One Book One College

	2014-15 The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse The Madonnas of Echo Park follows the lives of Mexican Americans in the shifting landscape of Los Angeles’s Echo Park neighborhood. Felicia, a housekeeper, and her daughter Aurora weave in and out of each other’s lives, struggling to find a common ground on which to relate. Aurora’s former classmates Duchess and Angie, steeped in American culture,[...]
	2013-14 Southland by Nina Revoyr a Los Angeles Times Bestseller and winner of numerous accolades including Los Angeles Times “Best Books of 2003” and the Lambda Literary Award – is appealing to readers on many levels. It’s a story about Jackie Ishida – a young Japanese American woman (re)discovering her cultural roots, coming to terms with her sexuality,[...]
	2012-13 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The 2012 selection is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot’s journalistic narrative about a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine,[...]
	2011-12 The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkinst an inspirational memoir of 3 African-American youths growing up in urban Newark in poverty who pledge to become doctors and successfully achieve their dream.[...]