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Booktalking "A World Away" by Nancy Grossman
Sixteen-year-old Eliza is going through rumspringa, an adolescent exploration that occurs in Amish communities. For the summer, she is lucky to go to Chicago to work as a nanny for Rachel and Sam and...
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Booktalking "Duke" by Kirby Larson
Hobie Hanson's father is fighting in World War II, and now the Dogs for Defense is looking for any German Shepherds that people can possibly spare for the war effort. Someone brings up the idea of...
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Around The World in 80+ Children's Books
Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale Vietnam Grandfather's Dream by Holly Keller
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July Reader's Den: "Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons &...
As a child I played Dungeons & Dragons, watched the cartoon, and also bought the requisite toys that followed it. Later on I read the books, and still read many of the novels that were part of the...
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New City Jobs Posted... Be Prepared with Test Books from the Library!
The City of New York has just begun a new fiscal year, starting on July 1. With this new year comes new opportunities within the employment sector. A wave of new jobs and their applicable tests have...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of July 28
The New York State Department of Labor and DISH Network Services will present an On-Site Job Fair to recruit International Customer Service Representatives (Bilingual) on Wednesday, July 30, 2014,...
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Imagination Academy 2014 - Week 2
Week 2 (Fiction II) of Imagination Academy started with a bang! pop! POW! on Tuesday, July 15. Author Sophie Bell introduced the readers to her bubbly superheroines, the Ultra-Violets. Using her...
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A Pipeline of Well-Trained Talent: Year Up New York
Almost 6 million young adults in this country are facing social and economic injustice. They lack access to higher education and to the economic mainstream. On the other hand, our economy needs help,...
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July Reader's Den: "Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons &...
Welcome back to the Reader's Den for part three of Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt. In Part two we discussed the chapters on...
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Beat the Heat with 8 Chilling Mysteries
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What to Read Next: Spies & Assassins and John Green/TFIOS Read-a-Likes
Summertime and the living is easy or so they say. All that free time but what to do? More importantly what to read? There’s way too many choices these days and what happens when you go into a library...
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Better Late Than Never
A recent Mental Floss article about overdue library books reminded me of a book the Mid-Manhattan Library received in the mail last year. It was mailed from Arizona. It was overdue. Its due date:...
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Celebrando el Centenario del Canal de Panamá (1904-2014)
Pero la literatura también relata la cruda realidad de Panamá. Este enorme trabajo de construcción costó muchas vidas. Miles de trabajadores sucumbieron a varias enfermedades de la época, tales como...
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Celebrating the Panama Canal's Centennial (1904-2014)
Silver People: Voices From the Panama Canal by Engle, Margarita A fictionalized account of the Panama Canal. Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and...
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美國報稅與財產揭露 : 全球第一本美國稅法中文化巨著 || US taxation and foreign asset reporting
Chi 336.2009 Lü, Xuming 美國報稅與財產揭露 : 全球第一本美國稅法中文化巨著 || Meiguo bao shui yu cai chan jie lu : quan qiu di yi ben Meiguo shui fa Zhong wen hua ju zhu = US taxation and foreign asset reporting 作者 : 呂旭明...
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Cultivating IT Talent Through Apprenticeships and Collaborations
This is the Department of Labor blog post authored by Steve Wiggins, executive vice president and chief information officer at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. In his blog Steve talked about...
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Booktalking "Purge" by Sarah Littman
16-year-old Janie enters the euphemistically named Golden Slopes for treatment of her bulimia. There is a sharp divide at the facility between the "barfers" and the "starvers." Boys are also included...
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Booktalking "Pointe" by Brandy Colbert
Theo is a high school junior torn between becoming a pro ballerina or finding another job. She and all of her friends are entranced with drug use, and she spends her time at parties and navigating her...
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Women in Trades: An Apprenticeship Success Story
This is the Department of Labor blog post authored by Connie Ashbrook, Executive Director of Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. In her blog, she pointed out that the most challenging obstacle women have to...
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«...À CAUSE DE LA COULEUR DU BLÉ"
Hommage à Antoine de Saint-Exupery La bibliothèque Mid-Manhattan et l'association Remembering Saint-Exupéry ont célébré la fête nationale de la France avec une conférence exceptionnelle, dont le thème...
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