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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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About

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 one 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.

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.

Coffee & Tea

Cold Brew Coffee

French Press Pot

Espresso

Cappuccino

Hot tea

Cold tea

Desserts & Cakes

Forest Gateau

$16

Blue Moon

$16

Truffle Cake

$15

Chocolate Cake

$18

Poet's Dream Cake

$16

Pineapple Cake

$14

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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