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630 W. 5th StreetLos Angeles, CA 90071
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(213) 228-7000
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(213) 228-7069
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- Librarian:
- Giovanna Mannino, Director
Upcoming Events at Central Library
June 19, 2013 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Find out how delicious reading can be as we read and discuss your favorite (and soon-to-be-favorite) books!
June 19, 2013 5:00PM to 6:30PM
Practice English with others in our new Maestro en Casa English Conversation Classes! ...
June 20, 2013 2:00PM
The class features an introduction to Windows basics. Familiarity with keyboard and mouse and/or Computer Comfort class are highly...
June 20, 2013 2:00PM
Read and review the newest comics & manga! Help choose the titles that should be on the 2014 Great Graphic Novels for Teens...
June 20, 2013 3:00PM to 5:00PM
Books come alive for kids when they share the fun of reading with STAR library volunteers. Come share a story with Eric! Subject to...
June 20, 2013 4:00PM to 5:00PM
A smorgasbord of stories and crafts for kids ages 5-12.
Ongoing Events
Genealogy Research - There will be a genealogy librarian available to answer in-person questions at the History & Genealogy Dept. Reference Desk, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on most Mondays and Saturdays. Call Central Library at 213-228-7000 to confirm dates.
- Hot Titles:
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Children's
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Fiction Hot Titles
Inferno
And the mountains echoed.
Gone girl : a novel
Life after life : a novel
The hit
Six years
12th of never
The Interestings
Silken prey.
The woman upstairs : a novel
Suspect
The great Gatsby
The Black box.
A delicate truth
The fault in our stars
Dead ever after
Tenth of December : stories
Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
The storyteller : a novel
The Burgess boys : a novel
Whiskey Beach
The dinner : a novel
Alex Cross, run
The flamethrowers : a novel
The light between oceans : a novel
Catching fire
Wedding night : a novel
Best kept secret
Unintended consequences
Beautiful ruins : a novel
Daddy's gone a hunting
Little green : an Easy Rawlins mystery
Don't go
The racketeer
Mockingjay
Me before you
The Hunger Games
Guilt : an Alex Delaware novel
A week in winter
The English girl : a novel.
Fifty shades of Grey
Maya's Notebook.
The casual vacancy
The silver star : a novel
The 5th Wave
Second honeymoon.
The mark of Athena
Flight behavior : a novel
Dark places
The round house
Non-Fiction Hot Titles
Let's explore diabetes with owls
Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead
Going clear : scientology, hollywood, and the prison of belief
My beloved world
Cooked : a natural history of transformation
The unwinding : an inner history of the new America
Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal
Eleven rings : the soul of success
Wheat belly : lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health
Proof of Heaven : a neurosurgeon's near death experience and journey into the afterlife
Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us
Daring greatly : how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
It's all good : delicious, easy recipes that will make you look good and feel great
The signal and the noise : why so many predictions fail--but some don't
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Unsinkable
Vb6 : eat vegan before 6:00 P. M. to lose weight and restore your health ... for good
Behind the beautiful forevers
Life code : the new rules for winning in the real world
Waiting to be heard : a memoir
Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity
Wheat belly cookbook : 150 recipes to lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health
How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character
Country girl : a memoir
Grace : a memoir
The guns at last light : the war in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Everything is perfect when you're a liar
The Virgin diet : drop 7 foods, lose 7 pounds, just 7 days
The soundtrack of my life
Heads in beds : a reckless memoir of hotels, hustles, and so-called hospitality
Clean gut : the breakthrough plan for eliminating the root cause of disease and revolutionizing your health
Rita Moreno : a memoir
Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Dirty wars : the world is a battlefield
The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?
The Friedkin connection: the movies that made my life
The $100 startup : reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future
The end of your life book club
The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth
Attempting normal
The outsider : a memoir
Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot
The cooked seed : a memoir
My way : an autobiography
The gifts of imperfection : let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are
Bossypants
Thinking, fast and slow
The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business
After visiting friends : a son's story
Beyond belief : my secret life inside scientology and my harrowing escape
Children's Hot Titles
Babymouse
Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days
Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
Stallion by starlight
Tales from a not-so-talented pop star
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Tales from a not-so-smart Miss Know-It-All
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Tales from a not-so-graceful ice princess
A perfect time for pandas
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
The red pyramid
Emeraldalicious
Wonder
The throne of fire
Big Nate goes for broke
The one and only Ivan
Big Nate : what could possibly go wrong?
The serpent's shadow
Sleep like a tiger
Day of doom
Maniac Magee : a novel
That is not a good idea!
Creepy carrots!
Wonderstruck
The strange case of Origami Yoda
Pete the Cat : I love my white shoes
When you reach me
Earthquake in the early morning
Son
Extra yarn
Fyre
The sun trail
The Kingdom of Fantasy
Gregor the Overlander
If the shoe fits
Dork diaries. Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker
The great cake mystery : Precious Ramotswe's very first case
The burning bridge
Forest of secrets
Out of my mind
The darkest hour
Rising storm
Theodore Boone : the activist
Recent Blog Posts from Central Library Blog
June 18, 2013
By Galina Stoyanova , Librarian
Take a look at the randomly selected titles above – did you know how diverse our paper holdings are? After all budget cuts and loss of many titles, after having more and more periodicals... Continued
June 17, 2013
By David Kelly, Senior Librarian
Central Library Blog Bloggers:
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Senior Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department
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Senior Librarian, Photo Collection
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Librarian, Children's Literature Department
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Librarian, Central Library
Librarian, Business Department
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