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  • Author Stuart Turton and his latest novel, The Last Murder at the End of the World

    Interview With an Author: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton is the best selling author of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil in the Dark Water. His books have won numerous awards and been translated into thirty-seven languages…

    • Date: June 13, 2024
    • Daryl M.
  • Octavia E. Butler

    Octavia E. Butler: Her Legacy Lives On

    "People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back."—The Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler's dystopian science fiction classic, Parable of the Sower…

    • Date: June 12, 2024
    • Lauren Kratz
    • Octavia E. Butler
    • Labs
  • Four teen volunteers hold up their certificates next to librarian

    Teens Leading Change: Teens Recycling for Change

    Throughout my childhood, I have always been invested in trying to find a way to help the earth and renourish our universal home. When I found out about the Teens Leading Change program, I was able to…

    • Date: June 12, 2024
    • Guest Blogger
    • Teens
    • Teens Leading Change
  • collage of lax photos

    La historia de Los Ángeles: El Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles / The History of Los Angeles: Los Angeles International Airport

    Introduction / IntroducciónLos Angeles is a place where history is all around us, made by people from around the world. LAX is an integral part of the history of Los Angeles and the role that aviation…

    • Date: June 11, 2024
    • Nicholas Clayton
  • Three films adapted from books

    Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month

    If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't…

    • Date: June 10, 2024
    • Elizabeth Graney
  • Collage of Prince album covers

    Born June 7: Prince

    Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis. In the 1980s, Prince became one of the greatest pop stars of all time, selling some 150 million albums, recording scores of incomparable…

    • Date: June 7, 2024
    • Daniel Tures
  • Author Juli Min and her first novel, Shanghailanders

    Interview With an Author: Juli Min

    Juli Min is a writer and editor based in Shanghai. She studied Russian and comparative literature at Harvard University, and she holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson. She was the founding editor…

    • Date: June 6, 2024
    • Daryl M.
  • Collage of View Park history

    View Park: The Black Beverly Hills

    Ideally situated in the Baldwin Hills with panoramic views of downtown Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains, View Park boasts a distinctive mix of Spanish, colonial, Tudor, and ranch-style homes…

    • Date: June 5, 2024
    • Kelly Wallace
    • African American History Month
    • Juneteenth
  • Collage of various promotional brochures, workshops, and art created at The Woman's Building

    Looking at Art: Woman's Building

    In 1970, "Art and Technology," a group exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), had no women artists included. As a reaction to this, the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists…

    • Date: June 4, 2024
    • Art Department
  • Los libros en español más esperados están disponibles en tu biblioteca

    Lo nuevo en español para niños: libros interesantes que llegan a la biblioteca este mes

    La Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles ofrece los libros más leídos y más esperados para niños. Haz clic en cada título para verlo en nuestro catálogo. ¡No esperes y reserva tu copia hoy mismo! Infantil

    • Date: June 3, 2024
    • Patricia Valdovinos
    • En español
  • Los libros en español más esperados están disponibles en tu biblioteca

    Lo nuevo en español para adultos y jóvenes: libros interesantes que llegan a la biblioteca este mes

    Los libros en español más esperados están disponibles en tu biblioteca. Haz clic en cada título para verlo en nuestro catálogo. ¡No esperes y reserva tu copia hoy mismo! Adultos Jóvenes

    • Date: June 3, 2024
    • Multilingual Collections
    • En español
  • Author Sara Nisha Adams and her latest novel, The Twilight Garden

    Interview With an Author: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams is a writer and editor. She lives in London and was born in Hertfordshire to Indian-Kenyan and English parents. Her first novel was The Reading List. Her latest novel is The Twilight…

    • Date: May 30, 2024
    • Daryl M.
  • teen girl hands clasped looking up in thought

    Teens Leading Change: Empowering Teens

    The teenagers of the Westwood Teens Leading Change (TLC) are a passionate group of middle and high school students dedicated to making a difference by empowering teenagers to take the lead in creating…

