BOOK REVIEW
HISTORY/LIBRARY SCIENCE Susan Orlean
“The Library Book”
Simon & Schuster
Paperback (also available in hardcover and as an e-book, an audio-book, and on audio CD), 978-1-4767-4019-5, 336 pgs., $16.99 October 1, 2019
A few minutes before 11 a.m.
on April 26, 1986, a smoke alarm rang in the Los Angeles Public Library. At first,
