This program will take place in the community room.

2024's Long Island Reads Book is....

"Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World" by Christian Cooper.

Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, "Better Living Through Birding" exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself.

Stop by the circulation desk to pick-up a copy to keep, while supplies last, beginning March 1st. A limited supply of large print copies are available as well.

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