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Author Talks & Conversations
- Notes from the Reading Life
  MULTIPLE DATES IN JUNE
  Multiple Locations
- Claudia Rankine: The White Card
  Thu, Jun 6 | 7 pm
  Schwarzman Building
- The Farm: Joanne Ramos with Catherine Burns
  Mon, May 20 | 6:30 pm
  Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street
- Primo Levi at 100: If This Is a Man
  Wed, Jun 12 | 12 pm
  Schwarzman Building

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Staff Picks

The language we use to describe events, places, and people can either give power to a movement or preserve the status quo.

Aimé Casillas

Librarian

For readers who like the darker side of fairy tales.

Andrea Lipinski

Librarian

New & Noteworthy

Orange World

Karen Russell

Adults

Short Stories

Inheritance

Dani Shapiro

Adults

Memoir

Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

David Treuer

Adults

Nonfiction

The Ruin of Kings

Jenn Lyons

Adults

Fantasy

The Murmur of Bees

Sofia Segovia

Adults

Fiction

99 Percent Mine

Sally Thorne

Adults

Romance

Field Guide to the North American Teenager

Ben Philippe

Teens

Fiction

Barely Missing Everything

Matt Mendez

Teens

Fiction

Cicada

Shaun Tan

Kids

Picture Book

Mary Wears What She Wants

Keith Negley

Kids

Picture Book

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So, Why Do We Call It Gotham, Anyway?

New York is a city of nicknames—the Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps, Empire City, The City So Nice They Named It Twice... but let’s just concentrate on one: Gotham.

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