Central Library
- Address:
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630 W. 5th StreetLos Angeles, CA 90071
- Phone:
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(213) 228-7000
- Fax:
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(213) 228-7069
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- Contact form
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:
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- Children's
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Fiction Hot Titles
Gone girl : a novel
Life after life : a novel
Six years
The Black box.
Suspect
Tenth of December : stories
The Interestings
Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
The Burgess boys : a novel
The storyteller : a novel
The racketeer
The dinner : a novel
Inferno
The fault in our stars
Alex Cross, run
The hit
12th of never
Whiskey Beach
Beautiful ruins : a novel
The great Gatsby
Fifty shades of Grey
Guilt : an Alex Delaware novel
A week in winter
Unintended consequences
Daddy's gone a hunting
Catching fire
Don't go
The casual vacancy
The light between oceans : a novel
The woman upstairs : a novel
This is how you lose her
Sweet tooth : a novel
Private Berlin
The round house
The Hunger Games
And the mountains echoed.
Fifty shades darker
The mark of Athena
Flight behavior : a novel
Calculated in death
Leaving everything most loved : a novel
Mockingjay
The flamethrowers : a novel
The twelve tribes of Hattie
The Middlesteins
Notorious nineteen a Stephanie Plum novel
Me before you
Silken prey.
Mary Coin
The fifth assassin
Non-Fiction Hot Titles
Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead
Going clear : scientology, hollywood, and the prison of belief
My beloved world
Let's explore diabetes with owls
Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal
Cooked : a natural history of transformation
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us
Proof of Heaven : a neurosurgeon's near death experience and journey into the afterlife
Unsinkable
Wheat belly : lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health
The signal and the noise : why so many predictions fail--but some don't
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
Behind the beautiful forevers
Grace : a memoir
Steve Jobs
How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character
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
Life code : the new rules for winning in the real world
Everything is perfect when you're a liar
Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot
Heads in beds : a reckless memoir of hotels, hustles, and so-called hospitality
The end of your life book club
The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?
The soundtrack of my life
The Virgin diet : drop 7 foods, lose 7 pounds, just 7 days
After visiting friends : a son's story
World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war
My way : an autobiography
Beyond belief : my secret life inside scientology and my harrowing escape
The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth
The fast metabolism diet : eat more food & lose more weight
Waiting to be heard : a memoir
Wave
The $100 startup : reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future
The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business
Bossypants
People who eat darkness : the true story of a young woman who vanished from the streets of Tokyo and the evil that swallowed her up
Rita Moreno : a memoir
The Friedkin connection: the movies that made my life
Thomas Jefferson : the art of power
Super brain : unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness, and spiritual well-being
To sell is human : the surprising truth about moving others
Help, thanks, wow : the three essential prayers
Vb6 : eat vegan before 6:00 P. M. to lose weight and restore your health ... for good
Country girl : a memoir
The 48 laws of power
Children's Hot Titles
Babymouse
Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days
Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
Pokémon adventures
Captain Underpants and the revolting revenge of the radioactive robo-boxers : the tenth epic novel
Dork diaries : tales from a not-so-fabulous life
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Tales from a not-so-smart Miss Know-It-All
The throne of fire
Big Nate flips out
Tales from a not-so-popular party girl
Day of doom
Big Nate makes the grade
Emeraldalicious
Stallion by starlight
A perfect time for pandas
The one and only Ivan
This is not my hat
The red pyramid
Big Nate goes for broke
The serpent's shadow
Wonder
Big Nate : what could possibly go wrong?
Creepy carrots!
Sleep like a tiger
Fly Guy meets Fly Girl!
Big Nate : all work and no play : a collection of Sundays
Once upon a crime
The medusa plot
The EARTH book
Pete the Cat : I love my white shoes
Shatterproof
Hatchet
Extra yarn
Trust no one
When you reach me
The Kingdom of Fantasy
Mrs. Noodlekugel
Fire and ice
Chasing the prophecy
The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The burning bridge
Timmy Failure. Mistakes were made
Into the wild
The enchantress
Out of my mind
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