Charmaine Wilkerson is the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, which was named a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick and adapted as a Hulu streaming series by Oprah Winfrey and Kapital…
The very best in literature, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults was announced at the American Library Association’s 2025 Youth Media Awards on January 27, 2025.These…
As soon as the Rumford Fair Housing Act went into effect on September 20, 1963, both the law and the State Fair Employment Practices Commission, SFEPC, the agency tasked with enforcing it, came under…
Mallory O’Meara is the bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon, which won the 2019 SCIBA award for Biography and the 2019 Rondo award for Book of the Year, Girly Drinks, which won a 2022…
The fight for racial equality has been fought on many fronts: education, public transportation, and accommodations. But one of the most contentious and, in many ways, still unresolved is the fight to…
The Academy Awards are right around the corner, and, once again, films adapted from books have snagged multiple nominations! From a larger than life musical to a thrilling tale of papal election…
Edward Underhill grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he could not walk to anything, so he had to make up his own adventures. He studied music in college, spent several years living in very…
Sometimes, the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day is by curling up on the couch for a movie marathon. But how do you create your Valentine's Day watch list? While classics are classics for a…
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't…
Hache Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in The Magazine of…
In the Fall of 2024, the teen volunteers from Robertson and Palms-Rancho Park Branch Libraries partnered in the Teens Leading Change (TLC) program to explore the subject of Financial Literacy for…
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There are markers in life that define us. Sometimes, we realize their meaning years later, and sometimes, immediately. For those living in the Los Angeles basin on January 7, 2025, "the fires" will be…
Fifty years ago this month in 1975, the Altair 8800, one of the first commercially available personal computers, was released in kit form. With 256 bytes of memory and a sticker price of $439.00, it…
January 29 is National Puzzle Day!This got me thinking about the history of jigsaw puzzles: when were they invented, what is a jigsaw, and any other nerdy things I could research. Here are some fun…
January 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to reflect on one of history's darkest chapters and honor the memory of its victims. The United Nations designated this day to coincide…
As I sit here in my hotel room in Burbank, contemplating what has happened, I am filled withoverwhelming sadness. As an Altadena resident but also as a librarian, I am familiar with loss, with burning…
Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, composer, writer, and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow-based band Belle and Sebastian. Since forming in the mid-1990s, the…
January 3 marks the birthday of one of the most beloved and influential authors in literary history: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion…
El 3 de enero marca el nacimiento de uno de los autores más queridos e influyentes en la historia de la literatura: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, el creador de El Hobbit, El Señor de los Anillos y El…
Jess Armstrong is the USA Today best selling author of the Ruby Vaughn Mysteries. Her debut novel, The Curse of Penryth Hall, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel…
Chuck Tingle is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Straight. He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror…
Having a true desire for something is more than wanting to do it all day. It's wanting to advance and commit to it. Sometimes even our most beloved hobbies make us take a moment for ourselves, wipe…
