Please register to join us for an online d iscussion of The Library Book \;by Susan Orlean.
\nOn the morning of April 29\, 1986\, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Publ ic Library. As the moments passed\, the patrons and staff who had been cle ared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As on e fireman recounted\, "Once that first stack got going\, it was 'Goodbye\, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned fo r more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished\, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Inve stigators 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?
\nWeaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an i nvestigation of the fire\, award-winning \;New Yorker \;r eporter and \;New York Times \;bestselling author Susan O rlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
\nPlease visit www.bettendorflibrary.com/adult-pr ograms for more information.
\nBooks are available on a first-come b asis at the Information Desk. You may also call the Library at 563-344-417 9 to have a book signed out to you and placed on the Holds shelf.
\nThis meeting will take place online via GoToMeeting. \; After register ing\, you will receive an email with the GoToMeeting login information on the day before the discussion.
\nThis program is funded by the Frien ds of the Bettendorf Public Library.
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