Attendance is limited\, and advance regist ration is required. Please register every individual in your party\, inclu ding kids. This will be used to save your spots in the program. We cannot guarantee availability for any unregistered attendees. \;
\n \nPaint an L.A. Weather Landscape inspired by our One Book\, One County book\, L.A. Weather by Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n and the foll owing book passage:
\n&ldquo\;It&rsquo\;s always nice out.&rdquo \;
\n&ldquo\;People around the country tend to think so. Ea st 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\; b ut that&rsquo\;s inaccurate. Few people consider our five seasons to be di fferent from one another\, but they are. You know this. I know this becaus e we&rsquo\;ve lived here all our lives. Ah\, but go ahead and tell this t o someone back east. Our winter rainy season overlaps with our sunny and m ild spring\, then with our jacaranda season\, 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 award season\, but that&rsquo\;s no t climate-related unless Oscars&rsquo\; red carpet gets rained on. And the n\, what about the drought\, the winds\, the marine layer\, the brushfires \, the gigafires\, the mud-slides\, the landslides\, the flash floods\, th e atmospheric rivers&hellip\;&rdquo\; \;
\nAbout On e Book\, One County
\nOne Book\, One County \;is a comm unity reading program for Summer 2024 that celebrates collaboration\, educ ation\, and conversation across our county and emphasizes the power of con nected libraries to create connected communities. This program is unique b ecause instead of one book for one library system\, all 9.8 million County residents are invited to read one book together\, with supportive program ming provided by a network of partnered Los Angeles County library jurisdi ctions. Learn more about this initiative at LACountyLibrary.org/ onebook. \;
\nAbout L.A. Weather&nbs
p\;by Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n
The 2024 selecti
on for \;One Book\, One County \;is \;L.A. Weather \;by Ma
rí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n. \;Published in 2022\, \;L.A.
Weather \;is a New York Times bestseller that follows the Mexican-Amer
ican Alvarado family during a year in Los Angeles &ldquo\;as they wrestle
with impending evacuations\, secrets\, deception\, and betrayal\, and thei
r toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.&rd
quo\;
Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n is a New York Times be st-selling bilingual author (English/Spanish). Her novel\, \;L.A. Weat her\, is a Reese&rsquo\;s Book Club pick and the winner of the Fiction Awa rd at the International Latino Book Awards\, 2022. Her first novel \;E speranza&rsquo\;s Box of Saints\, (Santitos \;in Spanish) \;has be en the number one best seller in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List\, it has 21 foreign editions and is read in over 86 countries. Her second n ovel is \;Gonzá\;lez &\; Daughter Trucking Co. \;(Transpo rtes Gonzá\;lez e Hija\, S.A. in Spanish.) Marí\;a has been an L.A. resident for forty years.
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