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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - November 4th, 2012
For the week of November 4, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback advice & misc.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your...
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Art and Low-Vision: A Multi-Sensory Museum Experience
Why would someone with low vision choose to become an artist or feel passion about viewing and visiting great works of art in an art museum? As a senior librarian at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and...
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Reader's Den: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Week 1
"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not." Erin Morgenstern's literary debut, The Night Circus, begins with this intoxicating...
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A Pic Pick For The Eloquent Child
Today's Pic Pick is...Lester's Dreadful SweatersBy debut author-illustrator K.G. Campbell.Ages 7 and UpFor the eloquent child who's surpassed Fancy Nancy and her well-versed prototypes comes a more...
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Thanksgiving Recipes
A confession: I've never cooked a turkey. Sides, yes. Desserts, of course. But a turkey? Nope. I leave that to the experts. For me, turkey is the least exciting part of Thanksgiving. Sure, it may be...
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Novedades de Noviembre 2012: Fantasía, acción, realidad y romance ¡Aquí a tú...
Mientras la madre naturaleza se toma su tiempo para volver a favorecernos con días mejores y menos tormentosos que los anteriores, esta gran variedad de obras recientemente adquiridas de ficción y...
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Free Programs at New Dorp Library: November 2012
Winter is coming up fast, and once the weather starts to get worse, it may become harder to visit the Library.If you stay home and eat turkey, we'll understand...But here are a bunch of excellent...
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October Reader's Den: "Ready Player One" Wrap-Up
Welcome back to Week 4 of the Reader’s Den for the book Ready Player One. I would like to thank our NYPL readers for waiting for this last installment of the October Readers Den due to Hurricane Sandy...
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The Lost Musicals: Redhead
Musicals are often most associated with women, or at least with divas: the larger than life stars that musicals are built around. To get a show produced you want to have a decent score and story, but...
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Holiday Open House at the New York Public Library
On Sunday, December 4, 2011, the annual Holiday Open House was held at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on an unseasonably warm day. Prior to 1 p.m., the start of the party, the line outside the 42nd...
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My Library: Philosophy Class
The Jefferson Market Library continues to offer multi-session courses in subjects taught by college professors — just like you'd take in an adult continuing education program at a university. Recently...
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Art and Low-Vision: A List of Accessible Museums in New York City
Museums around New York City are offering visitors with low-vision or are blind the opportunity to experience and learn about great works of art. Through monthly verbal description and touch tours,...
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Borimix 2012 Puerto Rican Fest and the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Miguel Trelles, one of the hands behind the scenes of Festival Borimix, is the kind of New Yorker who gives you hope.After Sandy blacked out and knocked us off our hinges — like the Lower East Side and...
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Reader's Den: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Week 2
The Night Circus is crafted in lyrical and elaborate prose. Sometimes it even borders on the ornamental. The language and descriptions are fitting, however, considering the overriding theme of time's...
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Business Books from "The Economist," October 13, 2012
The October 13, 2012 Economist included its quarterly business book reviews. Here is a listing.For those interested in the articles, you can find them through some of our electronic resources (I...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - November 11th, 2012
For the week of November 11, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your library...
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Hurricane Sandy Recovery Information
This post had a temporary home while nypl.org was offline during the storm. Many on the east coast are still without power or in the process of cleaning up their homes; some public services and...
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Chinese American Food: Odds and Ends
Did you know that some of your favorite dishes from a Chinese take out restaurant have interesting stories behind them? The origin of their names, the ingredients used and how they were conceived and...
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LES Heritage Film Series: The '80s, Part 1 — DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN with...
I'm sorry to shout. But we're showing Desperately Seeking Susan and DIRECTOR SUSAN SEIDELMAN WILL BE HERE. So if ever you were going to attend a Lower East Side Heritage '80s film, this is the one. Ms....
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Food Special Libraries and Museums
I am a vegan, natural health food nut, and now I am on a gluten-free diet, so I was interested to see what food libraries are out there. I used to be a big fan of the Food Network Channel; I loved...
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