Benjamin Franklin Branch Library

Address:: 2200 E. 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Phone:: 323-263-6901
Email:: Contact form
Librarian:: Connie Topete, Senior Librarian

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What We Are Reading

Upright Women Wanted

Gailey, Sarah

Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow (maneating hippo mayhem!) and last year’s excellent Magic F

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Disturbance: surviving Charlie Hebdo

Lançon, Philippe

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Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child

Cumming, Laura

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Oona Out of Order

Montimore, Margarita

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Didion, Joan.

The Scheherazade of the essay, as she lures you in with that first sentence, and then takes you places never imagined.

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The beneficiary : fortune, misfortune, and the story of my father

Scott, Janny

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Heart of Junk

Geddes, Luke

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News of the world : a novel

Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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The big goodbye : Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood

Wasson, Sam

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The future of another timeline

Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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What We Are Reading

Upright Women Wanted

Disturbance: surviving Charlie Hebdo

Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child

Oona Out of Order

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

The beneficiary : fortune, misfortune, and the story of my father

Heart of Junk

News of the world : a novel

The big goodbye : Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood

The future of another timeline

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