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Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
4) The widows
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vowing revenge against her sheriff husband's killers in 1924 Ohio, Lily Ross offers help to a fellow widow and uncovers dangerous evidence revealing her husband's corrupt secret life and the complexities that triggered his death.
Author
Series
Roaring twenties volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the roaring twenties and San Francisco is a hotbed of illegal boozing, raw lust and black magic. The fog-covered Bay Area can be an intoxicating scene, particularly when you specialize in spirits.
Author
Language
English
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1923. Rose Baker is a typist for the New York City Police Department. Although she spends her days hearing about horrific crimes, she is still part of the supposedly ''weaker'' sex. Rose has always been a traditional girl, but when the modern Odalie joins the typing pool, Rose falls under her spell. As the women bond in the typing pool by day and in speakeasies at night, Rose finds her fascination with Odalie deepening into an obsession which may...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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Description
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.
10) The stills
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Investigating a teen's near death from a tainted batch of moonshine, Sheriff Lily Ross and expert distiller Marvena Whitcomb confront a nemesis bootlegger and Lily's prohibitionist brother-in-law to protect the citizens of their 1927 Ohio community.
Author
Series
Roaring Twenties mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Several years after the sole heiress to a vast fortune disappears without a trace, a young vaudeville actress reluctantly takes the role of a lifetime when an unscrupulous relative entreats her to impersonate the missing girl.
13) Empire girls
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ivy and Rose Adams may be sisters, but they're nothing alike. Rose, the eldest, is the responsible one, while Ivy is spirited and brazen. After the unexpected death of their father, the women are left to reconcile the estate, when they make a shocking discovery: not only has their father left them in financial ruin, but he has also bequeathed their beloved family house to a brother they never knew existed. With only a photograph to guide the way,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of...
15) The hollows
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jess Montgomery showcases her skills as a storyteller in the second in her Kinship mystery series. The Hollows is a powerful, big-hearted and exquisitely written follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Widows. Ohio, 1926: For many years, the underground railroad track in Moonvale Tunnel has been used as a short cut through the Appalachian hills. When an elderly woman is killed walking along the tracks, the brakeman tells tales of seeing a ghostly female...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of...
17) Ex-wife
Author
Series
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age. It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department store. When it comes to sex with other people, both believe in “the honesty policy.” Until they don‘t. Or, at least, until Peter doesn‘t—and...
Author
Series
Cavendon chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. It all begins on a summer weekend in July of 1926 when, for the first time in years, the earl has planned a family weekend. As the family members come together, secrets, problems, joys, and sorrows are revealed. As old enemies come out of the shadows and the Swanns’ loyalty to the Ingham gets tested in ways none of them could have predicted,...
19) Circles of time
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The Acclaimed Trilogy That Has Been Called a Must-Read for Fans of Downton AbbeyA generation has been lost on the Western Front. The dead have been buried, a harsh peace forged, and the howl of shells replaced by the wail of saxophones as the Jazz Age begins. But ghosts lingerthat long-ago golden summer of 1914 tugging at the memory of Martin Rilke and his British cousins, the Grevilles.From the countess to the chauffeur, the inhabitants of Abingdon...
20) One extra corpse
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"May, 1924. It's been seven months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful, silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted . . . and a truly terrible actress. Notthat Emma minds; she's too busy making her academic parents turn in their graves with her new job writing painfully historically inaccurate scenarios for Foremost Studios, in between wrangling their...
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