Blog Posts by Subject: Nonfiction

July dawn. A passerby finds a scavenger lying in the mud by the Mumbai airport road. Crying for help — leg mashed and bloody — probably hit by a car. "Thousands of people passed this way every morning." ... "At 2:30 p.m., a Shiv Sena man made a call to a friend in the Sahar Police Station about a corpse that was disturbing small children."

Charles Salzberg, faculty member, and one of the founders of the New York Writer's Workshop, gave a one-evening seminar at the Mid-Manhattan Library on December 11th. Sign-ups for the evening's seminar closed at the 15 people who registered online at the New York Public Library's website, but Mr. Salzberg graciously allowed in 9 more people. To introduce the program, I brought two copies of The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberg, and asked the participants whether they had heard of this title, which remained on the New York Times' Bestseller List for many weeks a few years ago.

Last year around this time, author Michael Scott Moore read from his book Sweetness and Blood at the Columbus branch. I wanted to share it with everyone who couldn't attend. Sweetness and Blood focuses on the history of surfing and was also an NYPL Reader's Den pick. I was reminded of it when recent weather advisories discouraged (rightfully so) surfers from taking advantage of favorable storm wave conditions. 

Previous Sweetness and Blood Reader's Den posts: Week 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

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

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

For the week of August 26, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

One can scarcely think of any park in NYC — or any city, really — without envisioning the ubiquitous pigeon there as well. Despite signs requesting you not feed the birds in adjacent Bryant Park, the library has more than its share of feathered patrons.

For the week of August 19, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series books.

For the week of August 12, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback trade fiction books.

For the week of August 5, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books.

For the week of July 29, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

For the week of July 22, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's chapter books.

For the week of July 15, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback non-fiction.

For the week of July 8, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc.

For the week of July 1, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

For the week of June 24, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's paperback books.

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For the week of June 17, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback advice & misc. books.

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For the week of June 10, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books.

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For the week of June 3, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.