#Read20in20 Reading Challenge
Get Your Patrons Excited About Reading More in 2020? Join our #Read20in20 Reading Challenge! Year after year, one of the top New Year’s Resolutions is to read more. This year, let us help you usher in a new decade of reading and help your patrons reach their reading goals. The Borrow.Read.Repeat. #Read20in20 Reading Challenge is […]
#FridayReads: Deacon King Kong by James McBride
From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 […]
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Essential Books to Celebrate Black History
From Fredrick Douglass’ autobiography to Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved, these books are essential reading. Click for a List of Essential Black History Month Books.
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Celebrate Black History Month at Your Library
Black History Month is the annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of blacks in U.S. history. Honor their legacy by sharing these books by and about African Americans with your patrons. Click for More Books to Celebrate Black History Month. Click to Learn More About Black History […]
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver, Author of One Day in December
Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December. . . “I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi Picoult Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two […]
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#FridayReads: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel “Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported.”—Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away Conjure Women is a sweeping story […]
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Providence by Max Barry
From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon: a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour–alone, together, at the edge of the universe. The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Special. Chosen. We thought the universe was a twinkling ocean […]
Join Bryant Park and PRHPS Kid’s Corner for the 2020 Read to Skate Program!
January 11, 2020 – February 22, 2020 Saturdays, 11:30am-12:30pm Read and sing along with Cali Co Cat and earn a free skate rental! Free books at every event, while supply lasts. There’s a new story every week. Stay tuned for book titles. How to earn a Free Kids Skate Rental: • Attend 2 StoryTime programs at […]
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