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  • Children Chatting With Author Alex Aster

    Join the Children Chatting members as they interview award-winning author Alex Aster about her debut book Emblem Island: Curse of the Night Witch and about being an author. "Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion guide."

    June 17, 2021
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  • Episode 12: We Are Not Responsible

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Harryette Mullen’s "We Are Not Responsible".

    June 16, 2021
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  • Episode 11: This Name / His

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads F. Douglas Brown’s "This Name / His".

    June 10, 2021
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  • Children Chatting With Author Amy Hest

    Join the Children Chatting members as they interview award-winning author Amy Hest about her newest book The Summer We Found the Baby and about being an author. "Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion guide."

    June 7, 2021
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  • Episode 10: In the Chapel of St. Mary’s

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Donika Kelly’s "In the Chapel of St. Mary’s".

    June 3, 2021
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  • Children Chatting With Author Minh Lê and Illustrator Andie Tong

    Join the Children Chatting members as they interview award-winning author Minh Lê and artist and illustrator Andie Tong about their graphic novel Green Lantern: Legacy and about being an author and an illustrator."Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion…

    May 28, 2021
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    May 28, 2021
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  • Episode 9: Friendships

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Victoria Chang’s "Friendships."

    May 27, 2021
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  • We Run the Tides: A Novel

    The award-winning author Vendela Vida’s latest work, We Run the Tides, is a suspenseful and poignant story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco. One day, while two teenage best friends are walking to school, they witness a…

    May 26, 2021
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  • Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

    The Library Foundation welcomes the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat for a conversation about his latest masterful work. Daniel James Brown’s new World War II saga, Facing the Mountain, follows a special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe…

    May 20, 2021
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  • Episode 8: Learning to Love America

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s “Learning to Love America”

    May 20, 2021
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  • Episode 7: The Sign Says “Closed for Business”

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Amy Uyematsu’s “The Sign Says `Closed for Business’”

    May 13, 2021
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    May 13, 2021
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  • The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

    Over the last half-century, the American short has changed dramatically. In a new anthology, the best and most representative contemporary authors are celebrated for their thrilling range of voice, form, and talent. Selected by John Freeman, the editor of his own literary annual of new writing and…

    May 11, 2021
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    May 11, 2021
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  • Episode 6: Agent Blue

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Teresa Mei Chuc’s poem “Agent Blue”.

    May 6, 2021
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  • My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption

    “Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better,” writes Bryan Stevenson in the forward of Ian Manuel’s new memoir. At fourteen Manuel was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. The United States is…

    May 5, 2021
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