In our September newsletters we asked readers "What was the BEST book you read this summer?" We got a fall harvest-worth of responses!
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September 08, 2020A preview of the most anticipated books for Fall 2020. - My Tab
Online Event
S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 6:00pm
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open to the public | by donation | registration required
A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi. Like Ocean's Eleven meets Drive with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime. Lee Child calls it "sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended."
Children
Storytime Online
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 12:00pm
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Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then? The video will be posted on our Children's Events page shortly after the YouTube premiere!
Online Event
Writing Life Workshop: 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way with Geraldine Woods
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 6:00pm
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 6:00pm
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for members only | by donation | registration required
Read More >
Online Event
Seminar: Jane Mallison, Virgil's Aeneid, Books VII-XII
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 11:00am
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for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Written at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll complete the story in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
Online Event
The Writing Life Poetry Workshop: Write What Life Feels Like Now with Esther Cohen
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00pm
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open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration required
It's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | by donation | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Online Event
Christopher James Bonner, Runaways, or Citizens Claimed as Such
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 6:00pm
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for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | free of charge | registration required through the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Christopher James Bonner is the author of Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship.
PURCHASE YOUR COPY THROUGH THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA
Online Event
Seminar: Nicholas Birns, An Outsized Reality: The Novels of Gabriel García Márquez
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:00am
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for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Gabriel García Márquez was the most influential writer in the Spanish language since Cervantes. This seminar takes a deep look at his three major works One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Children
Storytime Online
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 12:00pm
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Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then? The video will be posted on our Children's Events page shortly after the YouTube premiere!
Online Event
Lowell Thing, Cover Treasure: The Adventures of a Margaret Armstrong Collector
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 6:00pm
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open to the public | $10 per person | registration required
The foremost expert on the book art of Margaret Armstrong talks about her life and career, with stunning images from his own comprehensive collection of her bindings.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | by donation | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Online Event
Writing Life Workshop: 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way with Geraldine Woods
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 6:00pm
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 6:00pm
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for members only | by donation | registration required
Read More >
Online Event
Seminar: Jane Mallison, Virgil's Aeneid, Books VII-XII
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 11:00am
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for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Written at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll complete the story in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
Online Event
The Writing Life Poetry Workshop: Write What Life Feels Like Now with Esther Cohen
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00pm
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open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration required
It's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
Online Event
The Writing Life: Prompt! with Terena Elizabeth Bell
Friday, September 11, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Friday, December 11, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
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for members only | by donation | registration required
Join your fellow member writers for a fun and stimulating hour+ of prompts, writing, and sharing.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | by donation | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Special Event
Holiday Closing: Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
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Holiday Closing
The Library is closed Monday, October 12 for Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day. Otherwise we observe normal hours.
Online Event
Seminar: Nicholas Birns, An Outsized Reality: The Novels of Gabriel García Márquez
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:00am
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for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Gabriel García Márquez was the most influential writer in the Spanish language since Cervantes. This seminar takes a deep look at his three major works One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Online Event
The Writing Life: Live from Your Living Room, Fall 2020
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 6:00pm
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open to the public | free of charge | registration required
Library members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | by donation | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Online Event
Seminar: Jane Mallison, Virgil's Aeneid, Books VII-XII
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 11:00am
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 11:00am
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for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Written at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll complete the story in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
Online Event
The Writing Life Poetry Workshop: Write What Life Feels Like Now with Esther Cohen
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:00pm
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00pm
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open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration required
It's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
Online Event
Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 6:00pm
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open to the public | $10 per person | registration required
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | by donation | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Online Event
Seminar: Nicholas Birns, An Outsized Reality: The Novels of Gabriel García Márquez
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 11:00am
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:00am
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for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Gabriel García Márquez was the most influential writer in the Spanish language since Cervantes. This seminar takes a deep look at his three major works One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Mon, Oct 12
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