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A Writer's Christmas

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Dickens & More

Now through Jan 4

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Best Books for Teens 2015

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Explore our annual selection of outstanding young adult titles.
Children's Books 2015

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Explore our annual selection of 100 notable titles for reading and sharing.
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- The Rest of Us Just Live Here
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- Walk on Earth a Stranger
  Rae Carson
- Nimona
  Noelle Stevenson
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Affordable Housing in New York

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Architectural Explorations in Books Series Event

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Oh Books, Take Me Away

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Unveiling Visions

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The Alchemy of the Black Imagination

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100 Years of the Picture Collection

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Printing Women

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Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900

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Black Suburbia

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From Levittown to Ferguson

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Alice Live!

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Public Eye

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175 Years of Sharing Photography

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The Rose Main Reading Room and the Bill Blass Public Catalog Room are temporarily closed.
The 75th Anniversary of the American Negro Theatre

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