All materials will be provided\, a nd all skill levels are welcome.
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For adults
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Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape inspired by our One Boo k\, One County book\, L.A. Weather by Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\; n and the following book passage:
\n&ldquo\;It&rsquo\;s always n ice out.&rdquo\;
\n&ldquo\;People around the country tend t o 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 sun ny\,&rsquo\; but that&rsquo\;s inaccurate. Few people consider our five se asons to be different from one another\, but they are. You know this. I kn ow this because we&rsquo\;ve lived here all our lives. Ah\, but go ahead a nd tell this to someone back east. Our winter rainy season overlaps with o ur sunny and mild spring\, then with our jacaranda season\, our horribly h ot late summer\, and the Santa Ana season. That&rsquo\;s five seasons ther e. Of course\, some people in town would include the award season\, but th at&rsquo\;s not climate-related unless Oscars&rsquo\; red carpet gets rain ed on. And then\, what about the drought\, the winds\, the marine layer\, the brushfires\, the gigafires\, the mud-slides\, the landslides\, the fla sh floods\, the atmospheric rivers&hellip\;&rdquo\; \;
\nAbout One Book\, One County
One Book\, One County&n bsp\;is a community reading program for Summer 2024 that celebrates collab oration\, education\, and conversation across our county and emphasizes th e power of connected libraries to create connected communities. This progr am is unique because instead of one book for one library system\, all 9.8 million County residents are invited to read one book together\, with supp ortive programming provided by a network of partnered Los Angeles County l ibrary jurisdictions. Learn more about this initiative at LACoun tyLibrary.org/onebook. \;
\nAbout L.
A. Weather \;by Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n
Th
e 2024 selection for \;One Book\, One County \;is \;L.A. Weath
er \;by Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n. \;Published in 2022
\, \;L.A. Weather \;is a New York Times bestseller that follows th
e Mexican-American Alvarado family during a year in Los Angeles &ldquo\;as
they wrestle with impending evacuations\, secrets\, deception\, and betra
yal\, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn i
t all down.&rdquo\;
Marí\;a Amparo Escandó\;n is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author (English/Spanish). Her novel\,&n bsp\;L.A. Weather\, is a Reese&rsquo\;s Book Club pick and the winner of t he Fiction Award at the International Latino Book Awards\, 2022. Her first novel \;Esperanza&rsquo\;s Box of Saints\, (Santitos \;in Spanish ) \;has been 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 novel is \;Gonzá\;lez &\; Daughter Trucking Co.& nbsp\;(Transportes Gonzá\;lez e Hija\, S.A. in Spanish.) Marí\ ;a has been an L.A. resident for forty years.
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