A New York Times chart-topper and selected for Reese's Book Club!
On the morning of April 28, 1986, an emergency fire alert echoed through the Los Angeles Public Library. The blaze was catastrophic—reaching temperatures of 2,000 degrees and raging for over seven hours. When firefighters finally brought it under control, 400,000 books had been destroyed, and another 700,000 suffered damage. Investigators arrived to piece together what happened, yet decades later, the question lingers: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
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