The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
LibrariesLos Angeles Public LibraryArsonHistoryLibraries and societyLibraries, united statesLos angeles (calif.), historynyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2018-11-04
The Library Book alternates between a true-crime work on the suspicion of arson in the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Central Library; and a broader history of that library and Orlean's personal devotion to libraries in general, especially as the site of fond memories she shared with her mother.
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