Blog Posts by Subject: Nonfiction

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.

You still have time to read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace before Hudson Park's next book discussion on Saturday, June 9, at 10:30 a.m.

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For the week of May 27, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series.

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For the week of May 20, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback trade fiction.

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For the week of May 13, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books.

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On a recent Saturday evening feeling, sluggish because of a lingering cold, I still walked briskly to the Bryant Park subway station. I needed to arrive at the West 4th Street subway station to catch the 6:20, which later became the 6:29 "A" train to Far Rockaway, Queens. Sitting in the first car, I felt the train moving jerkily between stations. Just before the train left the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station, I felt and heard the pounding of many-hands on the side of the train's first car — the people on the station's platform were doing all they could to ensure that the driver did not leave the station. The train stopped, but the doors didn't open immediately, and I 

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For the week of May 6, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

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I read Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities years before I moved to New York, back when I wrote for community newspapers in my home state of Delaware. Jacobs wrote sensibly, without pretense. She observed things closely, and drew logical conclusions. She obviously cared about her subject passionately, but her arguments were not emotional. They were deductive. I admired Jacobs tremendously.

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

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