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Members and friends, we hope you’ve been having a good September! If any of you are planning to be at the Brooklyn Book Festival later this month, we’d love for

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Elizabeth Taylor
30 Books
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

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30 Books
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney