May" by Cecilia Galante
May and Olive text each other all day long. May's fiery temperament is calmed by Olive's gentle ways; they seem to complement each other... until they stop understanding each other.English teacher...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of April 26
Isabella Visiting Care, Inc. will present a recruitment on Monday, April 27, 2015, 10 am - 2 pm, for Home Health Aide (15 openings) at NYS Department of Labor, 9 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY...
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Outlaw Baseball! The Federal League of 1914-1915
Hey! Guess what!? The 2015 baseball season is underway! We've been having lots of fun so far with the Mets prodigious win streak, the Cubs and the White Sox calling up phenoms, Kris Bryant and Carlos...
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Salute to Narrative Nonfiction: Travel and Adventure
Narrative or creative nonfiction is somewhat newly recognized genre. Naturally, as librarians we have a great appreciation for the research, the primary source documents and interviews, but it is the...
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Booktalking "Goal!" by Mina Javaherbin
Ajani and friends play football in South Africa... after he has finished his homework and gotten water from the well. He joyfully calls his friends outside to join him in the game. Overturned buckets...
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Ask the Author: Danette Vigilante
Danette Vigilante grew up in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, NY. She is now a resident of Staten Island along with her husband, two daughters, two puppies and a cat with a bad attitude. Danette is the...
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Essential Longform: The Best Harper Lee Reads
To Kill a Mockingbird, at this point, seems almost to be the essence of literary life for American schoolchildren. It's a perennial favorite in the English classroom that, unlike many other examples of...
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Podcast #58: Frank Bruni on College
Subscribe on iTunes.Frank Bruni is a New York Times columnist, who has written four nonfiction books. His most recent, Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania,...
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Great Kills Book Discussion: Ronald Kessler's The First Family Detail
The White House. Image ID: 96343On May 2, the Great Kills Book Discussion Group will convene to discuss Ronald Kessler’s The First Family Detail, which provides riveting and highly astonishing facts as...
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Books to Read Before Kindergarten
We asked our Children’s Librarians to select three books every child should know about before kindergarten. Here are their picks.Freight Train by Donald Crews Who doesn’t love a train book? Simple...
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Ask the Author: Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming comes to Books at Noon next Wednesday, May 6 to discuss his latest work, Not My Father's Son. We asked him six questions about what he likes to read.When and where do you like to read? If...
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Book TV: Author Interviews and More
Image ID: 106136You might say that I am an addict of Book TV, but I am not sure if the 12-step program works for this type of addiction. Ever since I downsized my cable into a more affordable option, I...
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Celebrating Our Voices During National Poetry Month
Actresses (Front L-R) Laurie Carlos, Paula Moss, Aku Kadogo, Trazana Beverly; (Top L-R) Rise Collins, Janet League, Seret Scott in scene fr. the play "For Colored Girls Who Have Condsidered Suicide...
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Share Your Stories: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the New York...
Manhattan: Central Park - [Philharmonic in Central Park] Image ID: 718405FThis year, the New York Philharmonic is celebrating 50 years of free concerts in New York City’s parks. Since 1965, over 14...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of May 3
Isabella Visiting Care, Inc. will present a recruitment on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 10 am - 1 pm, for Home Health Aide (50 openings) at Flushing Workforce 1 Career Center, 138-60 Barclay Avenue, Flushing,...
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May Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Dance in unexpected places... walking through literary New York... New York's incredible abandoned spaces... photographing fashion's trendsetters... recipes in literature... unusual hiking...
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Ask the Author: Eric-Shabazz Larkin
Don't miss Eric-Shabazz Larkin in the KidsLIVE! Author series. He will read from his new book A Moose Boosh at the Classon’s Point Library on May 5. We asked the author a few questions to get to know...
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130 Years of Good Housekeeping Tips
On May 2, 1885, the first issue of Good Housekeeping was published, and today it is one of the five surviving "Seven Sisters" of women's magazines. In some ways, the word "housekeeping" alone seems...
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Children's Book Week is May 4-10, 2015!
This Children's Literary Salon was on April 26, 2015 at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Children's Book Council (CBC) Communications Director, Nicole Deming, gave a presentation about Children's...
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Interview with Steven Fullwood, Curator and Author of "Black Gay Genius"
Steven FullwoodFarrah Lopez, the Schomburg Center's Communications Pre-Professional, spoke to Steven Fullwood, Assistant Curator for our Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, about his...
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