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Top Checkouts at 53rd Street Library

  • Red : a crayon's story

    By Hall, Michael
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  • I am enough

    By Byers, Grace
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  • Dear Girl,

    By Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
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  • First lie wins

    By Elston, Ashley
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  • Yellowface : a novel

    By Kuang, R. F.
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  • Snail crossing

    By Tabor, Corey R.
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  • The women

    By Hannah, Kristin
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  • The heiress : a novel

    By Hawkins, Rachel
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Staff Picks

  • Gravity's Rainbow

    By Thomas Pynchon
    Picked By Brian Levy
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Art Exhibition: Véronique Coutant-Godard

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Véronique Coutant-Godard is an American artist born in France, and lives currently in New York. She specializes in printmaking, exploring different techniques like linoleum cut, woodcut, lithograph and monotype.

Her focus is printmaking, specifically relief block printing. As a printmaker, she finds inspiration in nature, and from travelling overseas in Europe, Africa, and North  and South America. Her series of linocuts at the 53rd Street Library are inspired by Aesop’s Fables.

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