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REVIEWS: The Library
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The Washington Post
Kirkus
GoodReads
Book Companion
A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR (2018). On the
morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los
Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and
staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was
not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that
first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was
disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than
seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed
four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand
more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty
years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set
fire to the library—and if so, who? Brimming with her signature
wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The
Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the
stacks.
Characters: 208. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Non-Fiction.
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