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? By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours.
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” ( The Washington Post).
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” ( USA TODAY)-a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries.
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