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Exhibitions
Rhythm Is My Business: Women Who Shaped Jazz
Open Now. Through June 13, 2025
Library for the Performing Arts
Kids & Teens
Discover Programs for Kids
Ongoing
Various Locations
Other Events
Research 101: Get Started Researching at NYPL!
Ongoing
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online

Staff Picks

Jade and Nia are going on the Jewish Heritage road trip of the American South they’d planned with their late best friend Michal and must come to terms with their past to have any hope of a future.
Best New Romance
Peer through the lens of Black photographer Roy DeCarava and witness the beauty of 1940s Harlem.
Best Books for Kids 2024

In the Collection

The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
AdultFiction
Love After Midnight
Sister Souljah
AdultFiction
Snake
Amanda Lee Joe
AdultFiction
Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin
AdultFiction
The Black Utopians
Aaron Robertson
AdultNonfiction
Navola
Paolo Bacigalupi
AdultFantasy
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
Young AdultNonfiction
Chickenpox
Remy Lai
ChildrenGraphic Novel
Farewell, Amethystine
Walter Mosley
AdultFiction
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Young AdultNonfiction

From Our Blog

Picture Books Celebrating Black Artists & Their Work
Introducing young readers to visionary artists and their works including descriptions of how their artistic lives began in childhood.
Where to Start With James Baldwin
If you are new to Baldwin, these recommendations explore his work as a mirror to the world, history, ourselves, and our potential to grow.

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