As we continue our fall College Readiness series, Dr. P – Dominque Padurano, Ph.D, founder and president of Crimson Coaching – offers some tips on writing a great college application essay and why the essay matters so much. Dr. P writes:  “For decades each fall, millions of…
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Many high school students are wondering how to be prepared for the upcoming school year as COVID-19 continues to be part of our new normal. Attending virtual College Readiness programs through Queens Public Library can help you to adapt and prepare to apply to college. Read more…
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Looking for new music? Look no further than your local Queens Library! Every month, our expert staff will bring you the best of what's new in our physical and digital collections. We had to skip June's New Music blog due to unforseen circumstances, so expect the next couple of…
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The teens at the Broadway Branch Queens Library are learning how to script, shoot,edit and act this month. Every Monday at 3:30 through the month of April, producer and screenwriter Alan Webber of Rural Route Film Festival leads an interactive workshop with young adults to…
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)By Marjane Satrapi –Far superior to the movie and second volume which followed it, this beautiful graphic memoir is a spare, sometimes stark remembrance of a girlhood in Iran under the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi’s monochrome, heavy…
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