BPL Presents Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Literary and cultural programs at @BKLYNlibrary.

38 books

A visit

Fitzgerald Ross

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On 5/10 join us to hear Jennifer Egan (@Egangoodsquad) answer questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad. This is a BBC World Book Club Event (@BBCWBC) and it will be moderated by Katherine Lanpher. Don't miss out on this live talk! RSVP: https://bklynlib.org/3KiESQs https://t.co/WTa98O86AU

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The Tobacco Wives

Adele Myers

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Join us this Tuesday at the Park Slope Library to hear Adele Myers (@AdeleJam) speak about her brand new novel The Tobacco Wives! @HarperCollins @WmMorrowBooks Come hear about this fascinating look at post-war women’s activism. Sign up here: https://bklynlib.org/3MlXnoi https://t.co/Tk0k12Bbe4

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Run and Hide

Pankaj Mishra

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If you missed Pankaj Mishra discussing his new novel, RUN AND HIDE (@fsgbooks) with Jennifer Egan (@Egangoonsquad) last week, you're in luck! Watch the recording of our live event here: https://t.co/oa0cHVVQAk

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

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@greenlightbklyn and @bklynlibrary are thrilled to celebrate the launch of You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, the debut romance novel by @azemezi, bestselling author of Bitter. @simonschuster Join us at the Central Library next Tuesday! https://bklynlib.org/3FWBVDP https://t.co/dXYO4J7ScI

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Prescribee

Chia-Lun Chang

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"How to Stay Mad" from Chia-Lun Chang's debut poetry collection, Prescribee (@nightboatbooks)🗻 Come celebrate the collection's release at @BKLYNlibrary on Tuesday, November 15 at 7 pm! ft. Paolo Javier, @emily_skillings, and Jenny Xie. Register here: https://t.co/9zkLNxGBlu https://t.co/9fVQBfxHgf

Paperback, 2022

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz

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Tomorrow at Brooklyn Heights Library, Hernan Diaz discusses his new novel Trust (@riverheadbooks), a story of new money, aristocrats, Wall Street Tycoons, and the reality-warping force of capital. RSVP here and join us on April 11 at 6 pm: https://t.co/K05eSQnQI7 https://t.co/TBRRly3z2J

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

Alice Walker

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This Wednesday Pulitzer-Prize winning author Alice Walker will join Imani Perry (@imaniperry) and the Center for Brooklyn History (@brooklynhistory) to discuss the publication of her edited journals: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. RSVP: https://bklynlib.org/3F70Iod https://t.co/33koRXaCEW

Paperback, 2024

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind

N. Scott Momaday

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Come celebrate National Poetry month with us on 4/26! Listen to Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday (@NSMomaday) read from his beautiful new poetry collection, Dream Drawings. Learn more and sign up here: https://t.co/7PLOoWE44c https://t.co/MWCABXKiLf

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

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Three of Patricia Highsmith's novels — The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, and The Price of Salt (aka Carol) — were adapted into major motion pictures. Join us at @BKLYNlibrary at 8 pm to explore Highsmith's own life through this new documentary! https://t.co/3o0UIAy1Up

Paperback, 2021

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

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Paperback, 2008

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book