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There are one million new books published each year. With so many books and so little time, where do you begin to find your next must-read? There’s the New York Times Bestseller list, the Goodreads app, the Cape Library’s Staff picks shelf and now Martin’s Must-Reads.Every Wednesday at 6:42 and 8:42 a.m., and Sunday at 8:18 a.m., Betty Martin recommends a must read based on her own personal biases for historical fiction, quirky characters and overall well-turned phrases. Her list includes WW ...
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Have you ever heard of a virtual power plant? Learn about innovatively integrating energy resources to benefit a community of participants while also contributing sustainably to the electrical grid. Michael Bobker of The City College of New York (CCNY)…
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The New York Public Library’s podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
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Poetry: The Creative Process: Poets discuss Poems & Creativity
Writing: Creative Process Original Series
Poetry episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. Listen to poets reading their poetry & discuss their lives, work & creative process. Includes environmental poetry, humanities & activism. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conv ...
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Art · The Creative Process: Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art, Life & Creativity
Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art & Creativity · Creative Process Original Series
Art episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to artists, curators, museum directors about their work & how they made their creative careers. To listen to arts episodes across a variety of disciplines, follow our main podcast: “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”. You’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations wit ...
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Scenic nature parks home to unnatural occurrences. A cozy public library where the doors sometimes vanish. Residents that disappear for a bit and come back…different. In a small, (too) quiet town in upstate New York, a pair of friends juggle dodging horrors beyond imagination while navigating the all too tangible terror of adulthood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Deep beneath the stacks of the New York Public Library, Brian & Eric stumble through strange, spooky, and macabre while trying not to get cursed. Bigfoot? Obviously real. UFOs? The government is hiding them. The Dogman? Definitely not just a bear. Killer Robots? Coming for us all! Join two idiots as they explore these topics and more while making each other laugh.
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Welcome to my library of interviews... Librarians, bestselling authors and our wartime generation sharing their love of books, reading and some extraordinary stories . #Hidden History #Forgotten women #Bibliotherapy #Libraries INTRODUCTION Welcome to From the Library With Love. A podcast for anyone whose life has been changed by reading. I’m Kate Thompson. Wonderful, transformative things happen when you set foot in a library. In 2019 I uncovered the true story of a forgotten Underground lib ...
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Have you ever been told you’re just not right for the part? Maybe, you’ve been on a hundred auditions and heard back from zero? Or are you merely a terrible actor searching for mediocre advice? All are welcome. Join Andrew and Catherine as they break down the day-to-day life of an early-career actor, discuss constant rejection, and provide tools that will guide you through this artistic mess. We’re new at this too, so let’s learn together.
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OUR STREETS, OUR STORIES is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library's Department of Outreach Services that seeks to explore the Brooklyn that is and was, from the words of the community that lives here. Our hope is to create neighborhood-specific history archives based around interviews with Brooklyn residents. We seek to not only witness the change taking place all around us, but also to record and preserve the history of our neighborhoods before that history is forgotten. *Nominee, 2016 & ...
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Synchronicity machines. Difference engines melded with the iChing. Geomancy: the art of making stone float with sound. The hacker collective 'Anonymous'. Secret societies … This is the world of ARMAND PTOLEMY, a new action-adventure hero. Facing an enemy armed with the Golden Aleph -- a mystical device that allows its wielder to see holographically into every point in time and space, Ptolemy must use every trick of his Oxford-educated mind and circus-trained body to succeed. But how do you f ...
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The Library of Arabic Literature is a remarkable undertaking. It is publishing, in Arabic and English dual-language volumes, key works of classical and pre-modern Arabic literature from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period. Several of these works have not been translated before, while others have not received such careful editing and translation until now, when the editors and translators are consulting original manuscripts. The series launched its first title in December 201 ...
