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    nypl: What’s Your Literary Waterloo? We asked our NYPL staff members: What’s a book you’ve never been able to conquer? 

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    nypl: Seven Picture Books for Kwanzaa Kwanzaa—celebrated every year between December 26 and January 1—brings many African-American families together to enjoy the “first fruits of the harvest,” the Swahili phrase from which its name is derived. Its traditions, like lighting the seven candles on the kinara and feasting at a party on the last night

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    nypl: Every year we compile our top 10 checkouts, both system-wide and for each of  our three boroughs: The Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan.  The results are in for 2017!

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    usnatarchives: RG 26: Lighthouses, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Cartographic’s Favorites of 2017 by Brandi OswaldCo-written with Amy Edwards The Cartographic Branch holds a wide variety of materials. While working with these documents for reference requests, projects, or research room requests, our staff comes across some very cool and significant documents. Today, we are featuring a

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    ourpresidents: “Do presidents ever feel bad for having so much stuff at Christmas when some people have nothing?” Last week, students from a 6th grade Social Studies class in Texas took to Twitter to ask us about Christmas at the White House. The question above merited a longer response than 280 characters, and Corey Carr, 

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    yesterdaysprint: The Times, Munster, Indiana, December 29, 1917

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