In the Fall of 2024, the Teens Leading Change (TLC) program, a partnership between the Robertson and Palms-Rancho Park Branch Libraries, embarked on an ambitious project to address a critical issue…
Kemper Donovan is the host of the All About Agatha podcast. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, he worked at the literary management company Circle of Confusion for a decade…
2025 has seen an immense surge of interest in digital currency, specifically cryptocurrency. We are still far away from the widespread adoption of this new type of money. While some view it as a risky…
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…
Chris Nichols is a longtime preservationist and senior editor at Los Angeles magazine. For many years, he worked with the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee, serving a term as chairman of the…
Hello from the Platt Branch Library, where we are working on a Teens Leading Change project exploring cultural diversity in our community. We selected this topic because we are committed to addressing…
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
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
Charmaine Wilkerson is the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, which was named a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick and adapted as a Hulu streaming series by Oprah Winfrey and Kapital…
The very best in literature, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults was announced at the American Library Association’s 2025 Youth Media Awards on January 27, 2025.These…
As soon as the Rumford Fair Housing Act went into effect on September 20, 1963, both the law and the State Fair Employment Practices Commission, SFEPC, the agency tasked with enforcing it, came under…
Mallory O’Meara is the bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon, which won the 2019 SCIBA award for Biography and the 2019 Rondo award for Book of the Year, Girly Drinks, which won a 2022…
The fight for racial equality has been fought on many fronts: education, public transportation, and accommodations. But one of the most contentious and, in many ways, still unresolved is the fight to…
The Academy Awards are right around the corner, and, once again, films adapted from books have snagged multiple nominations! From a larger than life musical to a thrilling tale of papal election…
Edward Underhill grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he could not walk to anything, so he had to make up his own adventures. He studied music in college, spent several years living in very…
Sometimes, the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day is by curling up on the couch for a movie marathon. But how do you create your Valentine's Day watch list? While classics are classics for a…
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…
Hache Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in The Magazine of…
In the Fall of 2024, the teen volunteers from Robertson and Palms-Rancho Park Branch Libraries partnered in the Teens Leading Change (TLC) program to explore the subject of Financial Literacy for…
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
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
There are markers in life that define us. Sometimes, we realize their meaning years later, and sometimes, immediately. For those living in the Los Angeles basin on January 7, 2025, "the fires" will be…
Fifty years ago this month in 1975, the Altair 8800, one of the first commercially available personal computers, was released in kit form. With 256 bytes of memory and a sticker price of $439.00, it…
January 29 is National Puzzle Day!This got me thinking about the history of jigsaw puzzles: when were they invented, what is a jigsaw, and any other nerdy things I could research. Here are some fun…
