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March Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
A new approach to health care reform ... 20 years of Harlem Street Portraits ... humanist architecture ... The Extreme Life of the Sea ... New York City's unbuilt subways ... mothers ... the power of...
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Monuments Men Reading List
The Monuments Men film was a slightly fictionalized version of the incredible true story of the activities of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program at the end of World War II. Though much of...
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Great Albums You Might Have Missed: Black 47's Fire of Freedom (1993)
I was sitting shotgun on DJ duty during a long volleyball road trip back in high school when I put on a new tape (yes, cassette days) that I was loving of a band I had recently seen playing live at...
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Booktalking "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Oskar Schindler was an extraordinary character; he saved Leon Leyson (formerly known as Leib Lejzon), his family, and over a thousand Jews from near certain death in the concentration camps, not once,...
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March 2014 DVD Releases... Reserve Your Copy Now!
In the month of March, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.Curious to check out recent Oscar nominees and wins? Then check out the March...
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Three Reads: Baseball
Despite the threats of snow and the cruelly low temperatures, my favorite sign of spring arrived a few weeks ago. No three words were ever sweeter to my ear than "Pitchers and catchers", followed by a...
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Girl Power: Books for Bold Women
Smart, strong women deserve books filled with smart, strong female characters. Luckily, there are many books with protagonists who speak out for justice, make courageous choices, and know that...
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Booktalking "Sunday You Learn to Box" by Bil Wright
14-year-old Louis Bowman grows up with a mother who puts holes in him, “Daddy Ben,” whose Sunday beatings masquerade as boxing lessons, and stranger on the train Ed MacMillan, who attempts to rape him....
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Listen to This! Teens and Audiobooks
Recently, our library received a donation of several audiobooks for teens, and that gave me an idea for another Teen Advisory Group project.My plan was that we would listen to sections of several...
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Vandamm's Pygmalion
By the time that you read this post, the exhibition Pioneering Poet of Light: Florence Vandamm & the Vandamm Studio will have been de-installed. The photograph and key sheets will be returned to...
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Small Business Administration Empowers Women Entrepreneurs
In honor of Women's History Month, Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Women's Business Ownership invites you to join the conversation on "Office Hours," "How to Sell Online" and "STEM and...
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Booktalking "'They're Bankrupting Us!' and 20 Other Myths...
Historically, there have been conflicts between employers and labor unions. Labor unions exist to bargain on the workers’ behalf for better working and living conditions. They are democratic in...
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Time Machine: Interstitial Moment, VHS vs. Communism
The return of Daylight Saving Time means that we have all just experienced a temporal displacement. Let’s set Time Machine back by a small increment and briefly revisit the VHS format. I want to...
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The Reader's Den: Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save...
Flannery O'Connor's"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" was originally published in the 1955 short story collection, A Good Man is Hard to Find. Like many of her short stories, it centers around the...
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Booktalking "Jump Into Jazz" by Minda Goodman Kraines
This is a dance book that informs the reader about the African-American influence on jazz, and it also gives beginning dancers information that will prevent injury and help them learn how to dance...
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Oral History Project starting at 115th Street Library
Do you like to meet new people? Are you a good listener? Maybe you are passionate about local history, or the arts, or politics. If any of these describe you, allow me to introduce an exciting new...
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Writers' Club@Columbus: Snow, Haikus and a Door Opens and Shuts
We began our journey with the Writers' Club@Columbus on February 10th 2014—I apologize for the time lag folks but it does take a minute sometimes to get cracking… even with technology and all… so...
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Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Performing Arts: Hearing is...
You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore interesting...
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Will Bicycles Save the Human Race?
An American entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen once said that “The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.” Still, despite widespread interest in bicycling it is the car that is the primary...
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February's Top Titles
Top Circulating Adult FictionPrivate L.A. by James PattersonRipper by Isabel AllendeFirst love by James PattersonConfessions of a Wild Child by Jackie CollinsThe Walking Dead by Robert KirkmanAnd the...
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