The library book
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Simon and Schuster, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781476740188, 1476740186
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 027.47 Orlean | On Shelf |
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 027.47 Orlean | On Shelf |
Sarah Partridge Community Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location | SP Memoir Orlean | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Arson investigation.
Books -- Conservation and restoration -- California -- Los Angeles.
Books.
Libraries -- Social aspects.
Library materials.
Los Angeles Public Library. -- Central Library -- Fire, 1986.
Los Angeles Public Library. -- Central Library -- History.
Public libraries -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
True crime stories.
Books -- Conservation and restoration -- California -- Los Angeles.
Books.
Libraries -- Social aspects.
Library materials.
Los Angeles Public Library. -- Central Library -- Fire, 1986.
Los Angeles Public Library. -- Central Library -- History.
Public libraries -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
True crime stories.
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Published
New York : Simon and Schuster, 2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781476740188, 1476740186
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-317).
Description
"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? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and bestselling author Susan Orlean 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."--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Orlean, S. (2018). The library book (First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.). Simon and Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Orlean, Susan. 2018. The Library Book. Simon and Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Orlean, Susan. The Library Book Simon and Schuster, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Orlean, Susan. The Library Book First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., Simon and Schuster, 2018.
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