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  • Intermezzo : a novel

    By Rooney, Sally
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  • No one is talking about this

    By Lockwood, Patricia
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  • The author's guide to murder : a novel

    By Williams, Beatriz
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  • Tell me everything : a novel

    By Strout, Elizabeth
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  • All fours : a novel

    By July, Miranda
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  • The demon of unrest : a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

    By Larson, Erik
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  • James : a novel

    By Everett, Percival
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Art Exhibition: Véronique Coutant-Godard

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Véronique Coutant-Godard is an American artist born in France, and lives currently in New York. She specializes in printmaking, exploring different techniques like linoleum cut, woodcut, lithograph and monotype.

Her focus is printmaking, specifically relief block printing. As a printmaker, she finds inspiration in nature, and from travelling overseas in Europe, Africa, and North  and South America. Her series of linocuts at the 53rd Street Library are inspired by Aesop’s Fables.

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