Posts by Emily Pullen

Our selections include fiction and a graphic novel as well as nonfiction essays and reported journalism.

Documentaries bring history to life through interviews and archival video and photographs to engage students with the past. These selections cover American history, ancient Egypt and jazz music.

Is your child learning about climate change, the Immigration Act or Ancient Egypt? These and other nonfictiontopics, along with fiction and graphic novel selections are always available to be checked out—no waiting.

There's never a wait for these titles including appealing biographies, science and STEM picks and books that impart life lessons.

There is no shortage of new books to get excited about!

Although 2020 looks different from how we had all imagined it, one thing that hasn’t changed is that there is no shortage of new books to get excited about. We have committees of librarians who are reviewing the new releases of the year, for consideration on our Best of 2020 lists and to recommend for our patrons in the library branches eventually. 

Here are just a few of the picture books that our librarians are loving so far.

Some are recently published and some have been around for awhile—but they're all available digitally through our SimplyE app.

Although the NYPL branches are currently closed, the members of our Best Books committees are still hard at work, getting excited about the books that are coming out in 2020. Here are a few YA novels that have them buzzing already.

This year more than ever before we owe a huge debt of gratitude to nurses.

We hope that there's something here for every reader.

Run out of your favorite podcast episodes? Try a book from the same mind.

You've seen them on screen, now read the public domain classic.

DeParle masterfully uses a singular story to illustrate the interconnected forces that shape human migration.

Our staff shares which books their pets would be into, how about yours?

Your high school English teacher will be so proud.

Avoid the holds queue...

And how you can access it, too.

Take a deep dive into a profession that you hadn't really thought about.

Leap into a great book about time or time travel.