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True Crime Book Club

Wed, Dec 18

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Howard City

True Crime Book Club
True Crime Book Club

Time & Location

Dec 18, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Howard City, 117 W Williams St, Howard City, MI 49329, USA

About the Event

Join us for a True Crime Book Discussion on Wednesday, Dec. 18 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library. The November book selection is The Library Book by Susan Orlean. Copies are available for checkout.

Book Summary

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…



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Address

117 W. Williams St
PO Box 220
Howard City, MI 49329

Phone

231-937-5575

231-937-6175

Fax

231-937-9240

Hours

Monday: 9AM - 7PM

Tuesday: 9AM - 6PM

Wednesday: 9AM - 7PM

Thursday: 9AM - 6PM

Friday: 9AM - 5PM

​​Saturday: 9AM - 2PM 

​Sunday: Closed

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