Welcome to The Librarian Is In, The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

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How do libraries help immigrants and underserved communities? Find out with NYPL's very own Adriana Blancarte-Hayward. Plus: major love for great journalism, time travel, ghosts, Frank's hair, frozen yogurt, and Salt-n-Pepa.

What We're Reading Now

The five finalists for the Bernstein award for the best journalism of the year:

• The Morning They Came for Us by Janine di Giovanni
• Dark Money by Jane Mayer
• Cast Away by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
• Pandemic by Sonia Shah
• Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

"Journalism in the Age of Trump" event:

• Video: Author Talks: Journalism in the Age of Trump
• Audio: Author Talks: Journalism in the Age of Trump

Enigma Variations by André Aciman

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December by George Saunders

Guest Star: Adriana Blancarte-Hayward

Immigrant Services at NYPL

• Citizenship resources
• New Americans corners
• World Languages collections
• Classes: English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Outlander by Diana Galaldon

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

Non-Book Recommendations

Adriana: Press Reader database and Parks and Rec

Gwen: Yasso frozen yogurt bars (and the Forbes article about it being started by two millenial friends )

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