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Enchanted Ivy: A Review
Lily Carter’s future is at Princeton University. Her grandfather went to Princeton. Going to Princeton would allow Lily to move away from home without feeling guilt about not taking care of her mother....
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"Strings Attached": A Review
Kit Corrigan has a lot of hopes and dreams when she gets to New York City in the autumn of 1950. What she doesn’t have is a steady job, a room of her own, or any surety that she has what it takes to...
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"So Much Closer": A Review
Sometimes Brooke just knows things, partly thanks to her excellent memory. But sometimes she just knows for reasons that have nothing to do with that.That’s the way it is with Scott Abrams. Brooke is...
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"Raised by Wolves": A Review
When Brynn was four years old, her life changed forever when a rogue werewolf killed her parents. Rescued by the Stone River Pack and Marked by the pack’s alpha, Callum, Brynn’s safety is a matter of...
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All These Things I've Done: A Review
Anya Balanchine lives in a world where chocolate is illegal, water is scarce and New York City is a ghost of what it once was. Central Park is no longer a park. The Metropolitan Museum is a night...
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"Drink, Slay, Love": A Review
Pearl is like a lot of 16-year-old girls. She likes to steal cars and drive too fast with her handsome, dangerous boyfriend Jadrien. She wears a lot of black. She is extremely flammable in direct...
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"Legend": A Review of the Book You Should Be Reading After The Hunger Games
June and Day are part of the same nation: The Republic of America. They’re in the same city: Los Angeles, California. Their lives could not be more different.Born into an elite family, June lives in a...
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Poetry Writing With Adult New Readers, Strategy 1: The List Poem
You have not crossed the bridges I have crossed. You have not listened to the music I have listened to. You have not been in the top of the World Trade Center the way I have been there. You have not...
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Book Discussion at Epiphany: "Home" by Toni Morrison
For the month of April, the Epiphanybook discussion group discussed the novel Home by Toni Morrison. It is the story of Frank Money, a poor man from the South who goes to fight in the Korean War as a...
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Book Discussion at Epiphany: "Caleb's Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks
The month of May found the EpiphanyBook Club tackling a writer beloved by its members. Geraldine Brooks has written several novels, the book club previously read People of the Book. This time around we...
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Book Discussion at Epiphany: "The Dovekeepers" by Alice Hoffman
Continuing with a theme of reading historical fiction the book group read The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. This novel is a sprawling tale based on another event in history. It was our largest book to...
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Book Discussion at Epiphany, "I Am Forbidden" by Anouk Markovits
Jewish history is quite extensive and encompasses a wide range of stories. For the month of July the group continued to focus on this history, as we did in the previous month's selection, by reading...
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I Stayed Up Late Reading Cruel Beauty and Why You Should Too
If you want a YA book with demon lovers, fairy tale-Greek mythology mashups, wicked heroines, a castle full of shadowy secrets, and a passionate romance that begins with a murder attempt, look no...
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Homemade Natural Beauty Products Made Easy
The Epiphany Library is offering two workshops in April on making beauty products at home. While in the class we are specifically only making two items, lip balm and body scrub (both of which are...
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Waiting for "Empire" Reading and Viewing List
Anyone even vaguely aware of pop culture right now has probably heard of the television show Empire. It recently became one of the biggest new shows on television. For those unfamiliar, it is the story...
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What’s Making Us Happy, Part 2
Earlier this week, we posted a list of podcasts, music, and books that make us happy—an idea inspired by the fine folks at NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour.Today, we have Part 2: what’s making us happy in...
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Move over, Binge-Watching...
... because it's time for some binge-reading.It’s still the beginning of resolution season, and we suspect that some of you have vowed that this year, you’ll turn off the TV, stop looking at your...
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LOL-brary Books
Eliot may claim that April is the cruelest month, but we’re pretty sure it’s February.To fight off the dreariness, our NYPL book experts compiled a list of adult fiction that makes them laugh out loud,...
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"The Piper's Son": A Review
Thomas Finch Mackee is many things to many people: musician, friend, and most recently, complete jerk.Five years ago, his world seemed certain. He was friends with the girls from school. He wanted to...
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A Tale of Two Castles: A Review
Elodie comes to the town of Two Castles with one goal: to become a mansioner. Her greatest hope, her only actual plan upon arriving in town, is to apprentice herself to a mansioner that she might...
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