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Celebrate 2024 Pride Month by delving into one of these 12 books that explores vital LGBTQ+ stories.

Happy Pride Month! In between the film festival offerings, the parties, the marches, the performances, and the sheer joy of celebrating our unity, inclusion, and diversity, enjoy your downtime with a new book or two.

From Brittney Griner's memoir to Kevin Kwan's glitzy new novel.

East End school budgets were dealt some blows by voters for 2023/24, but most were successful, while various boards saw new and returning members.

After a few years of virtual ceremonies, the 42nd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes was held in person Friday at USC, kicking off the Festival of Books.

The awards recognize outstanding literary achievements in 12 categories, with winners to be announced at USC in-person on April 22.

If you're looking for your next read, then what could possibly better than a new, undiscovered LGBT+ novel?

9 New Books We Recommend This Week April 29, 2021 There are woods near my house where I sometimes head when I’m craving green shadows and stillness, a reminder that time and nature have very little to do with the human scale of things. Very little — but not nothing: As Scott Weidensaul points out in his new book about migratory birds, “A World on the Wing,” humans are deeply implicated in the recent decimation of aviation species. If you love the woods as I do, this book will make you m...

One Novel. Three Generations. All of Life’s Challenges and Joys. Buy Book ▾ By Patrick Nathan By Thomas Grattan It’s a unique, if common, cruelty to transplant a child who is just putting down roots. For those pulled and relocated, there’s a thirstiness — and a little guarded ring of bark — that those with stable childhoods lack. In “The Recent East,” a wonderful, immersive debut novel from the writer and teacher Thomas Grattan, we’re given an intima...

Image: Avid Reader As moving as it is riveting, Patricia Engel’s Infinite Country is a one-of-a-kind telling of the timeless story of migration. The era-leaping novel combines international history—the Colombian Conflict, the introduction of the DREAM Act—with the personal stories of a family whose bond cannot be broken by geography. A late-night dash for freedom in the opening chapter is just the start of a border-crossing relay race that spans the Western Hemisphere. Engel’s pacing i...