BPL · Book · 2019
Parable of the sower
Octavia E Butler
In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages." --
- Demand pressureDemand pressure: composite score across the 12 tracked branches — rewards low availability, branches all out, recent drops, and (when exposed) public hold counts. Higher = harder to get borough-wide.
- 853
- Available
- 2/32
- Branches all out
- 9/11
- Public holdsPublic holds: BPL exposes 'people waiting' at the bib (record) level — one number per work for the entire 60+ branch BPL system, NOT just the 12 tracked branches. We capture the number when it's there. 'Not exposed' means BPL didn't expose it on this scrape — we never substitute zero for missing data.
- 6
Public holds: 6system-widePublic holds: BPL exposes 'people waiting' at the bib (record) level — one number per work for the entire 60+ branch BPL system, NOT just the 12 tracked branches. We capture the number when it's there. 'Not exposed' means BPL didn't expose it on this scrape — we never substitute zero for missing data.
ISBN 9781538732182
Current availability across the 12 tracked branches
| Branch | Available | Total | Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Ridge | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Bedford | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Brooklyn Heights | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Coney Island | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Crown Heights | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Flatbush | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Greenpoint | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Kings Highway | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Williamsburgh | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Bushwick | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Sunset Park | 1 | 4 | 2 |
7-day movement
Recent movement
Greenpoint · 1 → 0 available
Sunset Park · 0 → 1 available
Kings Highway · 1 → 0 available