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- Jennifer Noble, Senior Librarian
The Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society designated the Wilshire Branch as a Historic Landmark - 1999 Historic Landmark Award #66. The collection highlights Korean and Spanish Films and contains a good selection of other foreign language films. Refer to the branch history section for more information concerning the library’s unique history.
Upcoming Events at Wilshire Branch Library
October 16, 2018 4:00PM to 6:00PM
Congressman Jimmy Gomez's staff will hold Community Office Hours at the library to answer any questions concerning Social Security benefits...
October 17, 2018 2:30PM
LADOT is at the Wilshire Library to answer your questions about using the DASH and to enable you to place value on your TAP cards....
October 18, 2018 3:00PM
All toddlers and pre-schoolers are welcome to join us for stories at the library. We will have different picture books to share and songs...
October 20, 2018 10:00AM
The International Rescue Committee, in association with Los Angeles Public Library, invites you to join us for free citizenship and...
October 20, 2018 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Get in the Halloween spirit with our free screening of Monsters, Inc. Rated G. All ages welcome.
October 22, 2018 6:00PM
Need a nice, calming activity with your baby before bedtime? Pop in to the library with your child for boardbooks and songs. This activity...
October 23, 2018 6:30PM
Do you love graphic novels? Does your family get tired of having to talk about Batman AGAIN? Do you really want someone else to geek out...
October 24, 2018 4:00PM
Did you know that you can download e-books, e-audiobooks, magazines, graphic novels, music albums and more? The library has a wealth of...
October 25, 2018 3:00PM
All toddlers and pre-schoolers are welcome to join us for stories at the library. We will have different picture books to share and songs...
Ongoing Events
Student Zone
Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Students (grades 1 to 12) may sign in to use the provided tables, supplies, computers and resources to work on school related activities. Printing is free for homework assignments. Students may bring their own laptops or portable devices to use in the Student
Zone.
- Hot Titles:
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- YA
- Children's
Fiction Hot Titles
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Dark sacred night
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Lethal white
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The president is missing : a novel
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The other woman.
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Transcription
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Less : a novel
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Clock dance
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine : a novel
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There there
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China rich girlfriend : a novel
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My year of rest and relaxation
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French exit : a tragedy of manners
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Pachinko
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The death of Mrs. Westaway
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An American marriage
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Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel
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Circe : a novel
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The woman in the window
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All we ever wanted : a novel
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Warlight
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Rich people problems : a novel
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Lake Success : a novel
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The witch elm : a novel
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The incendiaries
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The perfect couple : a novel
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Feared
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The mars room : a novel
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Texas Ranger
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Pieces of her.
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Give me your hand
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A spark of light : a novel
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Tailspin
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The great alone
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When life gives you lululemons : a novel
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Past tense
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Leverage in death : an Eve Dallas novel
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Something in the water : a novel
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A place for us : a novel
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The fallen
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Nine perfect strangers
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Juror #3
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Where the crawdads sing
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The female persuasion
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Walking shadows
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Cherry : a novel
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The reckoning.
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Spymaster : a thriller
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Holy ghost
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Before We Were Yours: A Novel
Non-Fiction Hot Titles
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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Educated : a memoir
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In pieces : a memoir
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How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
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Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
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Unhinged : an insider's account of the Trump White House
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12 rules for life : an antidote to chaos
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Calypso
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The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
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Girl, wash your face : stop believing the lies about who you are so you can become who you were meant to be
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21 lessons for the 21st century
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Small fry
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Becoming.
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The plant paradox : the hidden dangers in "healthy" foods that cause disease and weight gain
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The Library Book
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The fifth risk
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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
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The soul of America : the battle for our better angels
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Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer
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These truths : a history of the United States
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The mirage factory : illusion, imagination, and the invention of Los Angeles
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Who is Michael Ovitz? : a memoir
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Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
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Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
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I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
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Wasted : tales of a GenX drunk
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White fragility : why it's so hard to talk to white people about racism
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The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
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House of Trump, house of Putin : the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian mafia
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Whiskey in a teacup : what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
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Good and mad : the revolutionary power of women's anger
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Leadership in turbulent times
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The Browns of California : the family dynasty that transformed a state and shaped a nation
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
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You're on an airplane : a self-mythologizing memoir
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Educated : a memoir
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Everything Trump touches dies : a Republican strategist gets real about the worst president ever
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A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
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Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
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War on peace : the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence
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Fashion Climbing : A Memoir with Photographs.
