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The Library has everything you need for your reading journey this summer, from book lists, events and more.

What's Happening

Exhibitions
Author Talks & Conversations
Performing Arts & Films
Other Events

Exhibitions
- Curtain Up: Celebrating the Last 40 Years of Theatre in New York and London
  Open now. Ends June 30, 2017.
  Library for the Performing Arts
- Hilary Knight’s Stage Struck World
  Open now. Ends September 1, 2017.
  Library for the Performing Arts
- Viewpoints: Latin America in Photographs
  Open now. Ends June 28, 2017.
  Schwarzman Building
- Power in Print
  Open now. Ends December 30, 2017.
  Schomburg Center

Learn Something New

Staff Picks

A smart and snarky inside look at Chinese jet-setters, with social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, and more.

Summer Reading Committee

Best friends transform each other.

Summer Reading Committee

New & Noteworthy

You Don't Have to Say You Love

Sherman Alexie

Adults

Memoir

The Ministry of Utmost

Arundhati Roy

Adults

Fiction

Eleven Days

Lea Carpenter

Adults

Fiction

Theft by Finding: Diaries

David Sedaris

Adults

Memoir

Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann

Adults

Nonfiction

Fire Color One

Jenny Valentine

Teens

Mystery

Scythe

Neal Shusterman

Teens

Fiction

The Doorman's Repose

Christopher Raschk

Kids

Fiction

Mouse & Hippo

Mike Twohy

Kids

Picture Book

Jonah Winter

The Secret Project

Kids

Nonfiction

From Our Blog

LGBTQ Sci-Fi Book Club: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 45

Gwen and Frank welcome Casey Maher, leader of the LGBTQ Sci-Fi Book Crew meet up.

Frank Collerius

Library Manager

Listen to These Activists Making LGBT History

Almost 50 years after Stonewall, we commemorate some of the activists who shaped the LGBT movement.

Build a Better World Through Reading

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