The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 31, 2020. Read by Susan Sweeney.

Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times 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.

(Simon & Schuster: ISBN-10: 1476740186)

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