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501 S. Venice BoulevardVenice, CA 90291
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310-821-1769
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310-306-9124
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- Librarian:
- Rachel Bindman, Senior Librarian
Upcoming Events at Venice - Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library
Every Wednesday at 12:30pm.
Bring a mat & get ready to breathe, stretch & more. Open to all levels!.
June 5, 2017 10:15AM
Join us in a gentle yet deeply healing class where we will calm and clear the mind by working intelligently with the breath, mudras (hand-...
June 6, 2017 7:00PM
Want to reduce stress? Join Henry Schipper, a graduate of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, in a guided session that will refresh...
Every Wednesday at 12:30pm.
Bring a mat & get ready to breathe, stretch & more. Open to all levels!.
June 10, 2017 11:00AM
Kick off Summer “Reading by Design” by making our Lego challenge. For the younger set we will have trains and duplos. Learn how to...
Ongoing Events
Student/Homework Zone
The library offers dedicated space, computers, iPads, homework resources and a trained Computer Aide to assist students grade 4-12. Monday through Friday starting at 2:30pm. Free Printing
STARS
Storytelling And Reading (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays): Trained volunteers read to children of all ages in the Children’s Area. Call or visit the branch for specific times.
- Hot Titles:
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- YA
- Children's
Fiction Hot Titles
The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel
A gentleman in Moscow
Lincoln in the bardo : a novel
The black book
The fix.
The late show.
The underground railroad : a novel
The handmaid's tale
Vicious circle : a Joe Pickett novel
Camino Island.
A man called Ove : a novel
Moonglow : a novel
Commonwealth.
One perfect lie
Into the water.
The girl before : a novel
The wrong side of goodbye : a novel
16th seduction
Big little lies
Golden prey.
Exit west : a novel
In this grave hour : a novel
The whistler : a novel
Heartbreak hotel : an Alex Delaware novel
Difficult women
Anything is possible
Small great things : a novel
American war : a novel
The women in the castle : a novel
The woman in cabin 10
The idiot
Dangerous games : a novel
My not so perfect life : a novel
Never never
Mississippi blood : a novel
Man overboard
All by myself, alone : a novel
All the light we cannot see : a novel
Six four
The couple next door
Swing time
No man's land
Night school : a Jack Reacher novel
The lost order
Echoes in death
The circle
Bone box : a Decker/Lazarus novel
The sympathizer
All grown up.
Earthly remains
Non-Fiction Hot Titles
Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
Option B : facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy
The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Tools of titans : the tactics, routines, and habits of billionaires, icons, and world-class performers
The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
The zookeeper's wife : a war story
Norse mythology
Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
This fight is our fight : the battle to save America's middle class
The rules do not apply : a memoir
Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House
Scrappy little nobody
Nevertheless : a memoir
South and West : from a notebook
Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow
The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Unshakeable : your financial freedom playbook
The secrets of my life
The Princess Diarist.
When breath becomes air
Milk and honey
The book of joy : lasting happiness in a changing world
The little book of hygge : Danish secrets to happy living
Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
Head strong : the bulletproof plan to activate untapped brain energy to work smarter and think faster-in just two weeks
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
Between the world and me
Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the Moon to Mars
Shoe dog : a memoir by the creator of Nike
On tyranny : twenty lessons from the twentieth century
Blitzed : drugs in the Third Reich
You are a bad ass : how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life
Old school : life in the sane lane
Born to run
Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right
The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the North Pond hermit
The great British bake off : perfect cakes and bakes to make at home
The most beautiful : my life with Prince
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Word by word : the secret life of dictionaries
The empath's survival guide : life strategies for sensitive people
No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America
Letterman : the last giant of late night
Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus
YA Hot Titles
Thirteen reasons why
The hate u give.
The dark prophecy (The trials of Apollo, book 2)
Everything, everything
Thirteen reasons why
The son of Neptune
The Titan's curse
The sea of monsters
The mark of Athena
The lost hero
The last Olympian
The battle of the Labyrinth
A court of wings and ruin
The House of Hades
The blood of Olympus
The hidden oracle
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 1 : the sword of summer.
The Hammer of Thor
King's cage
Lord of shadows
Before I fall
The Sun is also a star
Insurgent
Glass sword.
Red queen
Always and forever, Lara Jean
Six of crows
A court of thorns and roses
Crazy messy beautiful
Fablehaven
Alex and Eliza : a love story
Holes
Fallen
Lost in a book
Strange the Dreamer.
Rise of the Evening Star
Geekerella : a novel
The upside of unrequited
Children's Hot Titles
Babymouse
Pokémon adventures
Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days
Diary of a wimpy kid : double down
Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
Diary of a wimpy kid : old school
Diary of a wimpy kid : the long haul
Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
Diary of a wimpy kid : hard luck
Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
Pokemon XY
![Pokemon adventures. story, Hidenori Kusaka ; art, Satoshi Yamamoto ; [translation, Katherine Schilling]. Diamond and Pearl/Platinum](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2014/4e2437fe985e12fb0aa5daec7a135cd1.jpg?itok=Vw2Zdjim)
Pokemon adventures. story, Hidenori Kusaka ; art, Satoshi Yamamoto ; [translation, Katherine Schilling]. Diamond and Pearl/Platinum
Dork diaries 7. by Rachel Renée Russell. Tales from a not-so-glam TV star
Green eggs and ham
Dork diaries 11. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-friendly frenemy
Tales from a not-so-popular party girl
Dork diaries : tales from a not-so-fabulous life
![Dog Man. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Garibaldi. [1]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2016/fad4fd21fefbea32b1258c59eacdbfe2.jpg?itok=SGDcK7z6)
Dog Man. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Garibaldi. [1]
My little pony. Friendship is magic
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
The cat in the hat
Dork diaries 9. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-dorky drama queen
![Dog Man unleashed. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with interior color by Jose Garibaldi. [2]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2017/ff4d5a8315895f9aaaf4a55025e681c9.jpg?itok=2_v9gX2f)
Dog Man unleashed. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with interior color by Jose Garibaldi. [2]
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Tales from a not-so-smart Miss Know-It-All
Tales from a not-so-graceful ice princess
The thank you book
Dork diaries 8. Rachel Renée Russell with Nikki Russell and Erin Russell. Tales from a not-so-happily ever after
Are you my mother?
Tales from a not-so-talented pop star
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Pokémon black and white
Hop on Pop
Wonder
Harry Potter and the cursed child : parts one and two. a new play by Jack Thorne ; based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling ; John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, writers. The official script book of the
Dork diaries 10. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-perfect pet sitter
Dork diaries. Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker
I am invited to a party!
Captain Underpants and the sensational saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot : the twelfth epic novel
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
Captain Underpants and the terrifying return of Tippy Tinkletrousers : the ninth epic novel
Esperanza rising
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
The pigeon needs a bath!
The girl who drank the moon
Amulet. 2, Kazu Kibuishi. The stonekeeper's curse
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