This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the m eeting via email.
\nhttps://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrce 2srDouH9aTyu_GZqZsrFCiAOBmnVz3
\nCo-sponsored by the City of Wes t Hollywood Women's Advisory Board\, Women and Books Book Club meets on th e first Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works by and focused on w omen.
\nPlease contact the library to borrow a print copy of the boo k. eBook and eAudiobook are available throu gh Libby app/OverDrive.
\nSummary pro vided by the publisher:
\nOn 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 th is was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted\, "Once that fir st 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 dam aged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene\, b ut more than thirty years later\, the mystery remains: Did someone purpose fully set fire to the library&mdash\;and if so\, who?
\nWeaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire\, awa rd-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestse lling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling b ook that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
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