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Computer Class

Please sign up ahead of time for the classes you plan to attend. The computer lab will accommodate 15 students per session.

For more information or to submit a sign up form visit the Central Library reference desk or call at (323) 722-6660 x2275.

Upcoming Class:

  • Introduction to Computers
    Monday, July 26, 2010
    5:30-7:30 PM
    This class will be held at Central Library.


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    -July - December 2010
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A Social Security representative will be available to assist applicants and existing beneficiaries with:

• Applying for Social Security Retirement and/or Disability Benefits Online

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New Fiction
ALT Tag for ImageIntelligence by Susan Hasler
A 21-year veteran of the CIA, Hasler charts the day-to-day efforts of a team of counterterrorist analysts (aka alchemists) in a strong debut that puts most other thriller authors with similar backgrounds in the intelligence field to shame. Madeline James and her crew of brilliant misfits struggle to piece together shreds of evidence gleaned from mountains of raw data (slag) in a race to uncover a plot that threatens to dwarf the body count of 9/11.
The ScarecrowHer Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers
The first in an epic two-book saga, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters as each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.
Into the Beautiful NorthHannah's List by Debbie Macomber
Macomber delves into a Seattle widower's pursuit of love in her hopeful latest. Hannah Everett dies at 36 of ovarian cancer, leaving behind a letter for her pediatrician husband, Michael Everett, to be opened on the first-year anniversary of her death. In it, she suggests he consider one of three women as his next wife: her cousin, chef Winter Adams; Leanne Lancaster, Hannah's divorced oncology nurse; and Macy Roth, a ditzy, animal-loving artist.
New Nonfiction
 The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman

Comedian Silverman's memoir that mixes showbiz moments with the more serious subject of her teenage bout with depression as well as stories of her childhood and adolescence.
Last LectureHow Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom

In How Pleasure Works, Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom draws on groundbreaking research to unveil the deeper workings of why we desire what we desire.

DeweyThe Pacific by Hugh Ambrose

Leckie provides one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of WWII. Follow his odyssey, from basic training to the raging battles in the Pacific.
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