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…
In 2020, during those early weeks of COVID lock-down, when we were not allowed into our Los Angeles Public Libraries, and the present and the future were beyond comprehension, it was good to have some personally owned books at home. There were two series that I turned to. One was...
This is the first cookbook devoted entirely to celebrating the significance of Juneteenth. “The title combines a native-born African fruit–watermelon–with the African American and Native American adage that red birds flying in sight are ancestors returning to spread beautiful luck.” Writer and scholar Nicole A. Taylor states, “This is my...
Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous, and infamous, internationally known artists. His artistic style ranges from representational to pushing boundaries all over the place. Not only in his visual work has he stretched and pushed, but in his thoughts, ideas and comments about his native country and its...
Writer Sosuke Natsukawa has taken what might appear to be rather mundane characters and created a unique novel that has many twists and turns. A high school student (Rintaro Natsuki), who is lacking purpose or direction in life, and whose grandfather peacefully dies in his sleep leaving his independently owned bookstore...
This debut novel is a stunner, historical fiction at its best (captivating, illuminating and provoking) in its depiction and portrayal of the horrors of racism, discrimination, abuse and greed. The inspiration for the novel was happenstance, as recalled by Jenny Zhang, “In 2014, my father returned from a work trip through...
In a previous review about a poetry book, I wrote:"Poetry is the most intense and concentrated form of writing, using words, metre, rhyme and format to express thoughts, feelings and ideas that can be fact or fiction. It gets at the marrow of truth and truth-telling using words to create an...
Writer Valérie Perrin portrays her main character, Violette Toussaint, as someone who has found her true calling in life. She is the caretaker of a cemetery in a small town in France, where she makes the arrangements for funerals and religious services for the deceased and their family. Among the many...
There are three major "firsts" in Angela Merkel’s lifetime of public service. She was the first female Chancellor of Germany. She was the first leader of Germany with a doctorate in quantum chemistry who had done extensive research in the field of quantum theoretical chemistry. She was the first Chancellor...
In this extensively researched biography, which involved interviews with family, band members, other musicians, friends, managers and others, Daniel De Visé has written a biography about one of the all-time great musicians, B.B. King. It is more than a biography of one man, his art and his calling, it is a...
During the summer of 1964, at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Fannie Lou Hamer brought her voice of discontent about political injustice within the Democratic Party. She was asking for mandatory integrated state delegations, and spoke passionately and eloquently about voter suppression, discrimination and violence leveled at...
