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Multilingual Collections, Librarian, December 13, 2025

Description: El mejor regalo que puedes ofrecer durante las festividades de invierno es un libro. Si necesitas ideas sobre qué libros regalar (o regalarte a ti mismo), aquí te presentamos los títulos preferidos por nuestros lectores y bibliotecarios en el 2025.

Y si tu resolución para fin de año es leer más, te recomendamos que agregues estos libros a tu lista de lecturas pendientes....

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Author Lexis-Olivier Ray

Interview with a Zine Maker: Lexis-Olivier Ray

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Lexis-Olivier Ray is a multimedia journalist, filmmaker, zine maker, and artist currently based in Los Angeles. In the past year, he has created content for KCET, L.A. Taco, Road Trippers, Leafly, Atlas Obscura, and Hyper Allergic.


Collage of films adapted from classic books

Read it First: Classic Literature on Film

Elizabeth Graney, Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department, Monday, August 3, 2020

From the time we first learn to read, we are steered towards “the classics.” FromThe Velveteen Rabbit to War and Peace, these novels are touted as enlightening, world expanding, and, sometimes, enjoyable reads. But what, exactly, is a “classic” novel?


Author Carrie Vaughn and her latest book, Ghosts of Sherwood

Interview With an Author: Carrie Vaughn

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, July 30, 2020

Carrie Vaughn is best known for her New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged.


Collage of books about children's authors

Adults Only: Biographies of Children’s Authors

Sheryn Morris, Librarian, Literature & Fiction, Wednesday, July 29, 2020

It is a good thing that the lives of children’s authors are not always reflected in the books they wrote. Some of the most enduring and well-loved of these books were written by people whose lives were not sugar and spice.


Eunsoo Jeong and her current zine

Interview with a Zine Maker: Eunsoo Jeong

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Eunsoo Jeong is an artist, color designer, illustrator, animator living in Los Angeles. Koreangry is a comic/zine series based on her daily struggle as a Korean-American immigrant woman.


English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, Rosalind Elsie Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

Jack Stephens, Librarian, Science, Technology & Patents Department, Friday, July 24, 2020

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was foundational to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, for which three male colleagues at King's College London won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.


Author TJ Kline and his book, The Extraordinaries

Interview With an Author: TJ Klune

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, July 23, 2020

TJ Klune is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company.


Collage of zines

Celebrate International Zine Library Day

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Independent, non-commercial, and often handmade magazines have been around long before 2011 when Alex Wrekk designated July as International Zine Month. A well-known zinester, Wrekk, also specified July 21 as International Zine Library Day.


Author Gretchen Berg and her first novel, The Operator

Interview With an Author: Gretchen Berg

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Gretchen Berg was born on the East Coast, raised in the Midwest, and spent a number of years in the Pacific Northwest. She has taught English in South Korea and in Northern Iraq and has traveled to all the other continents. A graduate of Iowa State University, she lives in Chicago, Illinois.


Author Grady Hendrix and his latest book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

Interview With an Author: Grady Hendrix

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, July 16, 2020

Award-winning author Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, covered terrible movie novelizations and ninja death swarms for outlets ranging from Slate to the British Film Institute, and scripted award shows for Chinese television.


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