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  • iTunes App Store

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  • NOOK Store

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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 March 29, 2020.

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

New York Times - Children's Bestsellers (27 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 March 29, 2020.

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New York Times - Bestselling Nonfiction (10 items)

Bestselling nonfiction titles, updated every week! This list includes bestselling nonfiction for the week of March 29, 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.

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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

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Library Reads: Favorite of Favorites 2016 (10 items)

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

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Oprah's Book Club (73 items)

Bestselling selections from Oprah's Book Club.

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Bookflix is a digital resource available through the Free Library that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction ebooks!

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Celebrate Black History Month and the lives and achievements of African Americans through our Digital Media Portal.

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A Reenactment: Charles Dickens Meets Edgar Allan Poe at The Free Library of Philadelphia in the Elkins Room.

Spotlight on Special Collections: When Dickens Met Poe

This blog post is in honor of  Charles Dickens' birthday. The prolific Victorian author of "epic stories" like  Oliver Twist and David Copperfield , was born on Portsea Island off England's south-central…

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What ebooks are you looking forward to reading in 2020?

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For this month's Digital Media Spotlight , we turn our attention towards ebooks and the news that in 2019, the Free Library reached the 1 million+ ebook checkout mark ! And it would seem public libraries, in general, were having a…

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Writer, actor, and director Mark Gatiss visited The Rosenbach in June 2019 to shoot scenes for his new documentary, <i>In Search of Dracula</i>.

Mark Gatiss Visits The Rosenbach to Film New Dracula Documentary

The Rosenbach was delighted to have writer, actor, and director Mark Gatiss visit in June to shoot scenes for his In Search of Dracula documentary, which was just released on the BBC. Along with Stephen Moffat , Gatiss created a new…

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Here's just some of the higjlights from the Spring 2020 Free Library Author Events schedule!

Spring 2020 Author Events Preview

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A stack of some of Dena's favorite books read in 2019!

Dena's Favorite Books of 2019

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Charles Dickens

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The Song-Poems Concert Series Fall 2019

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F. Scott Fitzgerald holding a copy of <i>The Great Gatsby</i>

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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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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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