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Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
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Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
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The coddling of the American mind : how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
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From the corner of the oval
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Fire and fury : inside the Trump white house
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Every day is extra
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Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world--and why things are better than you think
YA Hot Titles
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The Hate U Give
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To all the boys I've loved before
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Smile
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Drama
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Sisters
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Sabrina
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Always and forever, Lara Jean
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P.S. I still love you.
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Ghosts
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The Hunger Games
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The sea of monsters
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Lumberjanes Vol 1
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The burning maze
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The Titan's curse
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The battle of the Labyrinth
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The last Olympian
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Children of Blood and Bone
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The fault in our stars
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The dark prophecy (The trials of Apollo, book 2)
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The lost hero
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The son of Neptune
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The mark of Athena
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Bridge of clay
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One of us is lying
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The hidden oracle
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Turtles all the way down
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The blood of Olympus
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 1 : the sword of summer.
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I am not your perfect Mexican daughter
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The Ship of the Dead
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Eleanor & Park
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The Hammer of Thor
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Divergent
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Muse of nightmares
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Wildcard
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Everything, everything
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Sadie
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
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Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
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What If It's Us
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War storm
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Demigods & magicians : Percy and Annabeth meet the Kanes.
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Kingdom of ash
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The elite
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If I stay : a novel
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The cruel prince
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Hey, kiddo
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A court of mist and fury
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Scythe
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Stargirl
Children's Hot Titles
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Babymouse
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Diary of a wimpy kid : double down
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Diary of a wimpy kid : hard luck
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Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
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![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]
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Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days
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Diary of a wimpy kid : old school
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
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![Dog Man and Cat Kid. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Garibaldi. [4]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2018/e5b0d9df7292cb6491403241277e1fd9.jpg?itok=oY1NLcRB)
Dog Man and Cat Kid. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Garibaldi. [4]
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the long haul
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Wonder
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![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]
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![Dog Man : a tale of two kitties [#3]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2017/6fb26400f11b3ec06762175841ce40c2.jpg?itok=yWw_3Acp)
Dog Man : a tale of two kitties [#3]
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the getaway
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![Dog Man : lord of the fleas [#5]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2018/a17f61522bc0a04bf5f54c3b99650307.jpg?itok=_jII81ls)
Dog Man : lord of the fleas [#5]
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Pokémon adventures
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Green eggs and ham
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Dork diaries 12. Rachel Renee Russell ; with Nikki Russell and Erin Russell. Tales from a not-so-secret crush catastrophe
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Dork diaries : tales from a not-so-fabulous life
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Tales from a not-so-graceful ice princess
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My little pony. Friendship is magic
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Dork diaries 7. by Rachel Renée Russell. Tales from a not-so-glam TV star
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The cat in the hat
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The thank you book
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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Tales from a not-so-popular party girl
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Dork diaries 8. Rachel Renée Russell with Nikki Russell and Erin Russell. Tales from a not-so-happily ever after
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
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There is a Bird on Your Head!
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Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, part 2 : the revenge of the ridiculous Robo-Boogers : the seventh epic novel
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Dork diaries 11. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-friendly frenemy
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Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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Tales from a not-so-talented pop star
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Are you my mother?
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Captain Underpants and the revolting revenge of the radioactive robo-boxers : the tenth epic novel
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Dork diaries. Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker
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Dork diaries 9. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-dorky drama queen
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Fox in socks
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Captain Underpants and the terrifying return of Tippy Tinkletrousers : the ninth epic novel
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I am invited to a party!
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Elephants cannot dance!
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Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
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