August 2012
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From our friends at LIVE FROM THE NYPL!
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NYPL closed this weekend
Don’t forget: NYPL will be closed September 1-3 in observance of Labor Day. While you can’t visit a branch in person, you can still check out e-books, peruse the digital gallery, download the free Biblion app, or check out one of our awesome online projects, like What’s on the Menu?.
Have a great long weekend, everyone.
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The Gutenberg Bible turns 556 today... or maybe it... →
Currently on display in the Rose Main Reading Room, NYPL is honored to have a beautiful edition of the Gutenberg Bible, the book that changed the world. But how old is it, really?
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Art Exhibition Pathfinders at the NYPL Mulberry... →
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Join the NYPL Book Club →
Read along with the NYPL Book Club, and discuss Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Then join us online to discuss the summer bestseller on September 12th!
“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.” - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
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I would rather be dead than not read.
– Happy Birthday to author, journalist, and Library Lion, Annie Proulx!
For even more information about the books Ms. Proulx can’t live without, have a listen here!
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Top Ten Back-to-High-School Books →
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Dessert Trucks at the Library
You only have a few more weeks to take advantage of the food trucks parked on Fifth and 40th outside of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. We’re happy to share that dessert trucks are joining in the fun - here’s the full schedule for the rest of August. (Though the lunch trucks will soon be gone, don’t worry, you have plenty of time to see Lunch Hour NYC - the show is on...
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10 Great New Graphic Novels for Children →
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Happy 100th birthday to the late great Julia Child!!! In October of 2007, The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars held the special program JULIA CHILD IN AMERICAN in which a group of Culinary historians came together to discuss the complex legacy of Ms. Child. Above is the audio from that program. Bon Appetit!
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Medals That Were Won Not in Pentathlon or 100... →
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Got Olympic Fever?
Check out this Olympic reading list by Librarian Robert Gibbs, of St. George Library Center. Included are many memoirs from current and former Olympic medal winners.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of...
– Maya Angelou
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