"A pulsating signal from the liminal zone where the American dream meets the American nightmare." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Jane and her brother Kevin Kim embody the model minority myth until both depart from the path: Jane drops out of law school without telling her parents, and her brother Kevin […]
Vroman's will be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC campus this year! Visit us April 18-19, 2026 at the following booths: Vroman's Main Booth: 117 | Vroman's Young Readers: 990 | Book Soup: 088
The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries--Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg--revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it. In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film […]
Mr. Steve and the gang host story time every Wednesday at 11 AM in the upstairs children's section of Vroman's Bookstore.
The Vroman’s Fiction Reading Group explores contemporary fiction -long and short -from a diverse selection of writers. Enjoy lively discussions at our one-hour meetings. Our Fiction Reading Group is free and inclusive – there are no requirements or criteria to join. We announce upcoming titles 3-6 months in advance and choose titles that are available in […]
Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With Darkology, Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unravels the complex, subterranean, and all-too-often expunged history of "Darkology"--the insidious study, commodification, and dehumanization of Black life, through which performers caricatured the enslaved and formerly enslaved for […]
ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF FOURTEEN STORIES, NONE OF THEM ARE YOURS, CO-WRITER OF the films CAUSEWAY and EILEEN RECIPIENT OF PRESTIGIOUS RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE AND JOAN SCOTT MEMORIAL FICTION AWARD "Kill Dick" is a love letter to LA's darkness and light."--USA Today A fever dream, Kill Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into […]
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, a rousing novel that follows two young women fleeing a divided America: one running toward a dazzling future and the other running from a troubled past Christmas, 1857. America's future is precarious; civil war looms on the horizon. After her abolitionist husband is murdered in the lawless Kansas Territory, […]
"Maria Semple is a treasure." --Los Angeles Times The New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman's cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in. Adora […]
This probing account shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of terror against Asian Americans. But these attacks were part of a much longer pattern that made anti-Asian racism integral to the outbreak of white supremacist, […]
The next epic crime novel from Jordan Harper, a story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge, and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down. Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein's monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together […]
The Pasadena Conservatory of Music will be putting on a special musical storytime with featured book: If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen. Caregivers and children aged 3-9 will enjoy story, craft activities, creative movement, and a mini-concert!
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