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** spoiler alert ** "On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angles Public Library."
A wonderful inviting book that I just did not want to put down. I don't want to give to much away but below is a few snippets from the book.
"The day Elvis Presley died, someone checked out all the library's Elvis records and never returned them. The files about the Manson Family and about the Black Dahlia murder, which included clippings and ephemera, disappeared decades ago; they are essentially irreplaceable. In 1981, investigators discovered a women selling books out of the suited in a Beverly Hills hotel. She was earning approximately forty thousand dollars a year with her used-book business. All the the books had been stolen from the Las Angels Public Library."
"The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he burned more than four thousand scholars alive."
"Burning books is an inefficient way to conduct a war, since books and libraries have no military value, but it is devastating act."
Now that is my kind of book. It is mixture of memoir,Biography, history, true crime with a dash of horror.
I highly recommend this book to history lovers.
A wonderful inviting book that I just did not want to put down. I don't want to give to much away but below is a few snippets from the book.
"The day Elvis Presley died, someone checked out all the library's Elvis records and never returned them. The files about the Manson Family and about the Black Dahlia murder, which included clippings and ephemera, disappeared decades ago; they are essentially irreplaceable. In 1981, investigators discovered a women selling books out of the suited in a Beverly Hills hotel. She was earning approximately forty thousand dollars a year with her used-book business. All the the books had been stolen from the Las Angels Public Library."
"The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he burned more than four thousand scholars alive."
"Burning books is an inefficient way to conduct a war, since books and libraries have no military value, but it is devastating act."
Now that is my kind of book. It is mixture of memoir,Biography, history, true crime with a dash of horror.
I highly recommend this book to history lovers.
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