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24 Aug, 2025

Monday Matinee @ Morningside: September 8 at 1 pm

By |August 24th, 2025|Adults, Events, Library News|

Look for a different movie every Monday at 1 pm! September 8th Film: This 2024 movie (Rated PG-13) is an adaptation of a hugely popular "Booktok" novel. When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

12 Jul, 2025

August’s Open Book Club: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

By |July 12th, 2025|Adults, Events, Library News, Open Book Club, Reader Services|

With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, ”Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.”