If you enjoy novels about family secrets, check out Jami Attenberg and "All This Could Be Yours" at Skylight Books. As each family member grapples with Victor's history, they must figure out a way to move forward--with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children.

Note: this event has sold out of tickets. Actress, singer, author & iconic star of Hollywood & Broadway productions Julie Andrews visits Barnes & Noble at the Grove to celebrate "Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years." Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films, Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.

Isa Mazzei visits Stories Books & Café to discuss her memoir, "Camgirl," which recounts her experiences as an online sexworker.

Come out to Vroman's for an evening with Mark Z. Danielewski and "Little Blue Kite." We all have fears, but if we can't face the small ones how will we face the big ones? Kai is afraid to fly a little blue kite. But Kai is also very, very brave, and overcoming this small fear will lead him on a great adventure. Remember: all great adventures start with one little moment. You know the one. It's like a gentle breeze…

Come out to Book Soup for an evening with Henry Barajas and "La Voz De M.A.Y.O Rambo Vol. 1." This book is based on the oral history of Ramon Jaurigue, an orphan and WWII veteran who co-founded the Mexican, American, Yaqui, and Others (M.A.Y.O.) organization, which successfully lobbied the Tucson City Council to improve living and working conditions for members of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. Thanks to this period of activism, the Yaquis were federally recognized as one of the…

Come see Sands Hall in conversation with Michelle Latiolais about "Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology" at Chevalier's Bookstore. In the secluded canyons of Hollywood, Sands Hall—a young woman from a literary family striving to forge her own way as an artist—finds herself increasingly drawn toward the certainty that Scientology appears to offer. Her time in the Church, the 1980s, includes the secretive illness and death of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and the ascension of David Miscavige. In "Reclaiming…

Join Carmen Maria Machado for a discussion of her new memoir, "In the Dream House," which chronicles a relationship turned sour in prose that draws from Machado's speculative fiction inspirations. With "In the Dream House," she reinvents the memoir with a gut-wrenching tale of love gone wrong, exploring her personal history of psychological abuse while bearing witness to the history and reality of violence in queer relationships.Machado will be joined in conversation by Kima Jones, founder of Jack Jones Literary…

Barry Siegel will discuss "Dreamers and Schemers" at the Last Bookstore. This book gives the stranger-than-fiction treatment to the tale of hero-protagonist William “Billy” May Garland, who set out to win the 1932 Olympic Games for a fledgling Los Angeles and unwittingly gave us the city we know. Join us to learn more about this much-overlooked moment in LA history.

If you enjoy tech, check out Ramesh Srinivasan and "Beyond the Valley: How Innovators Around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow" at Skylight Books. This book describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us.

Book Soup presents Marcellas Reynolds to discuss and sign "Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion." The first-ever book celebrating black models, filled with revealing essays, interviews, and stunning photographs.

Join Patricia Schultz at Vroman's for a discussion and signing of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die (Deluxe Edition): The World as You've Never Seen It Before." Patricia Schultz curates the world. When she published the original "1,000 Places to See Before You Die," she created not only a new kind of travel book but also a new way of thinking about our experiences and interests. Now Schultz captivates our hearts in the same compelling way her original book…

Skylight Books presents Alvin Orloff to discuss and sign "Disasterama!" "Disasterama!" is the true story of Alvin Orloff who, as a shy kid from the suburbs of San Francisco, stumbled into the wild, eclectic crowd of Crazy Club Kids, Punk Rock Nutters, Goofy Goofballs, Fashion Victims, Disco Dollies, Happy Hustlers, and Dizzy Twinks of post-Stonewall American queer culture of the late 1970s, only to see the “subterranean lavender twilit shadow world of the gay ghetto” ravished by AIDS. Trebor Healey…

Jordan Gershowitz will discuss "Ignore the Trolls" at Vroman's. This book is funny fairytale with a serious contemporary message about the online bullies known as trolls, and how to deal with them.

If you enjoy psychological novels, check out Orlando Ortega-Medina and "The Death of Baseball" at Skylight Books. Tim Minear will join Ortega-Medina in conversation. Former Little League champion Kimitake “Clyde” Koba finds strength in the belief that he is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe as he struggles to escape the ghost of his brother and his alcoholic father. Japan and Israel collide in the City of Angels in this explosive psychological novel about faith, idol worship, and the search for…

Come to Vroman's for a celebration of local authors featuring readings. Steven Greenbaum presents and signs "One Family: Indivisible: A Spiritual Memoir." Marilyn Ladd presents and signs "Glad to Be a Ladd." Michelle Kuei presents and signs "Perfectly Normal: An Immigrant’s Story."

Come to Barnes & Noble at the Grove for a discussion of childhood stardom with Andrea Barber who appeared on Full House.

Come see Andy Espinoza Long discuss "Tales From the Strip" at Book Soup. My name's Andy and I'm a male stripper. Throughout the years, I guesstimate to have performed over six hundred shows. That includes male revues, bachelorette parties, stripograms, private one on ones, office visits, just about any event that your mind can dream up. Some of these tales are insane; some are even unbelievable at times. While writing this memoir, more than once, I'd sit back and take…

Come out to Vroman's for an evening with Cathy Heller and "Don’t Keep Your Day Job: How to Turn Your Passion Into Your Career." This book will get you fired up, ready to rip it open and use your zone of genius to add a little more sparkle to this world. Cathy Heller, host of the popular podcast Don't Keep Your Day Job, shares wisdom, anecdotes, and practical suggestions from successful creative entrepreneurs and experts, including actress Jenna Fischer on…

The Last Bookstore presents Jonathan Blum and Holiday Reinhorn to read from their newest works, "The Usual Uncertainties" and "Big Cats." The stories in The Usual Uncertainties follow characters who live at the edges of the frame—among them, a community college dropout from Miami, a couple who meet at a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles, a religious boy whose mother arranges a square dance Bar Mitzvah party for him, the director of a competitive Scrabble club, and a widowed geriatric care…

The Last Bookstore presents Jonathan Blum and Holiday Reinhorn to read from their newest works, "The Usual Uncertainties" and "Big Cats." The stories in The Usual Uncertainties follow characters who live at the edges of the frame—among them, a community college dropout from Miami, a couple who meet at a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles, a religious boy whose mother arranges a square dance Bar Mitzvah party for him, the director of a competitive Scrabble club, and a widowed geriatric care…

If you enjoy webcomics, check out Reza Farazmand and "Poorlier Drawn Lines" at Book Soup. This book is the hilarious third installment of Reza Farazmand's New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines series. It follows up his 2017 hit Comics for a Strange World, and takes place in the same bizarre, now utterly beloved universe with familiar characters Reza's devoted fans love.

Join Lisa Pease at Vroman's for a discussion and signing of "Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy." This book lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed; and how the justice system and the media failed to present the truth of the case to the public. Pease reveals how the trial…

Diana Bellerose will discuss "The Light Within" at the Last Bookstore. Each of us is born with amazing traits which we all forgot about because of the difficult times or painful events. Whatever the reason might be, we all have the capacity to bounce back and not allow darkness and negativity to alter our perception. When we align with the laws of the Universe which is a pivotal requirement in the process of creating the best possible existence for ourselves…

Come to Barnes & Noble in Burbank to hear Caity Schmidt discuss her psychological novel about a teen girl who imagines a fantasy world where she can control magic.