The library book
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On the morning of April 28, 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 this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first 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 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?
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Orlean, S. (2018). The library book. Unabridged, [Playaway]. Solon, OH, Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Orlean, Susan. 2018. The Library Book. Solon, OH, Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Orlean, Susan, The Library Book. Solon, OH, Findaway World, LLC, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Orlean, Susan. The Library Book. Unabridged, [Playaway]. Solon, OH, Findaway World, LLC, 2018.
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| Last Sierra Extract Time | Marked for Re-extraction |
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| Last File Modification Time | Dec 19, 2024 09:35:31 PM |
| Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Jan 01, 2025 10:21:22 PM |
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| 250 | |a Unabridged, [Playaway]. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Solon, OH : |b Findaway World, LLC, |c [2018] | |
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| 500 | |a Previously released by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018. | ||
| 500 | |a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback. | ||
| 500 | |a Release date supplied by publisher. | ||
| 511 | 0 | |a Read by the author. | |
| 520 | |a On the morning of April 28, 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 this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first 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 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? | ||
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