Join the Book Group @ The Bookmark at noon Tuesday, April 16 for this gripping nonfiction account about a disastrous fire in the LA library.

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 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?

Join the library’s Amanda White to discuss The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman on Tuesday, March 19 from 12 pm to 1 pm at The Bookmark, 9 Public Square, Shelbyville, IN 46161.

Books are available at the circulation desk in Adult Services on the main floor of the Shelby County Public Library, Shelbyville Branch. You don’t have to be finished with the book to join the discussion!

For questions, contact adultservices@sscpl.lib.in.us or call the library at 317-398-7121.