| Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers," with Becky Cooper, an award-winning writer and cartographer. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 6:30 p.m. |
English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants |
| Sunday, July 14, 2013 |
| 2 p.m. |
"The Big Steal DVD, Black and White, 71 minutes, 1949, RKO Pictures, directed by Don Siegel and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and William Bendix. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao," with Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz, a popular speaker on the subject of chocolate. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking," with Oliver Burkeman, a feature writer for "The Guardian." |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts," with Emily Anthes, a science journalist. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Thursday, July 18, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed," with Leslie Maitland, an award-winning former reporter for "The New York Times," who specialized in legal affairs and investigative reporting. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 6:30 p.m. |
English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants |
| Sunday, July 21, 2013 |
| 2 p.m. |
"Where Danger Lives," DVD, Black and White, 82 minutes, 1950, directed by John Farrow and starring Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, and Phyllis Kirk. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Monday, July 22, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"New York Neon," with Thomas E. Rinaldi, the coauthor, with Robert J. Yasinsac, of "Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape." |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back |
Mid-Manhattan Library, The Corner Room
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Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
Persons with Disabilities |
| Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Islamic Leaders: Their Biographies and Accomplishments" (From Muhammad to the present) with Saul Silas Fathi, author, lecturer and linguist. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, with Lawrence R. Samuel, the founder of Culture Planning, LLC, a consulting company offering cultural insight to Fortune 500 companies. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 7 p.m. |
1970s New York City on Film: Mean Streets
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators |
| Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal," with Marian Moser Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of family science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 6:30 p.m. |
English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants |
| Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
| 2 p.m. |
"His Kind of Woman," DVD, Black and White, 120 minutes, 1951, directed by John Farrow and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, and Vincent Price. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Monday, July 29, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror," with Trevor Aaronson, investigative reporter and author. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism," with Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City," with Constance Rosenblum, most recently the author of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times and the longtime editor of the paper’s City section. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 7 p.m. |
1970s New York City on Film: Three Days of the Condor
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators |
| Thursday, August 1, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Among Murderers: Life after Prison, with Sabine Heinlein, a writer of narrative nonfiction and a teacher of writing at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Sunday, August 4, 2013 |
| 2 p.m. |
"The Narrow Margin," DVD, Black and White, 100 minutes, 1952, RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, and Jacqueline White. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Monday, August 5, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Instant: The Story of Polaroid," with Christopher Bonanos, a senior editor at New York magazine. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Tuesday, August 6, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn't Know You Could Eat," with Ellen Zachos, New York Botanical Garden instructor and a professional garden photographer. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Wednesday, August 7, 2013 |
| 7 p.m. |
1970s New York City on Film: Network
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators |
| Thursday, August 8, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation," with Joshua C. Kendall, an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" and "The Forgotten Founding Father." |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 6:30 p.m. |
English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants |
| Sunday, August 11, 2013 |
| 2 p.m. |
"Crime Wave," DVD, Black and White, 73 minutes, 1954, directed by André De Toth and starring Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, and Phyllis Kirk. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Monday, August 12, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published," with David Skinner, a staff editor at the Weekly Standard and an editor of Doublethink magazine. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Tuesday, August 13, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
All the Buildings in New York: That I’ve Drawn So Far with James Gulliver Hancock, an artist and illustrator. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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50+ |
| Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, with John Strausbaugh, a journalist, a cultural commentator, and one-time host of The New York Times’ Weekend Explorer series. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 7 p.m. |
1970s New York City on Film: Saturday Night Fever
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators |
| Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code," with Sam Kean, New York Times bestselling author of "The Disappearing Spoon." |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| 6:30 p.m. |
English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants |
| Sunday, August 18, 2013 |
| 2 p.m. |
"The Phenix City Story," DVD, Black and White, 100 minutes, 1955, directed by Phil Karlson, and starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, and Kathryn Grant. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"The Amoeba in the Room: Why Animals and Plants Don’t Matter," with Nicholas P. Money, Ph.D., Professor of Botany at Miami University and author of "The Triumph of the Fungi," "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores," "Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard" and "Mushroom." |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Tuesday, August 20, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made, with Charles V. Bagli, a New York Times reporter who covers the intersection of politics and real estate. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
| Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| 7 p.m. |
1970s New York City on Film: The Warriors
Time: First come, first served |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators |
| Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
| 6:30 p.m. |
"Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America," with Lawrence R. Samuel, the founder of Culture Planning, LLC, a consulting company offering cultural insight to Fortune 500 companies. |
Mid-Manhattan Library
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Adults |
