Tierrasanta Book Club

This month's book is 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 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? 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 compelling book that manages to tell the broader story.Books are available for check-out at the Tierrasanta Branch Library.  2nd Thursdays. For further information, contact Karen Boyd @ 858-888-2115.