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Series
Wicked city volume 3
Language
English
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"June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York's most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket -- and Anson's mortal enemy -- turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their short-lived honeymoon bliss...
Series
Hotel Portofino volume Season 1
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a British family who open a hotel for upper class travelers on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring '20s.
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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,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1930 an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era...
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
495 pages : genalogical table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An Olympic yachting hopeful traces her heritage to Norway, following an intriguing clue left by her deceased father, which leads her to uncover the story of a woman linked one hundred years ago to the composer of "Peer Gynt," Edvard Grieg.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked just below the surface, but Annie Mason never expected her enigmatic new neighbor to be a witch. When she witnesses a confrontation between her best friend Bea and the infamous Emmeline Delacroix at one of Emmeline's extravagantly illicit parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where magic can buy what money can not; a world where the consequence of a forbidden blood bargain...
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Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she's always expected--until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead. The couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement--a religious society of mediums and psychics that emerged following the mass deaths of the Spanish flu and First World War-and Evelyn's carefully composed world begins to...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper's daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.
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Series
Language
English
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"The first book in a major new series from the #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley. Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"--a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue which takes Maia across the world to a...
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Series
Silver Screen historical volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the worst thing she has to worry about is the shocking historical...
Author
Series
Roaring twenties volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at their famous film studios, script girl Jessie Beckett has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth. So when a projectionist is shot dead at the movie theatre where he worked, his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, and why. Who was the mysterious man in the red coat who fired three shots at Joe Petrovitch? And how could he vanish from the balcony with no trace? To find...
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Series
Jack and Ivy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
387 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten years have passed since Jack and Ivy, elite operatives for the secret agency Talon, rescued their friend Philip and completed their fateful mission. The 1920s are in full swing as American speakeasies thrive amid Prohibition, and despite the team's best efforts, the deadly cult, the Order of the Rising Moon, lives on in the shadows. Which is no surprise to Ivy; nothing has gone as she expected since that day after Poenari Castle. When a wave of...
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Language
English
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Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne...
Series
Hotel Portofino volume Season 2
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1927 and Bella Ainsworth is still devoting her considerable energies to the Hotel Portofino, which has overcome its early troubles and is starting to prosper.
Series
Frankie Drake mysteries volume Season 2
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. While communism and prohibition are debated in speakeasies, society will never be the same, and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill.
Series
Hotel Portofino volume Season 3
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bella is preparing for her father and sister's arrival but is thrown when Cecil appears requesting divorce. Over the weeks, Bella must decide her future as well as avoiding fascist leader Danioni. But with the Wall Street Crash, things get worse as Bella and Cecil lose everything.
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Series
Remixed classics volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"-- Provided by publisher.
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In 1926 South Carolina, former football player Tom Hickey, his sister Florence, and policeman friend Leo Weiss, investigate the cover up of the lynching of Tom's black friend Frank Gaines, and discover their abusive mother was only one of many players behind the injustice.
20) Cahokia jazz
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
436 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...