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Questions from the Edge	Just a couple of days after a hurricane devastated Queens’ waterfront communities and left many others without power or heat, Queens Library’s Book Bus rolled up and parked in front of...	0	07-11-2012	11-07-2012	No	jking	0	Read More..	Login to comment		Library	book bus, crisis, disaster, hurricane, hurricane sandy, peninsula, queens library, reference, rockaways, sandy, social service	Joanne King	0	Blog entry
Halloween Reads: A Bone-Chilling Bibliography	Few things are as scarily satisfying as a good ghost story or a gothic horror tale involving the discovery of some vast, dark secret in a forgotten nook. Most of us know the famous practitioners of...	0	26-10-2012	10-26-2012	No	jking	0	Read More..	Login to comment		Library	Cthulu, Edgar Allen Poe, Famous Ghost Storie, genre fiction, Ghost Ship, ghosts, Guillermo Del Toro, H.P. Lovecraft, Halloween, Hellboy, horror, Richard Middleton, Rudyard Kipling, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, The Haunting of Hill House, The Jungle Book	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry
The Art of the Heist (of Art)	Art lovers had a lot to fret about recently: The Associated Press reported that on Tuesday, October 16, thieves broke into a Dutch museum and stole seven paintings by legendary artists such as...	0	08-01-2013	10-24-2012	No	jking	1	Read More..	1 Comment Login to comment	General	Library	Anthony Amore, Art, Dr. No, Goya, heist, history, Isabella Stewart Gardner, James Bond, King of Hei, masterpieces, Matisse, Monet, museums, Picasso, Rembrandt, robbery, security, Stealing Rembrandts, supervillains, theft, Tom Mashberg, Topkapi, true crime	jking	0	Blog entry
My First Album: The B-52’s	The topic of “my first album” seems so quaint and odd in this modern age of immediate downloading of virtually any song you could imagine, streaming audio, and file-sharing. ...	0	11-10-2012	10-11-2012	No	rschnell	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Music	Library	albums, B52s, dance this mess around, Music, records, rock, songs	rschnell	0	Blog entry
Banned Books Week Trivia Challenge	In honor of the 30th year of Banned Books Week—a time to celebrate the freedom to read and speak out against censorship—a Queens Librarian has put together this banned-book trivia...	5	02-10-2012	09-28-2012	No	MKearl	6	Read More..	6 Comments Login to comment	Books	Library	banned books, banned books week, Books, censorship, reading	Bob S.	100	Blog entry