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Booktalking "Higher Education?" by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
All of the talk these days is about the rising cost of tertiary education. Is it really necessary for so many people to go to college? There is such an expectation for people to go to college that many...
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Avant-Garde Periodicals Meet Digital Archives
The Library's research collections of little magazines and avant garde journals are tremendous and as curator for small press materials I was excited to attend “Remediating the Avant Garde: Magazines...
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Homemade Natural Beauty Products Made Easy
The Epiphany Library is offering two workshops in April on making beauty products at home. While in the class we are specifically only making two items, lip balm and body scrub (both of which are...
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Booktalking "Rein It In: An A Circuit Novel" by Georgina Bloomberg...
A Circuit—one of the most competitive horse show circuits available. Teenagers who are both horse crazy and relationship crazy, sneaking quick kisses and dating in between all of the preparation for...
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When Experience Pays: Paid vs. Unpaid Internships
"Can I get paid for my internship?" is a common question often asked by new college graduates. Laura Fortman, the principal deputy administrator for the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department...
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The Nican Mopohua and Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Among the many treasures of the New York Public Library are documents created as the New World was explored and settled by Europeans and a hybrid culture emerged. James Lenox (1880-1880) whose books,...
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Tributo a Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
Gabriel García Márquez, el gran autor galardonado con el Premio Nobel de la Literatura acaba de fallecer a la de edad de 87 años. García Márquez ha sido considerado uno de los más grandes escritores de...
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Best of New Music (April 2014 Edition)
A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.Asleep on the Floodplain by Six Organs of Admittance (2011)Asleep on the Floodplain is a rich and...
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我是落花生的女儿 || Wo shi Luohuasheng de nü er
Chi B Xu, Yanji Wo shi Luohuasheng de nü er == 我是落花生的女儿许燕吉著 湖南人民出版社 ISSN: 9787543897250本书是一位80岁高龄的传奇女子许燕吉的人生自传，以近百年的人生体验，告诉你一个真实得近乎残酷的20世纪中国史！...
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NYC Teen Author Festival: March 2014
We were lucky to have the 6th annual Teen Author Festival at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in March again this year. Author David Levithan has been hosting this informative gathering of teen...
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A Trip Down Memory Lane: The Lasting Influence of Illmatic
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of Nas's debut album, Illmatic. On Wednesday, I had the privilege to attend the opening of the Tribeca Film Festival to watch my friend and former colleague Erik...
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Booktalking "Double Act" by Jacqueline Wilson
10-year-old identical twins Ruby and Garnet Barker do everything together, and they have lots of fun in the process. Ruby is outgoing and energetic, while Garnet is more reserved and careful in her...
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Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1928-2014)
The staff of the Library was saddened to hear of the death of the renowned Latin American writer and journalist, Gabriel García Márquez, who died at his home in Mexico City on Thursday, April 17, 2014....
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Booktalking "A Caldecott Celebration" by Leonard Marcus
On the 70th anniversary of the inception of the Caldecott Medal, Leonard Marcus wrote this wonderful edition. Included are seven Caldecott Medal winners, one from each decade that the prize has been...
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A Black Tulip Comes to the Pforzheimer Collection
Here at the Pforzheimer Collection, our big acquisition of the year is a black tulip, one of the rarest items, in the Shelleyan world: Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 1810, Shelley's first book...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of April 21
Community Prevention Alternatives for Families in Crisis Center and Martha Flores Vazquez Flushing Medical Center invites you to a Job Fair on Thursday, April 24, 2014, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at 45-05 45th...
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網際網路應用實務 || Wang ji wang lu ying yong shi wu
Chi 004.678 Wang, Liqin 網際網路應用實務王麗琴著 新北市全華研究社 ISSN: 9789572189689從網路的基本概念、連線方式開始介紹，再逐步引導讀者了解網路的進階設定，及學習資源搜查、通訊、最新娛樂軟體、電子商務及資訊安全等網際網路應用。Special thanks goes to Hung-yun Chang at Mid-Manhattan...
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一本书读懂西方艺术史 || A Very Short View of Western Art
Chi 709.4 Yi Ben Shu 一本书读懂西方艺术史 == Yi ben shu dong xi fang yi shu shi杨子曼 编译 经济科学出版社...
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Palaces of Consumption: The History of Department Stores
A.T. Stewart opened New York City’s first department store in 1846. New Yorkers flocked to the palazzo style “Marble Palace," on Broadway between Chambers and Reade Street to browse through a wide...
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Code Walkthrough: Libretto
In February, I released the first prototype of the Android App, Libretto, a multimodal e-book platform designed to allow readers to compare different versions of a musical as it develops over time, and...
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