Maximizing Social Security
Open to adults. Registration requested. Learn how to determine the optimum time for you to file & begin to draw your social security benefits. Includes ways to potentially maximize benefits for you & your spouse.
Granddaughter Of Westboro Baptist Church Founder Chronicles Leaving In 'Unfollow'
Megan Phelps-Roper, who first picketed against homosexuality with her family at age 5, writes of facing feelings of guilt. In her memoir she says of her family, "losing them was the price of honesty."
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In 'Horror Stories,' Liz Phair Writes Of 'The Haunting Melodies' In Her Head
The singer-songwriter's new book is an unconventional rock memoir that doesn't hew to the genre's norms. And like her entire musical catalog, it's honest and original.
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Saeed Jones' Eloquent Coming-Of-Age Is Hard To Read — And Harder To Put Down
Jones grew up black, gay and isolated in Texas. He chronicles his wobbly path to self-affirmation in the raw and eloquent new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives.
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In a Suspenseful New Novel From Ruta Sepetys, Franco-Era Spain Is as Repressive as Gilead
A teenage chambermaid living under the rule of Francisco Franco fights for justice, and finds love, in “The Fountains of Silence.”
Escaping the Nazis by Way of Iran
Mikhal Dekel’s “Tehran Children” tells the story of the extraordinarily hazardous journey made by hundreds of Jews from Poland to Iran to Palestine.
Liz Phair Still Doesn’t Care What We Think
In her bracing new memoir, “Horror Stories,” the rock star focuses on small, intense, un-rock-star moments.
Play Date at the Library
Suggested for ages 6-36 months. Registration requested. Enjoy stories, rhymes & songs, designed to develop early literacy skills, with your little one.
Leigh Bardugo Brews a Witchy Tale of Ghosts, Dark Magic and Murder
“Ninth House,” her first adult novel, is set at Yale, where something has gone wrong — very wrong — with the university’s secret societies.
In Jason Reynolds’s Powerful New Book, Stories Stitch Together a Neighborhood
The kids in “Look Both Ways,” a National Book Award finalist, share hustles, jokes, video games, board tricks, secret messages and private dreams.
In 'Tough Love,' Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice Aims To Reclaim Her Voice
The former national security adviser endured ridicule over comments made after the Benghazi embassy attack. Her book allows her tell her own story — and she is also open about foreign policy failures.
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If You Use Tea Bags, You’ll Be in Hot Water With This Connoisseur
“Infused: Adventures in Tea” follows Henrietta Lovell around the globe in search of quality leaves and people who know that good tea is as fine as good wine.
Not Quite French, Not Quite Syrian: ‘Aliens Without Knowing Why’
Mahir Guven’s novel, “Older Brother,” traces the colliding fates of two young men, the sons of an immigrant taxi driver in Paris.
Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction
In her first story collection, “Grand Union,” the British novelist moves beyond traditional narrative into the surreal, the essayistic, the pointillist.
The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Victorian Children’s Literature
“The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit,” a new biography by Eleanor Fitzsimons, is an admiring portrait of the author of “The Railway Children” and dozens of other books.
A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients
Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays examine subjects across the millenniums, from Sappho and Euripides to “Game of Thrones.”
The Power and Hurt of Growing Up Young, Black and Gay
In “How We Fight for Our Lives,” the poet Saeed Jones recalls a coming-of-age marked by sexual violence and bigotry as well as tenderness.
Donald Trump and Immigration
“Border Wars,” by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, details the administration’s draconian immigration policies.
Taking Dickens to the Dark Side
Jon Clinch’s new novel, “Marley,” is a noirish prequel to “A Christmas Carol,” revealing just how Scrooge became, well, Scrooge.
At 5, She Protested Homosexuality. Now She Protests the Church That Made Her Do It.
In Megan Phelps-Roper’s “Unfollow,” a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church relives her extremist childhood.
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