Benjamin Franklin Branch Library

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

Hours of Service

Mon:	Closed
Tues:	Closed
Weds:	Closed
Thurs:	Closed
Fri:	Closed
Sat:	Closed
Sun:	Closed

Closed for maintenance.

Branch is not accepting returns, bookdrop unavailable.

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What We're Reading

Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond

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The Picture Bride

Yi, Kŭm-i

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Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

Michalski, Liz

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Only a Monster

Len, Vanessa

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Acts of Violet

Montimore, Margarita

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The Monster of Elendhaven

Giesbrecht, Jennifer

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Hawk Mountain: A Novel

Habib, Conner

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Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands

Hernández, Kelly Lytle

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Mi cocina : recipes and rapture from my kitchen in México

Martínez, Rick (Chef)

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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

Molina, Natalia

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The Extraordinaries

Klune, TJ

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A prayer for the crown-shy

Chambers, Becky

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The Kaiju Preservation Society

Scalzi, John, 1969-

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Cooking with the two fat ladies

Paterson, Jennifer.

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The Children on the Hill

McMahon, Jennifer

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What We're Reading

Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond

The Picture Bride

Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

Only a Monster

Acts of Violet

The Monster of Elendhaven

Hawk Mountain: A Novel

Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands

Mi cocina : recipes and rapture from my kitchen in México

A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

The Extraordinaries

A prayer for the crown-shy

The Kaiju Preservation Society

Cooking with the two fat ladies

The Children on the Hill

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