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New York Times Read Alikes: November 8, 2015
A legal thriller and an intricately plotted gruesome mystery, Grisham and Galbraith join the top five this week.#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham, some enduring...
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Reader's Den November - Hell Hath No Fury: Gone Girl, Medea, and the Allure...
Girl meets Boy. Girl marries Boy. Boy meets Another Woman.Girl goes out of her mind with rage. Big Time.This familiar trope plays out in a complex web of nail-biting intrigue in Gillian Flynn'spopular...
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Rock 'n' Read: Colleen Green
“To me the library represents peace, warmth, and understanding.”Colleen Green's musical output began as one-woman lower-than-lo-fi cassette recordings made in her bedroom. More apparent than her love...
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Booktalking "Another Day" by David Levithan
Rhiannon has a boyfriend called Justin. She desperately wants him to fulfill her needs, but he falls short in many ways. However, she is blown away by another soul that she encounters called,...
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Podcast #85: Library Lions on Truth and Inspiration
Subscribe on iTunes.Each year Library Lions honors several distinguished individuals for outstanding achievements in their respective fields of arts, letters, and scholarship. This year we are thrilled...
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Printing Women: Diane Victor
St. George's Despair, Diane Victor, Print, 2012.While the exhibition Printing Women focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection of female printmakers from the 16th to 19th centuries, it...
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Free Job Training: Mobile Dev Corps
Mobile Dev Corps is an intensive training program designed to prepare New Yorkers for careers in mobile development, one of the most in-demand skills in the tech ecosystem.In direct response to...
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Emigrant City: An Introduction
NYPL Labs and the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy are excited to announce the launch of Emigrant City, the Library's newest, online participatory...
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Emigrant City: Two Stories
Emigrant City is a project by New York Public Library’s NYPL Labs, in cooperation with the Library’s Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, and the...
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Zetta Elliott Comes to KidsLIVE!
Author and educator Zetta Elliott is known for her poetry, plays, essays, novels, and stories for children. She was born and raised in Canada but has been in the U.S. for over 20 years. She is coming...
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Alter Your Reading... Alternate History Picks Sure to Make You Wonder
What is Alternate history, you ask? Think of it as a kind of "what if" question. The stories will often be centered on a single event that differs from the history we know. What if the South had won...
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What Are You Reading? Harlem Globetrotters Edition
I caught up with a few of the Harlem Globetrotters while they were on a shoot at the William F. Passannante Ballfield in the West Village. A nearby elementary school uses the park as a playground...
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Three from Semiotext(e)
In this blog series "Three (or More)," I intend to write longer reviews of three (or more) books based on same publisher, theme, or book structures. In this first post I am starting with the...
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NaNoWriMo@MML Week 1: So Far, So... Okay
Walter L. Grahams of Gettysburg, Pa., Civilian Conservation Corps typing a document. Image ID: 1260438Week one of National Novel Writing Month is officially underway! We're just getting into the swing...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of November 8
SAGEWorks Boot Camp - Enrollment Now open for November 30th. SAGEWorks assists people 40 years and older in learning relevant, cutting-edge job search skills in a LGBT- friendly environment. This 2...
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NYPLarcade: International Games Day 2015
International Games Day is an annual event now in its 9th year, which celebrates play and games at libraries all over the world. This year, it will take place on Saturday, November 21.We will be...
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The Legacy of a Librarian: Carolyn Ulrich's Little Magazines
Princeton University Press, 1946University of Chicago Press, 2015The publication of a wonderful new bookThe Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2015), is a unique...
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Staff Picks: A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
Every month, library staff members are bringing you 100 books we love—culled from the millions upon millions out in the world—via our interactive Staff Picks browse tool.This month, we're going with a...
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125th Street Library: Planning for the Future
125th Street, Harlem Branch of the N.Y, Free Circulating Library, 218 E, 125th St., which became 125th St. Branch of N.Y.P.L.With sky high windows and large, endless space, 125th Street Library oozes a...
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Announcing Bookshare: A New Partnership for Accessible eBooks!
NYPL is proud to announce a new partnership with Bookshare, making 370,000 accessible e-books free to patrons with print disabilities.Every New Yorker with an eligible print disability will now have...
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