    • Date: May 29, 2024
    • Guest Blogger
    • Teens
    • Teens Leading Change
  • collage of Star Wars book and movie premier

    Star Wars Galaxy: These Are the Books You're Looking For

    Still can't get enough of Star Wars? May the 4th beckoning you back? Well, then, immerse yourself in a galaxy far, far away with these Star Wars fiction series. Now, including all titles through May…

    • Date: May 25, 2024
    • Elizabeth Graney
    • Star Wars
  • Star Wars logo type and blue and red lightsabers

    May the Force be With You

    In the galaxy of entertainment, few events rival the impact of May 25th, 1977. It marked the birth of an intergalactic saga that would captivate hearts and minds across the cosmos. As the Star…

    • Date: May 24, 2024
    • Salvadora Sosa Prieto
    • Star Wars
    • Science Fiction
  • Authors: John Shen Yen Nee & SJ Rozan

    Interview With an Author: John Shen Yen Nee & SJ Rozan

    John Shen Yen Nee is a half-Chinese, half Scottish American media executive, producer and entrepreneur who was born in Knoxville, grew up in San Diego and is now based in Los Angeles, with a penchant…

    • Date: May 23, 2024
    • Daryl M.
  • Sample pages from VVV, 246 Little Clouds, The Four Suits, and Every Building on the Sunset Strip

    Looking at Art: Modern Multiples

    In this installment of book treasures in our Special Collections, we will be looking at broadly distributed multiples: materials that are expressive with experimentation similar in energy to a modern…

    • Date: May 22, 2024
    • Art Department
  • New Year lion in New Chinatown

    Harry Quillen’s Chinatown

    Photographer Harry Quillen loved the circus, and during the 1940s, he enthusiastically captured the light-hearted spirit of the traveling show with his large format camera. After his death in 1972…

    • Date: May 20, 2024
    • Wendy Horowitz
    • Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
    • Tessa
  • Phoenix Bakery in early 1940s Central Plaza, current Phoenix outdoor sign and menu cover with Sing Song

    A Slice of Chinatown Life: Phoenix Bakery and the Strawberry Whipped Cream Cake

    Long-time visitors of Chinatown will be very familiar with the storefront with Sing Song, a Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) drawn logo of a bashful little boy in a traditional Chinese haircut with a robe…

    • Date: May 17, 2024
    • Vi Thục Hà
    • Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
  • Author Douglas Westerbeke and his latest book, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    Interview With an Author: Douglas Westerbek

    Douglas Westerbeke is a librarian who lives in Ohio and works at one of the largest libraries in the US. He has spent the last decade on the local panel of the International Dublin Literary Award…

    • Date: May 16, 2024
    • Daryl M.
  • Advertisement from the Los Angeles City Directory, 1918, LAPL City and Street Directories Collection

    Looking at Art: The Art of Advertising in Vintage California Business Directories

    Vintage city directories contained alphabetized lists of the names of residents and their street addresses (if they existed). Additional information could include their occupation, spouse, property…

    • Date: May 15, 2024
    • Maya Peterpaul
  • Dr. Leana Wen and her book, Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

    Interview With AAPI Author Dr. Leana Wen

    Dr. Leana Wen (pronounced Lee-nah) is an emergency physician and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is a columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a twice-weekly…

    • Date: May 13, 2024
    • Journey
    • Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
  • Collage of films and their adapted books

    Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month

    If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't…

    • Date: May 10, 2024
    • Elizabeth Graney
  • Colorize photo of French author Pierre Boulle and his science fiction book, Planet of the Apes

    The Amazing Legacy of Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes

    In the farthest reaches of space, a group of star travelers finds a message in a bottle that contains the record of another spaceship’s doomed voyage to a planet where apes are masters and humans are…

    • Date: May 9, 2024
    • John Tommasino
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