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Top Checkouts at 53rd Street Library

  • Lessons in chemistry

    By Garmus, Bonnie
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  • The bill of obligations : the ten habits of good citizens

    By Haass, Richard
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  • Someone else's shoes

    By Moyes, Jojo
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  • The inheritance games

    By Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
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  • Everyone in my family has killed someone

    By Stevenson, Benjamin
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  • Fragile cargo : the World War II race to save the treasures of China's Forbidden City

    By Brookes, Adam
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  • Unnatural history

    By Kellerman, Jonathan
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  • Looking for Jane

    By Marshall, Heather
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  • Gravity's Rainbow

    By Thomas Pynchon
    Picked By Brian Levy
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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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