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What's On

Author Talks & Conversations
‘How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic’: A Virtual Panel
Tues, July 22 | 6 PM
Online
Exhibitions
100: A Century of Collections, Community, and Creativity
Open now. Through June 30, 2026
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Kids & Teens
Dance, Music & Theater Storytimes with LPA!
Wednesdays | 11 AM & 1 PM
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Other Events
Join Theater Workshops & Experience Broadway Performances for Free!
Ongoing
Various Locations

‘How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic’: A Virtual Panel
Tues, July 22 | 6 PM
Online

Louis Henry Mitchell with Trevor Crafts: How to Question Everything to Find Your Creative Fulfillment
Wed, July 16 | 6:30 PM
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Lauren O'Neill-Butler with E.C. Feiss & Ciarán Finlayson: A History of Artists' Protest in America
Thurs, July 17 | 6 PM
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Across a Crowded Room: Networking for Actors & Directors
Sat, July 19 | 11 AM–1 PM
Library for the Performing Arts

‘How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic’: A Virtual Panel
Tues, July 22 | 6 PM
Online
Louis Henry Mitchell with Trevor Crafts: How to Question Everything to Find Your Creative Fulfillment
Wed, July 16 | 6:30 PM
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Lauren O'Neill-Butler with E.C. Feiss & Ciarán Finlayson: A History of Artists' Protest in America
Thurs, July 17 | 6 PM
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Across a Crowded Room: Networking for Actors & Directors
Sat, July 19 | 11 AM–1 PM
Library for the Performing Arts

Staff Picks

A young girl explores The Other Side: a magical and mysterious world where she learns about the consequences of her actions and stitches together the ending to her own story.
Rachel Roseberry
Young Adult Programs & Services
Get Out meets Gossip Girl in this edge of your seat thriller. What seems to be a harmless prank turns into a dangerous game for students Devon and Chiamaka. It will keep you guessing until the very last page!
Tabrizia Jones
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library

In the Collection

Matriarch
Tina Knowles
AdultMemoir
Can't Get Enough
Kennedy Ryan
AdultRomance
The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt
AdultFiction
Eat the Ones You Love
Sara Maria Griffin
AdultHorror
The World is Not Yours
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
AdultHorror
A Gentleman's Gentleman
T. J. Alexander
AdultRomance
Amplitudes
ed. Lee Mandelo
AdultSci Fi
Toni at Random
Dana A. Williams
AdultNonfiction
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon
Annie Mare
AdultRomance
Gothictown
Emily Carpenter
AdultHorror

From Our Blog

Heading to a Wedding? Make One of These Nuptial-Themed Books Your Plus One
We propose you give one of these reads a try—it can be your "something borrowed"!
Teen Zines: Represent Your Library!
Check out these teen-made zines filled with poetry and artwork.

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