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Midtown Reader's Nonfiction Book Club: The Library Book

Presented by Midtown Reader at Midtown Reader, Tallahassee FL

Dec 18 2019
Midtown Reader's Nonfiction Book Club: The Library Book

Nonfiction Book Club will discuss Susan Orlean’s newest, THE LIBRARY BOOK! Stop by Midtown Reader to pick up your copy at 10% off (now in paperback), and join us. All are welcome, whether or not you finish the book or have attended before!

ABOUT THE BOOK

On the morning of April 29, 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 fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “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 ... view more »

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Midtown Reader

1123 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL 32303

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We share a parking lot with Paisley Café and Izzy Pub and Sushi - Paisley closes at 2 PM and our events are typically in the evenings

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