This issue includes
Stacks Week! | Holiday Book Sale | Homer's Odyssey

One-Question Survey
 
It's in everyone's canon of great books, but you find it totally overrated. What is it? VOTE HERE .

Last month we asked what kind of candy should be handed out at the Library on Halloween. Visit us Wednesday October 31, 3:00-5:00 PM, for chocolate and lollipops! Here are your votes:
Write-ins included candy corn, peppermint, fruit instead of candy, “quantity over quality,” and the particularly fabulous notion of scratch’n’sniff bookmarks. There's always next year...
Stacks Week 2018: November 12-21!
We know you're thankful for our 300,000-book-strong browsable stacks. From November 12 until Thanksgiving, pull a book you found by happy chance, long ago or recently, and add it to the display in the lobby. And join us on Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #StacksWeek!
News and Links
 
A good horror book thrills any time of year. Circulation staffer Stephanie Merchant recommends the best.

What excites book conservators? According to Christina Amato, it's psychrometers, hygrometers, and data loggers - oh my!

Head of Acquisitions Steve McGuirl crunched the numbers on what we read in 2017. The answers may surprise you.
Can you believe it's been five years since we completed the Children's Library renovation and picture-book room? Children's/Young Adult Librarian Susan Vincent Molinaro looks back.

A few eloquent members told us What I Love About the Library.
There's still space for Gregory Pardlo in discussion with Lisa Lucas on Air Traffic - October 30 (tomorrow night), 6:30 PM!
THE WRITING LIFE - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
NEW! SPECIAL EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LECTURE - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
THE WRITING LIFE - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
CHILDREN'S EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LECTURE - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
HAPPY HOUR - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
CHILDREN'S EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CHILDREN'S EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
NEW SPECIAL EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Also of Interest
Our 2016-17 New York City Book Awards winner Corey Pegues, author of Once a Cop , has been featured in a new documentary from the Guardian . At left: Mr. Pegues accepts his Hornblower Award for a first book (photo by Karen Smul).
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Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The Library will be closed Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23, for Thanksgiving.

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