The Southern California Library (SCL) is a nonprofit people's library located in South Los Angeles dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice and using its collections to address the challenges of the present so that all people have the ability, resources, and freedom to make their own histories.
 
The Library's community of families and youth have a strong desire for children's books that represent the diverse experiences of African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, and Native American children with nuance and complexity, books with social justice themes, and bilingual Spanish/English books.  To meet this demand, SCL is organizing a book drive with the goal of acquiring at least 200 books to build their collection of children's literature for children ages 5-13. To view SCL's wish list, see http://www.indiebound.org/users/so-cal-library/wishlist.

 
Staff from the library will be at Skylight books on Aug. 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to meet with Skylight customers and collect donated books. Books may be dropped off at the store for the book drive before Aug. 15. New and slightly used books in good condition will be accepted. (Skylight Books will give a 10% discount for any books purchased for the drive)
 
For more information on the Southern California Library, please visit www.socallib.org or call (323) 759-6063 ext. 16. 
 

Thursday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Undiscovered Gyrl (Vintage Contemporaries Original)

Sexually frank, often heartbreaking, and bursting with devilish humor, Undiscovered Gyrl is an extraordinarily accomplished novel of identity, voyeurism, and deceit.

Only on the internet can you have so many friends and be so lonely.
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt is taking a year off before college to find her passion. Ambitious in her own way, Katie intends to do more than just smoke weed with her boyfriend, Rory, and work at the bookstore. She plans to seduce Dan, a thirty-two-year-old film professor.

Author and film director Burnett has had some terrific events here for his previous books, so we know he'll be sure to be terrific..

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We're the independent bookstore of the month!

We're thrilled and honored to be picked as Three Percent's independent bookstore of the month!  Three Percent, a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester (their name is taken from the fact that only about 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation), is a fantastic place to hear about all the latest news in the world of translated lit (an area we have an active interest in, with our new World and Translated Literature section in the store).

 

Keep up with all their posts about Skylight through this month, and check out the rest of the site's offerings, here.

[...] So, you wonder why. Why everything changed or nothing has. You look through a filter of the past. The con is always the same. Never the same. Always growing. Too many movie studios. Not enough comics. This is what you wanted so many years ago. To be accepted. And now you are. Now Robert Downey Jr. comes for your approval. Hollywood gobbles up every new series hungry for ideas. You got what you wanted, so why do you feel left behind?
The con never stays in one place for long.
It grows.
It is the future.
Place yourself in it.

 
We've just received a massive shipment of sale books here at Skylight, and you know what that means!  Multiple copies of hand-picked, fantastic books, at astonishingly low prices. Here are a few that are just screaming out for a good book club to take them home:

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Thirteen chapters, each a short story in their own right, compose a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. We've got it in hardcover for $6.98.

You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude turns a keen, affectionate eye on the paradoxes of love and and art in this romantic farce set among the members of an aspiring Los Angeles rock band. We've got it in paperback for $4.98.

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, a story of two boyhood friends who form an unusual family with a woman, Clare, and her baby with one of the men. We've got the paperback for $4.98.


If you have a book group but you're not registered with the store, remember that book groups that do register get 15% off their pick each month. E-mail Emily at emily@skylightbooks.com now to find out how to register your book group! You can check out our registered book groups here.

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