History

L.A. Noir by John Buntin

American History

shortened goodreads blurb “A fascinating examination of Los Angeles’s underbelly, the Mob, and America’s most admired–and reviled–police department, L.A. Noir is an enlightening, entertaining, and richly detailed narrative about the city originally known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Se–ora la Reina de los Angeles, “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels.” I [...]

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The Great Plague by A. Lloyd Moote

History

The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year by A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy C. Moote It started slow on April 12, 1665 in the one of the poorer parishes that make up the city of London. An estimated 100,000 lives were lost before the epidemic of the plague tapered off with the [...]

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