De parte de todos nosotros en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, la Biblioteca Central y las 72 sucursales, nos complace anunciar los mejores libros de 2023, seleccionados por nuestro personal…
A lo largo de los siglos, diversas formas de expresión han sido prohibidas o destruidas, y sus creadores han sido censurados, encarcelados, torturados, asesinados y exiliados. Actualmente, bibliotecas…
De parte de todos nosotros en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, la Biblioteca Central y las 72 sucursales, nos complace anunciar los mejores libros de 2022, seleccionados por nuestro personal…
De parte de todos nosotros en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, la Biblioteca Central y las 72 sucursales, nos complace anunciar los mejores libros de 2021, seleccionados por nuestro personal…
Las novelas y la poesía de Charles Bukowski siguen contando con seguidores fieles y admiradores que nunca se cansan de leer sus libros. Disponemos de esos libros en formato físico, y hay una buena…
Es bueno que la vida de los autores infantiles no siempre se refleje en los libros que escribieron. Algunos de los libros más perdurables y queridos fueron escritos por personas cuyas vidas no eran…
Aparte de los pueblos indígenas, somos una nación de inmigrantes, tanto los que llegaron por elección propia como los que llegaron por la fuerza. A medida que nuestro país crece y cambia con la…
Con motivo del fin del Mes de la Historia de la Mujer, queremos ofrecerles algunos libros electrónicos y audiolibros sobre mujeres intrépidas y aventureras que viajaron por el mero placer de hacer…
La serialización televisiva de dos novelas, Sharp Objects y Big Little Lies, ha llamado la atención sobre una nueva generación de novelas. Son historias de suspenso, psicológicas, atrevidas y con…
En retrospectiva, resulta irónico que el incendio ocurriera cuando ocurrió: el 29 de abril de 1986. Ese día, los planes para la renovación de la Biblioteca Central original y una nueva ampliación de…
There have been masterfully written entertaining spy novels from Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, John Le Carré, and others. Many works are based on the authors' first-hand experiences working for intelligence agencies, not just their exuberant and fanciful imaginations. However, Ben Macintyre’s well-researched account of the Russian double agent, Oleg Gordievsky...
Zora Neale Hurston is well known for her novels, especially for Their eyes were watching God. Her educational background and training were in cultural anthropology, ethnography and folklore. A prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, this book would not be published in her lifetime because there were quesions about her methodology...
September 24, 2016 was the dedication and opening day for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which included the Sweet Home Cafe.This cookbook has the cafe's recipes, which represent the extensive diaspora of African Americans and encompass culinary traditions from Africa, the Caribbean, Native Americans, Europeans, Latinos...
An appropriate subtitle for this book might be: don’t mess with Maud, all she wants is peace and quiet. Mystery writer Helene Tursten, best known for the Detective Inspector Huss series, was asked to write a short story for Christmas, and so she did: “An Elderly Lady Seeks Peace at Christmastime”.88-year-old...
Antarctica, which contains the South Pole, is a large land mass (5,400,000 square miles) located in the Southern Hemisphere. It is, " ... on average, the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents," and has a limited amount of animal and vegetative life. It...
Downton Abbey enthusiasts will be more than a bit chuffed over the latest book on their favorite PBS television series. They probably will cheer with joy! Not that avid fans need any enticement, but the book is a stunning prelude to next year’s season. In addition there will be another season after...
In this sparkling, joyful family memoir, Gully Wells has created an homage to her mother, the irrepressible Dee Wells, not exactly a rock of stability, but who did create a vacation house that would become a solid lodestone in the lives of her children, grandchildren, husband, lovers, and friends. She...
