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…
For many years Sue Stuart-Smith regarded gardening as a form of “outdoor housework.” It was the life of the mind that she sought, and states, “ … I would no more have plucked a weed than baked a scone or washed the curtains.” She knew that gardening was a part...
Kaouther Adimi has based this historical novel on Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), a famous Algerian bookstore, which was a publishing house and a lending library. In 1935 Edmond Charlot established the store in the city of Algiers, with the motto “by the young, for the young.” The store...
Who is that woman on the cover of the book? A holdover, punk rock fashion designer? The appearance, clothes and art are by design, but her name is not. For over 50 years, Dame Zandra Rhodes has been actively designing textiles, clothes and anything else that she has the creative...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “globalization” is not that old a word and refers to:“The action, process, or fact of making global; esp. (in later use) the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale, widely considered to...
Fashion journalist André Leon Talley’s autobiography could not be more prescient, and not just for fashion followers. Written before the pandemic and recent protest movements, the four and a half page introduction validates the concerns and issues which are playing out on the streets of the world: “For so long I...
On January 7, 2015, two gunmen forced their way into the Paris offices of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The newspaper was known for its criticism of individuals, organizations, governments and countries. The staff were egalitarian about whom and what they stridently...
During this century, Joan Didion has become somewhat better known for personal tragedies, which she wrote about in The Year of Magical Thinking. When it was published, I could not finish reading it, and still have not. Long ago, in the last century, the first book of hers that I...
This biography of a woman and a wine, takes place in the early 1800s, in France, at a time when women did not conduct business, let alone take over their husband's business. However Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin was no oridnary woman. She had witnessed the French Revolution, lived through the Napoleonic Wars...
These conversations with master historians were the result of a “spur of the moment” idea that came to philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, who is a major supporter of The Library of Congress and The National Book Festival, as well as supporting other projects which preserve our national heritage. This would...
Anthony Bourdain was a charmer, armed with wit and brilliance, and a mischievous smile, and probably broke many female hearts with his passion for everything in life. On television, his walk was a joy to watch, with long arms and legs striding along, venturing forth to get somewhere, to see, to...
