SEP
20
Reading Circle: "The Little Paris Bookshop" by Nina George; translated by Simon Pare
"The Little Paris Bookshop" by Nina George; translated by Simon Pare
Book Discussion
There is no scheduled title. Come in and tell us about your favorite books of the summer (or of any time).
Book Discussion: Tyrant:Shakespeare On Politics
As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.
Exploring the psyches (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III,...
Book Discussion for Adults - Another Brooklyn
Join our new monthly book club!
Another Brooklyn is a novel by award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where...
SEP
22
Latino Book Club: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Join the Latino Book Club for an informal discussion of this beloved coming-of-age classic of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, told in a series of lyrical vignettes.
No registration required. Adults...
SEP
24
Adult Book Club/Discussion
Our book discussion takes place on the last Monday of every month.
Please join our September book discussion group featuring:
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s
What it means when a man falls from the sky.
Adult Book Discussion: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Join us for the book discussion of "Cocaine Blues", by Kerry Greenwood, at Dyker Library.
Red Hook Book Club: Homegoing Edition
Join us at the Record Shop at 360 Van Brunt for the next installment of the Red Hook Book Club!Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing also made numerous "Best Books" lists. Ghana, eighteenth...
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
PART 2: ELECTIONS, THE MEDIA, AND FREE SPEECH
“So far, no candidate has managed to arouse the enthusiastic sympathies or the dangerous passions of the people in his favor, for the very simple reason that, having reached the position of...
SEP
27
Book Discussion: Truly Madly Guilty By Liane Moriarty
Looking for a new book to read? Here's a suggestion, Truly Madly Guilty By Liane Moriarty. Read the book and come to the discussion on September 27th at 2pm. Loved it? Great! Hated it? Come tell us why! Book discussion for adults in the Flatlands...
Join the Kensington Book Club: Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
Welcome to the Kensington Book Club! For adults & your families are welcome to join.
“Only Child” tells the story of six-year-old Zach, who survives a deadly shooting in his school by hiding in his classroom closet.
...
Flatbush Fiction: Book Discussion
Join Flatbush Fiction Thursday, September 27 for a discussion of Seducing Abby Rhodes by JD Mason.
A limited amount of copies will be available for checkout at the branch.
Ask at the front desk to get yours or put one on hold at...
Books and Brews: Exit West
Do you like beer and talking about books? Join us as we discuss Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
@The Gather Inn Again
2718 Gerritsen Ave.
Books are available at the Gerritsen Beach Library Information Desk. This program is for...
OCT
1
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Part 3: A DEMOCRATIC GOV’T THAT ACTUALLY WORKS (?)
“The people in democracies, constantly busy as they are with their affairs and jealous of their rights, stop their representatives straying from a certain general line prescribed by their...
OCT
3
Book Discussion: Howards End by E.M. Forster
A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece, Howards End is a novel concerned with social conventions, codes of...
OCT
4
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
OCT
9
Book Discussion: News of the World
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction
“Lyrical and affecting, the novel succeeds in skirting
clichés through its empathy and through the depth
of its major characters.” -...
Reading Circle. Adult Book Discussion: The Garden Party by Grace Dane Mazur
A wedding rehersal dinner brings two dysfunctional families together.
OCT
10
Cookbook Club
Join us for the new Cookbook Club. This month we'll discuss Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat and other cookbook and cooking related topics.
OCT
11
Enjoy reading Children’s Picture Books for fun with adults, kids and your families!
Want to learn English via reading Children's Picture Books and enjoying those beautiful illustrations?
Join our Librarian Shirley Wong in learning from each other!
Book Title: A Journey Through Art: A Global History (By Aaron...
OCT
15
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
PART 4: DEMOCRACY WITHOUT FISTFIGHTS
“If, in the course of this book, I have not succeeded in convincing the reader of the importance I attach to the practical experience, behavior, opinions, and, in a word, the customs of Americans in...
OCT
16
Book Discussion: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Come discuss Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut that evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti - and the enduring strength of Haiti's women - with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's...
OCT
18
Reading Circle: "I'll Take You There" by Wally Lamb
"I'll Take You There" a novel by Wally Lamb
Book Discussion: Behold the Dreamers
Join Flatbush Fiction Thursday, October 18 for a discussion of Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue.
A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the...
OCT
22
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
PART 5: DEMOCRATIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
“There is yet something else in America besides an immense and complete democracy and one can view the inhabitants of the New World from more than one point of view.”
America in the 1830s...
OCT
25
Book Discussion:Beloved by Toni Morrison
Looking for a new book to read? Here's a suggestion, Beloved by Toni Morrison. Read the book and come to the discussion on October 25th at 2pm. Loved it? Great! Hated it? Come tell us why! Book discussion for adults in the Flatlands Branch...
Join the Kensington Book Club: The ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE, a War Story by Diane Ackerman
Welcome to the Kensington Book Club! For adults and your families are welcome to join us.
This non-fiction book is based on a true story during WWII. It reveals the...
Books and Brews: All The Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Do you like beer and talking about books? Join us as we discuss All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
@The Gather Inn Again
2718 Gerritsen Ave.
Books are available...
OCT
29
Book Discussion: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study...
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
PART 6: THE DANGEROUS SIDE OF DEMOCRACY
“My main complaint against a democratic government as organized in the United States is not its weakness, as many Europeans claim, but rather its irresistible strength. And what I find most...
OCT
30
LORe
Calling All Nerds...Again!
Your favorite nerdy book club is back! LORe is a monthly bookclub 2.0 where you can hang with fellow bookworms to chat about cool titles, make related crafts, and eat snacks.
Sign up now to secure your...
Book Discussion: Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing...
NOV
1
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
NOV
5
Book Discussion: Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing...
NOV
15
Reading Circle: "Time's a Thief" by B.G. Firmani
"Time's a Thief" by B.G. Firmani
NOV
22
NOV
27
LORe
Calling All Nerds...Again!
Your favorite nerdy book club is back! LORe is a monthly bookclub 2.0 where you can hang with fellow bookworms to chat about cool titles, make related crafts, and eat snacks.
Sign up now to secure your...
DEC
6
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
DEC
18
LORe
Calling All Nerds...Again!
Your favorite nerdy book club is back! LORe is a monthly bookclub 2.0 where you can hang with fellow bookworms to chat about cool titles, make related crafts, and eat snacks.
Sign up now to secure your...
DEC
20
Reading Circle:A Spool of Blue Thread" by Anne Tyler
" A Spool of Blue Thread" by Anne Tyler
JAN
3
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
FEB
7
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
MAR
7
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
APR
4
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
MAY
2
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
JUN
6
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
JUL
2
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
AUG
1
Harry Potter Book Club
Dear Reader,
You have been accepted into the Harry Potter book club. Please come prepared to read awesome books, talk about them, and do cool things related to the books. This year we will be attempting to read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter...
