Friday, Mar 29, 2024
Today's Hours: 10 AM - 6 PM

Main Menu

Directions

225 South Oyster Bay Road
Syosset, NY 11791
516-921-7161

Enter your starting address:


 

More Information

Hours

Hours of Service

  • Monday-Thursday: 9 AM to 9 PM
  • Friday: 10 AM to 6 PM
  • Saturday: 9 AM to 5 PM
  • Sunday: 12 PM to 5 PM
    (Closed Sundays July through Labor Day)

Click for Holiday Hours 

Contact

225 South Oyster Bay Road
Syosset, NY 11791-5897

516-921-7161
Phone Directory

Fax: 516-921-8771


Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions, comments, or concerns.


Quotes About Libraries

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

 

- Henri Frederic Amiel

 

 

Share

Pin It

top

20-Something Title Swap - May 10, 2010RSS

Anthem

By Ayn Rand

Classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We" - a world that deprives individuals of name, independence and values.

Big Trouble

By Dave Barry

The humorist describes the lives of the troubled denizens of Coconut Grove.

Briar Rose

By Jane Yolen

A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale finds Briar Rose living in forests patrolled by the German army during World War II in a dark tale of the Holocaust.

By Invitation Only

By Jodi Della Femina

“Nobody knows the Hamptons like Jodi Della Femina, who captures the inside world of love, society, and scandal in this delicious summer page-turner (From the Publisher).”

Child 44

By Tom Rob Smith
Series Leo Demidov
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

Get Shorty

By Elmore Leonard

Chili Palmer, a Miami loanshark, and Harry Zimm, a film producer in debt, become reluctant partners as they become embroiled in the seductive but deadly Hollywood scene.

Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

By Mohja Kahf

“Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race. It is a riveting debut from an important new voice (From the Publisher).”

Great and Terrible Beauty

By Libba Bray
Series Gemma Doyle Trilogy

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen–year–old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Green Mile

By Stephen King

The story of a convicted killer on death row and one of the prison guards assigned there.

 

Became the movie: The Green Mile.

Happiness Project

By Gretchen Craft Rubin
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

"Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project (From the Publisher)."

Harry Potter Series

By J.K. Rowling

A young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

 

Became 8 movies: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.

Hello Kitty Must Die

By Angela S. Choi

Determined to thwart her parents' plans to marry her off into Asian suburbia, Fiona seeks her freedom at any price.

I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your  Class President

By Josh Lieb

12-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually an evil genius.

Last Lecture

By Randy Pausch
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Over the years, numerous professors have given talks entitled "The Last Lecture." For Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch, however, the topic was no mere formality... he already knew that he had metastatic pancreatic cancer (From Barnes and Noble).”

My Enemy’s Cradle

By Sara Young
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“One of the lesser-known aspects of the Nazi regime was the Lebensborn program, which promoted the expansion of the "master race" by encouraging German women and those who were racially "pure" in its occupied countries to bear as many children as possible. Young explores the experiences of these women in her fictional story of Cyrla… Unbeknown to the officials, Cyrla is half Jewish and must walk a tightrope as she plots her escape (Library Journal).”

Nineteen Minutes

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

“Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who -- if anyone -- has the right to judge someone else (From the Publisher)?”

Prada and Prejudice

By Mandy Hubbard

Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends her back to 1815.

Pretty Little Liars Series

By Sara Shepard

Four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who knows their secrets.

Sookie Stackhouse Series

By Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana with a crush on a "bad boy" vampire.

 

Became the TV show: True Blood.

Tilt-a-Whirl

By Chris Grabenstein
Series John Creepak Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-A-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the summer tourist town of Sea Haven. John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq heads the investigation.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

By Gregory Maguire
Series Wicked Years

Set in Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, strives to avenge her sister's death.