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AI and Inequality: How Machines Keep Us Poor, Sick, and Discriminated Against

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AI in the Spotlight: Revolutionizing Creativity and Industry in the Arts

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Wandering Stars

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Mind and Machine: Understanding AI’s Impact on Youth Mental Health

5

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

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Alphabetical Diaries

7

The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

8

Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

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To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

10

Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair

11

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

12

First Gen: A Memoir

13

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

14

The Rabbit Hutch

15

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” Héctor Tobar

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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

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Writer/Scholar/Target: Online Harassment and the Threat to Free Expression

18

Surviving Homelessness & Foster Care

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The Power of Trees—Exclusive L.A. Appearance!

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Tiny Beautiful Things From the Page to the Screen

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Sea of Tranquility

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Dust Child

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Finding the Words

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A Guest at the Feast

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How P-22 United Our City: Love Letters to LA’s Favorite Cat

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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice

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An Evening With George Saunders

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Something in Common

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Creators in Residence Showcase

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An Evening with Cody Keenan

31

Dramatizing the Black Experience

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Una noche con Yesika Salgado / An Evening With Yesika Salgado

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Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A Novel

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Cult Classic: A Novel

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Let the Record Show: A Conversation With Sarah Schulman

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The Candy House: A Novel

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How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women

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Evoke LA

39

Secret Identity: A Novel

40

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

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ALOUD Cooks

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The Sentence

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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

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Freeman’s: Change

46

The Book of Form and Emptiness

47

Better not Bitter, Living in Pursuit of Racial Justice

48

Ian Manuel on the Power of Poetry

49

Notes From the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy 

50

Erosion: Essays of Undoing

51

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

52

We Run the Tides: A Novel

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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

55

My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption

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The Committed

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Ongoing Challenges of Disability Discrimination in Law, Politics and Society

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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City

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We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

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Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

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Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters

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This Is Not My Memoir

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Collaboration & Innovation: Mixografia’s Revolutionary Printmaking

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Just Us: An American Conversation

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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

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Media and Our Present Moment

67

The Cost of Inequality

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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

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Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction?

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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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Gish Jen

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NBF Presents: Untold Stories

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Diane Ravitch

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Carl Zimmer

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American Oligarchs

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Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction? Artificial Intelligence

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction? Gene Editing

79

Michael Pollan

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Anand Giridharadas

81

Rachel Cusk

82

Ottessa Moshfegh

83

We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

84

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018

85

Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border

86

Of Love & War

87

The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

88

The Library Book

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How to Cover the World: The Promise and Peril of Journalism in the Digital Age

90

History of Violence: A Novel

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There, There: A Novel

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The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

93

From Prison to President: The Letters of Nelson Mandela

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Bruce Lee and the Afro-Asian Culture Connection

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What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

96

Heart Berries: A Memoir

97

The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism

98

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

99

Planet of the Blind: A Poet’s Journey

100

The End of Capitalism: My Battle With the European and American Deep Establishment