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The Brooklyn Library is a free workspace, a large number of books and a cozy coffee shop inside
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Staff Picks
The BOOK EATERS
By Sunyi Dean
An Unusual Sci-Fi Story About A Book
Eater Woman Who Tries Desperately To
Save Her Dangerous Mind-Eater Son
From Tradition And Certain Death.
Complete With Dysfunctional Family
Values, Light Sapphic Romance, And A
Strong, Complex Protagonist. Not For
The Faint Of Heart.
Staff Picks
CACKLE
By Rachel Harrison
Are Your Halloween Movies Of Choice
The Witches Of Eastwick And Practical
Magic? Look No Further Than Here -
Where A Woman Recovering From A
Breakup Moves To A Quaint Town In
Upstate New York And Befriends A
Beautiful Witch.
Staff Picks
DANTE: POET OF THE SECULAR WORLD
By Erich Auerbach
Auerbach's Engaging Book Places The
'Comedy' Within The Tradition Of Epic,
Tragedy, And Philosophy In General,
Arguing For Dante's Uniqueness As One
Who Raised The Individual And His
Drama Of Soul Into Something Of
Divine Significance—An Inspired
Introduction To Dante's Main Themes.
Staff Picks
THE LAST QUEEN
By Clive Irving
A Timely And Revelatory New
Biography Of Queen Elizabeth (And Her
Family) Exploring How The Windsors
Have Evolved And Thrived As The
Modern World Has Changed Around
Them.
Staff Picks
THE BODY
By Stephen King
Powerful novel that takes you back to
a nostalgic time, exploring both the
beauty and danger and loss of
innocence that is youth.
Staff Picks
Carry: A MEMOIR OF SURVIVAL ON STOLEN LAND
By Toni Jenson
This memoir about the author's
relationship with gun violence feels
both expansive and intimate, resulting
in a lyrical indictment of the way
things are.
Staff Picks
DAYS OF DISTRACTION
By Alexandra Chang
A sardonic view of Silicon Valley
culture, a meditation on race, and a
journal of displacement and
belonging, all in one form-defying
package of spare prose.
Staff Picks
DOMINICANA
By Angie Cruz
A fascinating story of a teenage girl
who marries a man twice her age with
the promise to bring her to America.
Her marriage is an opportunity for her
family to eventually immigrate. For
fans of Isabel Allende and Julia
Alvarez.
Staff Picks
CRUDE: A MEMOIR
By Pablo Fajardo & Sophie Tardy-Joubert
Drawing and color by Damien Roudeau
| This book illustrates the struggles of
a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans as
they try to sue the ChevronTexaco
company for damage their oil fields
did to the Amazon and her people
Staff Picks
LET MY PEOPLE GO SURFING
By Yvon Chouinard
Chouinard—climber, businessman,
environmentalist—shares tales of
courage and persistence from his
experience of founding and leading
Patagonia, Inc. Full title: Let My
People Go Surfing: The Education of a
Reluctant Businessman, Including 10
More Years of Business Unusual.
Staff Picks
THE OCTOPUS MUSEUM: POEMS
By Brenda Shaughnessy
This collection of bold and scathingly
beautiful feminist poems imagines
what comes after our current age of
environmental destruction, racism,
sexism, and divisive politics.
Staff Picks
SHARK DIALOGUES: A NOVEL
By Kiana Davenport
An epic saga of seven generations of
family encompasses the
tumultuous history of Hawaii as a
Hawaiian woman gathers her four
granddaughters together in an erotic
tale of villains and dreamers, queens
and revolutionaries, lepers and
healers.
Staff Picks
CASUAL CONVERSATION
By Renia White
White's Impressive Debut Collection
Takes Readers Through And Beyond
The Concepts Of Conversation And The
Casual - Both What We Say To Each
Other And What We Don't, Examining
The Possibilities Around How We
Construct and Communicate Identity.
Staff Picks
THE GREAT FIRE
By Lou Ureneck
The Harrowing Story Of An Ordinary
American And A Principled Naval
Officer Who, Horrified By The Burning
Of Smyrna, Led An Extraordinary
Rescue Effort That Saved A Quarter Of
A Million Refugees From The Armenian
Genocide
Staff Picks
RICKEY: THE LIFE AND LEGEND
By Howard Bryant
With The Fall Rolling Around, One Can't
Help But Think Of Baseball's
Postseason Coming Up! And What
Better Way To Prepare For It Than
Reading The Biography Of One Of The
Game's All-Time Greatest Performers,
The Man Of Steal, Rickey Henderson?
Staff Picks
SLUG: AND OTHER STORIES
By Megan Milks
Exes Tegan and Sara Find Themselves
Chained Together By Hairballs Of
Codependency. A Father And Child
Experience The Shared Trauma Of
Giving Birth To Gods From Their
Wounds.
Coffee Shop
In our library, we have of cozy coffee shop, welcoming in customers with frothy cappuccinos and friendly conversation.
You can get a favorite book and read in coffee shop. our barista to cook you best coffee, and also you can try desserts
from bakery.
Our Contacts
For All Library Inquiries:
Please Call (617) 730-2370
For TTY Service, Please Call (617) 730-2370
Putterham Library: (617) 730-2385
Senior Staff
Library Director: Amanda Hirst
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