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New York Times - Bestselling Fiction by Bestsellers

Bestselling fiction titles, updated every week! This list includes bestselling fiction for the week of January 12, 2020.

Where the crawdads sing cover
The institute : a novel cover
The guardians cover
Blue moon : a Jack Reacher novel cover
Twisted twenty-six : a Stephanie Plum novel cover
A minute to midnight cover

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Fantastic beasts : the crimes of Grindelwald : the original screenplay cover

New York Times - Children's Bestsellers (29 items)

Bestselling Children's titles, updated every week! This list includes bestselling children's fiction, children's series, and Children's Picture Books for the week of January 12, 2020.

Educated : a memoir cover

New York Times - Bestselling Nonfiction (10 items)

Bestselling nonfiction titles, updated every week! This list includes bestselling nonfiction for the week of January 12, 2020.

Classical Chinese poetry : an anthology cover

Poetry in Translation (6 items)

Take pleasure in reading poets from other languages and cultures.

Brains for lunch : a zombie novel in haiku?! cover

Poetry - Novels in Verse (19 items)

Poetry with special appeal for tweens and teens.

crush cover

Poetry - Great Contemporary Poetry (5 items)

Selections from the Literature Department.

Prelude to bruise : poetry cover

Award Winners (20 items)

Award-winning Bestsellers, fiction and nonfiction

The woman in cabin 10 cover

Library Reads: Favorite of Favorites 2016 (10 items)

Librarians across the country have chosen their ten favorite books published in 2016.

A fine balance cover

Oprah's Book Club (73 items)

Bestselling selections from Oprah's Book Club.

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Spring 2020 Author Events Preview

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Happy Birthday to Kurt Vonnegut (and Kilgore Trout?)

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The Song-Poems Concert Series Fall 2019

Song-Poems Concert Series Returns to Literature Deparment This Fall

The 'Song-Poems' concert series , which debuted in the Spring of 2019, is finishing up this calendar year with three special events. The concert series invites Philadelphia-based musicians to come into the library and utilize…

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Check out these new titles available in October in our catalog and at a neighborhood library near you!

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Our October suggestions are a mix of fantasy, history, romance, health, and adventure—truly, something for everyone—and they’re all coming to a neighborhood library near you this month!   Young Children (Up to 2nd…

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Happy Birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Changes to ebook Lending Coming to a Library Near You

As you may have read in the news, recent changes in the publishing industry will soon impact library customers’ access to some newly released ebook titles. Macmillan Publishers—one of the "Big 5" book publishers in…

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Agatha Christie

Happy Birthday, Agatha Christie!

In the course of a casual conversation with a new acquaintance this summer, chatter turned—as it inevitably does, when one of you works in a library—first to books, then to mystery novels, and then to my minor obsession with…

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These are just a fraction of the incredible authors, and their equally incredible new books, appearing at the Free Library this autumn!

Fall 2019 Author Events: Cultural Connections

During this fall season of Free Library Author Events , we’re seeing a lot of cultural connections between our authors and speakers. Let’s talk about the events taking place two days in a row, both off-site at the same…

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Celebrate National Read a Book Day!

Today is National Read a Book Day , and as a book lover and Free Library staff member it’s my sworn duty to encourage everyone I meet today to pick up a book, so expect some recommendations here. Reading can be so much more than…

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When I first read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison , at 15 years old, I knew it would haunt me. The story fed my soul—I was shocked at its lovely, yet stinging taste, but realized I had always been craving it. Never had my struggle…

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George Orwell in Context

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Daguerreotype portrait of a young Walt Whitman.

We Celebrate Him: Walt Whitman at 200

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In my version of a perfect world, there are two kinds of fiction readers: Those who have already read (and loved) multi-award-winning author N.K Jemisin 's work and those who will. Soon. If you find yourself in neither category (!),…

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The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners Are...

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A sampling of some of the recent Polish literature donations to the Free Library from the Polish Book Institute's Project Bookshelf initiative.

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