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Downtown Bend: The Library Book Club

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 11/14/2019
Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Description:
 Discuss "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean

"On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand 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? In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago"--Adapted from Amazon.com.
Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Rya Fennewald
Contact Number: 541-617-7092
Presenter: Rya Fennewald
Link: The Library Book