Attendance is limited\, and advance regist ration is required. Please register every individual in your party. This w ill be used to save your spots in the program. We cannot guarantee availab ility for any unregistered attendees. \;
\n&ldquo\;I t&rsquo\;s always nice out.&rdquo\;
\n&ldquo\;People around the country tend to think so. East Coast people\, people from the Midwest . They say\, &lsquo\;There&rsquo\;s no weather in L.A. It&rsquo\;s always seventy-two and sunny\,&rsquo\; but that&rsquo\;s inaccurate. Few people c onsider our five seasons to be different from one another\, but they are. You know this. I know this because we&rsquo\;ve lived here all our lives. Ah\, but go ahead and tell this to someone back east. Our winter rainy sea son overlaps with our sunny and mild spring\, then with our jacaranda seas on\, our horribly hot late summer\, and the Santa Ana season. That&rsquo\; s five seasons there. Of course\, some people in town would include the aw ard season\, but that&rsquo\;s not climate-related unless Oscars&rsquo\; r ed carpet gets rained on. And then\, what about the drought\, the winds\, the marine layer\, the brushfires\, the gigafires\, the mud-slides\, the l andslides\, the flash floods\, the atmospheric rivers&hellip\;&rdquo\ ; \;
\nAbout One Book\, One County
\nOne Book\, One County \;is a community reading program for Summer 2024 tha t celebrates collaboration\, education\, and conversation across our count y and emphasizes the power of connected libraries to create connected comm unities. This program is unique because instead of one book for one librar y system\, all 9.8 million County residents are invited to read one book t ogether\, with supportive programming provided by a network of partnered L os Angeles County library jurisdictions. Learn more about this initiative at \;LACountyLibrary.org/onebook. \;
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About L.A. Weather \;by Marí\;a Amparo Esc andó\;n
\nThe 2024 selection for \;One Book\, One County \;is \;L.A. Weather \;by Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n. \;Published in 2022\, \;L.A. Weather&n bsp\;is a New York Times bestseller that follows the Mexican-American Alva rado family during a year in Los Angeles &ldquo\;as they wrestle with impe nding evacuations\, secrets\, deception\, and betrayal\, and their toughes t decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.&rdquo\;
\nMarí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n is a New York Times best-sellin g bilingual author (English/Spanish). Her novel\, \;L.A. Weather\, is a Reese&rsquo\;s Book Club pick and the winner of the Fiction Award at the International Latino Book Awards\, 2022. Her first novel \;Esperanza& rsquo\;s Box of Saints\, (Santitos \;in Spanish) \;has been the nu mber one best seller in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List\, it has 2 1 foreign editions and is read in over 86 countries. Her second novel is&n bsp\;Gonzá\;lez &\; Daughter Trucking Co. \;(Transportes Gonz á\;lez e Hija\, S.A. in Spanish.) Marí\;a has been an L.A. res ident for forty years.
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