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  • Word Up Recirculation: Sheba the Alley Cat Launch Party with Lauren Fornoles

    Word Up Recirculation 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.), New York, NY, United States

    Meet SHEBA THE ALLEY CAT—a plucky feline heroine with a nose for adventure at the launch party of her story! Lauren Fornoles will read this spooky—but not scary—Halloween story, perfect for kids ages 3 and up. Lauren will also read from her other new Halloween-themed book, Monster's Day at School! Following the story time, kids will get to color and create costume masks and learn about black cats with The Cat Collective NYC.

    $5

  • Hudson View Gardens: Two Authors, One Poet, One Spoken Word Artist

    Hudson View Gardens Lounge 116 Pinehurst Ave. (@ 183rd Street), New York, United States

    Two Authors, Poet Constantine Contogenis and Spoken Word Artist Tracy Jones will share an evening of their work and of each other's work.  Contongenis will read from his recently published translations of the great Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy.  Jones will perform work that made his name in Spoken Work circles.

    FREE

  • Inwood Library: Meet the Story Maker – Christopher Silas Neal of We Leap Together

    Inwood Library 4790 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for a special storytime with Christopher Silas Neal, author & illustrator of We Leap Together! Enjoy a morning of reading, drawing, and imagination, and meet the creator behind the story. This program is for children ages birth to 5 and their caregivers.

    FREE

  • Word Up: Ayendy Bonifacio’s BLESS ME, PAPI

    Word Up Community Bookshop 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St., New York, NY, United States

    Word Up welcomes Ayendy Bonifacio for his new coming-of-age tale, Bless Me, Papi, about a young Dominican American boy facing a grave loss and a feathered phantom. "Humanity shines through in this work that is notable for its cast of memorable, well-wrought characters. The pages sing with fresh, lyrical prose; a must-read." —Kirkus, starred review

    $5

  • Hispanic Society: Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman

    Hispanic Society Museum & Library Audubon Terrace, Broadway betw 155th & 156th Sts., New York, NY, United States

    Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman. Join the Hispanic Society for a conversation with Jonathan Goldman on the Puerto Rican experience in 1920s New York. In Hidden Histories of Jazz Age: New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange, Jonathan Goldman offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City. Jonathan Ezra Goldman’s whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices.

    FREE with RSVP