🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨! SJCPLS is excited to announce that Susan Orlean’s "The Library Book" is the title for St. Johns Reads 2021! Along with the new title, the Library System has decided to move events up a month—St. Johns Reads will now be a January event in coming years. Many may know Susan Orlean from her New York Times bestseller "The Orchid Thief." With "The Library Book," Orlean tells the story of the 1986 Los Angeles Library fire, which shut down the L.A. Central Library for nearly seven years. This event would have made national headlines if it had not happened the same week as the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Typical of Orlean’s other works, "The Library Book" is populated with interesting real-life characters and intrigue, as she details the investigation into the cause of the fire, the recovery process, and the building restoration. This is the 16th year that the Library System has hosted St. Johns Reads. A variety of virtual programs inspired by the chosen book w...