Queens Library's Blog

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Black Fridays of Yore and Lore	The day after Thanksgiving has become the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States, earning the nickname “Black Friday” to set it apart from all the other manic shopping...	17-01-2013	11-27-2012	No	jking	Read More..	Login to comment	History	Library	Alex Kava, Ashley and JaQuavis, Black Friday, economy, gilded age, James Patterson, Patricia Ryan, shopping, terrorists, urban fiction, Wall Street	Jeremy Walsh	Blog entry
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again: Celebrating the 75 Anniversary and the New Film Coming to Theaters	This year not only marks 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, but 2012 will also bring today's generation closer to the beloved storyline with the...	21-11-2012	11-21-2012	No	MKearl	Read More..	Login to comment	Books	Library	Books, Lord of the Rings, reviews, the Hobbit, Tolkien	Bob Schnell	Blog entry
The Nameless Maelstrom that Topped Hurricane Sandy	Sandy – it weakened from hurricane strength before it made landfall – is far from the only major storm to hit the New York City and Long Island region over the last half-century. But...	17-01-2013	11-16-2012	No	jking	Read More..	Login to comment	History	Library	1938, beavers, Everett Allen, flooding, hurricane sandy, Hurricanes, New York City, R.A. Scotti, sandy, storm damage, Superstorm Sandy	Jeremy Walsh	Blog entry
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...	07-11-2012	11-07-2012	No	jking	Read More..	Login to comment		Library	book bus, crisis, disaster, hurricane, hurricane sandy, peninsula, queens library, reference, rockaways, sandy, social service	Joanne King	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...	26-10-2012	10-26-2012	No	jking	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	Blog entry