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The Archive of Legendary Composer and Musician Wayne Shorter Has Been Acquired By The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Turn The Page – Episode 355D – Kaira Rouda
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19:27Thriller author Kaira Rouda chats about her craziest thriller yet and what happens when JILL IS NOT HAPPY.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 355C – Natasha Lester
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20:24Natasha Lester chats about Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who had grown from aspiring concert pianist to the leader of the longest running spy network for France during WWII, and whose name had been lost to history.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 355B – Sameer Pandya
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23:21Author Sameer Pandya throws three high school seniors from affluent families of different backgrounds into a tense tale of friendships, lies and identity when their sons – members of the football team – each become suspect in an attack against another students.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 355A – Heather Marshall
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27:59Heather Marshall chats about THE SECRET HISTORY OF AUDREY JAMES, an astonishing historical novel of one woman’s dangerous journey through World War II Germany and her life-changing friendship with a young woman decades later.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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South Street Seaport Museum Announces Red, White & Views: Fourth of July Fireworks
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Public Art for Public Libraries: Five New Percent for Art Projects in Five Historic Carnegie Branch Libraries
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Waterfront Wilderness: New “Mini Forest” Unveiled in Williamsburg
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Championship Tour Heads to Brazil’s Surfing Capital for the VIVO Rio Pro Presented by Corona Cero
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Barbara Demick with Jessica Bruder: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
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1:00:09In this episode of Library Talks, acclaimed journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick talks to Jessica Bruder about her latest book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins Barbara Demick investigates the origins, shocking cruelty, and legacy of China’s one-chil…
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Martin's Must-Reads: 'Joy Moody Is Out of Time'
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1:39“1 August 2023 4:34 p.m. There were only five minutes left for Joy Moody and her twin daughters."By Betty Martin
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The Brooklyn Museum to Present Monet and Venice, the First Major Exhibition in over a Century Dedicated to Claude Monet’s Venetian Cityscapes
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The Billy Joel Project from the Broadway Ensemble
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Hunter’s Point South: A Key to Unlocking More Affordable Housing in Queens
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City Unveils Vision for Hunts Point Marine Terminal on Site of Former Jail Barge
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Alexander Sammartino Wins 2025 Young Lions Fiction Award for Last Acts
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Bettylou Sakura Johnson and Yago Dora Win Lexus Trestles Pro Presented by Outerknown
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2025 Tribeca Festival Announces Winners "Charliebird," "Happy Birthday," and "Natchez" in U.S. Narrative, International, Narrative and Documentary Competitions
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“Maybe Happy Ending” Original Broadway Cast Recording
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Donation Announcement: The Fred W. Mcdarrah Estate
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Bryant Park Picnic Performances Returns for the Summer
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Warm Up 2025 to Feature MikeQ, John Glacier, Sarz, Ok Williams, Special Request, DJ Stingray 313, and Many More
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Certified, Safe E-Bikes and Batteries Distribution to Delivery Workers Begins to Cut Down on Fires and Get Illegal Devices off City Streets
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Turn The Page – Episode 354F – Martha Hall Kelly
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32:34Evelyn chats with Martha Hall Kelly about THE MARTHA’S BEACH AND BOOK CLUB, in which two sisters living on Martha’s Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club for women in this spectacular novel inspired by true events.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 354E – Mark Stevens
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15:33Mark Stevens shifts gears from his baseball thriller THE FIREBALLER to treat his readers to a cat and cat and mouse thriller involving a disgraced reporter, a serial killer in retirement, and the copycat serial killer who plagues them both. NO LIE LASTS FOREVER is a great read.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 354D – Lisa C. Taylor
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19:36Lisa C. Taylor discusses long grief, music, and empathy in THE SHAPE OF WHAT REMAINS. Lisa’s a wonderful voice whose experience and skill at weaving a story will feel natural to readers.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 354C – Megan Barnard
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22:35Summer might be right around the corner, but THE WINTER GODDESS is the perfect chill for lovers of mythology retellings. Author Megan Barnard joined us to chat about the Irish Pantheon and a reimagining of Cailleach, the goddess of Winter who is sent to live as a mortal as punishment for her callous ways.…
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Meghan sat down with author, Annie Fox. Fox is the author of the new YA Sci-fi mystey thriller LEETA SIMTAR– A LIFE ON TWO PLANETS: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. One day, she uses an escape pod and travels to Earth on a mission to find her family, in which Leeta meets a variety of characters that lead to humorous and memorable adventures on an interg…
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Turn The Page – Episode 354A – Katherine Reay
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25:34Katherine Reay stopped by last year to discuss THE BERLIN LETTERS: A COLD WAR NOVEL. This year she’s back to discuss one of Jenn’s fave recent reads: THE ENGLISH MASTERPIECE, a riveting dual perspective story about the highest echelons of the English art world.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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The Affordable Scoop: A Monthly Guide to Permanently Affordable Homes Across the City
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New Intersection Design It Will Implement in Select Areas to Better Protect Pedestrians, Cyclists
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Performers Announced For Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth Concert; André De Shields to receive the Juneteenth Legacy Award
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Nominees Announced For The 16th Annual Jimmy Awards®
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Children's History Book Prize Awarded to A Two-Placed Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen
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Madeleine Thien with Jiayang Fan: The Book of Records
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55:46In this episode of Library Talks, author Madeleine Thien talks to Jiayang Fan about her latest book, The Book of Records. The Book of Records is a novel that leaps across generations, ideas, and centuries, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Madeleine Thien worked on The Book of Records during her 2021-2022 Fellowship at the Library…
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space with IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR.
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49:45“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Kla…
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space with IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR.
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“I mostly remember the trial,” she said. “And the aftermath - being taken into a room and asked to draw what happened."By Betty Martin
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Turn the Page – SPECIAL EPISODE 34B – Chris Chibnall
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28:28Chris Chibnall, writer of popular British TV Series such as BROADCHURCH honored us by chatting about his foray into novel writing! DEATH AT THE WHITE HART will grab the attention of fans of small town British Mysteries and cultivate the praise of both fans and newcomers to Chibnall’s twisty narrative style.…
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Turn the Page – SPECIAL EPISODE 34A – Matt Braly & Ainsworth Lin!
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44:33Matt Braly and Ainsworth Lin zoomed in from the West Coast to chat about FAMILY FORCE V, part love letter to Super Sentai, part coming of age YA graphic novel --- and a lot more. But let’s not spoil it too much. Matt and Ainsworth’s book has a story you will love, characters you will adore, and art you will DEVOUR.…
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NYC Pride Awards $100K to 11 Nonprofits Serving the LGBTQIA+ Community
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The DreamYard Project Programs Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers Public Performance Series for June
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