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Explore recent reading trends at 53rd Street. You might even find your next great read!

Top Checkouts at 53rd Street Library

  • The covenant of water : a novel

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  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

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  • A court of thorns and roses

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  • The great divide : a novel

    Cover of The great divide : a novel
  • The bee sting

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  • Madeline

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  • All I need to be

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  • Prophet song

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Staff Picks

  • Gravity's Rainbow

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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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