Posts from New Dorp Library

For the week of December 16, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and young adult books.

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For the week of December 9, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback advice & misc. books.

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Are you familar with Goodreads? Goodreads is a Free "social cataloging" website that allows people to sign up and list books to create their own catalogs and reading lists, as well as to share book suggestions and create group discussions. It's very popular.

The books listed below were chosen as winners of the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards, "the only major book awards decided by readers."

Please note that only books published for the first time in the 

For the week of December 2, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books.

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For the week of November 25, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

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Visit NYPL's BiblioCommons for these lists and many more. See below for some interesting staff picks from the past couple months, on topics both timely and timeless:

Mid-Manhattan Library celebrated Martin Scorsese's 70th birthday by putting together lists of his films and his survey of postwar Italian 

For the week of November 18, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series.

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For the week of November 11, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series.

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For the week of November 4, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback advice & misc.

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For the week of October 28, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice and miscellaneous.

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For the week of October 21, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

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For the week of October 14, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's paperback books.

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Novelist Tim O'Brien, poet Donald Hall, and short story master Edith Wharton are just some of the writers we will be discussing at the New Dorp Library book discussions.

Please join our group, which meets one Friday each month at 2:30 p.m., from September through June (see schedule 

For the week of October 7, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback trade fiction. books.

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I recently had two French couchsurfers stay with me. I went downstairs to find the guy in the kitchen rummaging through my refrigerator. I asked him what he was looking for. He said milk. I said I don't have milk... well... just almond milk. He said to not have milk was un-American.

I don't even know what that means.

So this exchange got me to thinking. Are there stereotypes of America that I am unaware of? I know from speaking to other couchsurfers that the general stereotype of an American is that of the loud, 

For the week of September 30, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice and miscellaneous books.

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For the week of September 16, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

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Visit NYPL's BiblioCommons for these lists and many more. You can also create your own and share them with us in the comments! See below for some interesting staff picks from the past month, on topics both timely and timeless:

For the week of September 16, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's chapter books.

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