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Exhibitions
- Love in Venice
  Open now. Ends August 26, 2017.
  Schwarzman Building
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  Open now. Ends October 14, 2017.
  Library for the Performing Arts
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  Open now. Ends September 16, 2017.
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- Power in Print
  Open now. Ends December 30, 2017.
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Staff Picks

A humorous look into the world of the Jewish mother

Mamaleh Knows Best by Marjorie Ingall

Rebecca Kluberdanz

Librarian

One man sees a farm where others see an abandoned city lot

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Summer Reading Committee

New & Noteworthy

The Windfall

Diksha Basu

Adults

Fiction

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

Adults

Nonfiction

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien

Adults

Fiction

Made for Love

Alissa Nutting

Adults

Fiction

Dog Dish of Doom

E.J. Copperman

Adults

Mystery

How Dare the Sun Rise

S. Uwiringiyimana

Teens

Memoir

Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller

Teens

Fiction

The Takedown

Corrie Wang

Teens

Science Fiction

The New Ocean

Bryn Barnard

Kids

Nonfiction

Animal Ark

Kwame Alexander

Kids

Poetry

From Our Blog

The Librarian Is In.

Summer Reading Challenge, Greeks vs. Romans: The Librarian is In, Ep. 48

For Summer Reading, Gwen and Frank chose a book for each other that they thought they'd love but would never read otherwise.

Gwen Glazer

Librarian, Readers Services

Philip Glass.

Podcast #173: Phillip Glass, Words Without Music

The giant of 20th-century American music took to the LIVE stage in June.

Aidan Flax-Clark

Manager of Public Programs

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