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Novelist N.K. Jemisin, second from left, holds her BoBi Award. At far left is Brooklyn Book Festival Co-Producer Carolyn Greer. Brooklyn Literary Council Chairman Johnny Temple is second from right and Brooklyn Book Festival Co-Producer Liz Koch stands next to him. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

N.K. Jemisin receives the Brooklyn Book Festival’s BoBi Award

September 16 | By Lore Croghan

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Therapy dog Little Dude, the star of Cara Zelas’ “Big World of Little Dude” delighted children at the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Children’s Day event at MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday. Shown: Simon Pizarro, 8, holds his little cousin Johannah Eder, 2, while she pets Little Dude. Mom Meghan LeBorious watches the action. Eagle photo by Mary Frost

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Illustrator Isabel Roxas shows children her book “Let Me Finish” while author Minh Le, right, reads it out loud at the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Children’s Day, held at MetroTech Commons in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday. The kids-only event is a prelude to the grownup Brooklyn Book Festival taking place Sunday at Brooklyn Borough Hall and nearby locations. Eagle photos by Mary Frost

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This portrait of Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell, will be on loan from the National Portrait Gallery in London for the "It's Alive: Frankenstein at 200" exhibition, at the Morgan Library, NYC, this October. Curators John Bidwell and Elizabeth Denlinger will preview the exhibition in a talk and power point presentation at the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair. Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

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GEAR UP GRANT OFFERS COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS FOR LOW-INCOME STUDENTS

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MTA TO RECONFIGURE BROOKLYN BUS NETWORK

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