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Summer at the Library

Join NYPL all summer for free events, programs for kids and teens, reading recommendations, and much more!

Spotlight

  • Read N.K. Jemisin's 'The City We Became'

    Cover of The City We Became with N.K. Jemisin's headshot.
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What's On

  • Author Talks & Conversations

  • Exhibitions

  • Kids & Teens

  • Other Events

  • 'War Boys: A Father & Son Memoir' with Jason Prokowiew & Lynne Rosenberg

    Wed, Aug 19 | 6:30 PM

    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

    Author Jason Prokowiew and the cover of War Boys.

  • Book Discussion Groups

    Various Dates

    Various Location

    Reading Rhythms @ SNFL

  • Discover More Author Talks at NYPL

    Ongoing

    Various Locations

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  • David Mills: Poetry About Slavery in Manhattan, the Bronx & Queens

    Wed, Aug 19 | 4:30 PM

    Inwood Library–Joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building

    David Mills with the cover of Unhired Hands.

  • 'War Boys: A Father & Son Memoir' with Jason Prokowiew & Lynne Rosenberg

    Wed, Aug 19 | 6:30 PM

    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

    Author Jason Prokowiew and the cover of War Boys.

  • Book Discussion Groups

    Various Dates

    Various Location

    Reading Rhythms @ SNFL

  • Discover More Author Talks at NYPL

    Ongoing

    Various Locations

    Two people on stage mid-speech.
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Staff Picks

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In the Collection

  • Territory of Light

    Yuko Tsushima

    AdultFiction

  • The Feather Thief

    Kirk W. Johnson

    AdultNonfiction

  • The Employees

    Olga Ravn

    AdultFiction

  • Island of the Lost

    Joan Durett

    AdultNonfiction

  • Heavy: An American Memoir

    Kiese Laymon

    AdultMemoir

  • Brotherless Night

    V. V. Ganeshananthan

    AdultFiction

  • Invisible Beasts

    Sharona Muir

    AdultFiction

  • Necessary Fiction

    Eloghosa Osunde

    AdultFiction

  • The Mountain in the Sea

    Ray Nayler

    AdultFiction

  • Latino Poetry

    Library of America

    AdultNonfiction

From Our Blog

  • Summery Beach Listens for Audiobook Lovers

    Forget the glare of the sun—close your eyes and settle in with a great audiobook. 

     


     

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  • Captivated by 'The Odyssey'? Read These Next

    Read one of the many translations of this epic poem or try an imaginative retelling set in antiquity or modern times.

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