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61) Gone west
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value. Late summer, 1921: Disgraced former lightweight champion Pepper Van Dean has spent the past two years on the carnival circuit performing the dangerous "hangman's drop" and taking on all comers in nightly challenge bouts. But when...
63) The Evening Road
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Every road leads to the bedlam of Marvel, and on it lives will collide and be changed forever. Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones and Marilynn Robinson, THE EVENING ROAD is the story of two remarkable women on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred, and eager to flee the secrets they have left behind.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe--she...
66) The 1920s
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1920s, including prohibition, the higher standard of living, the Teapot Dome scandal, barnstorming, and flappers.
67) Ingenue
Author
Series
Flappers volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Unaware that a hired killer has followed them from Chicago, three eighteen-year-old flappers relocate to separate sections of New York City where their lives still revolve around speakeasies and rich boyfriends.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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...
70) Tiffany blues
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Pub. Date
2018
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Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel--a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the reader into the past better than a time machine could accomplish" (The Associated Press). New York, 1924....
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Examines American culture and society during the 1920s, and discusses politics, Prohibition, technology, the economy, social changes, literature and the arts, music, sports, and more. Includes a time line, a list of classic books and films from the decade, and instructions for an activity.
73) All for a song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Dorothy Lynn Dunbar, who thought she had everything she ever wanted, discovers a whole new way of life in St. Louis with the help of a dynamic, charismatic evangelist--who just happens to be a woman.
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This collection of the author's best short, fantastic stories includes: The curious case of Benjamin Button, a surreal story about a man who is born as a feeble old man, and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby at the end of his life. Fitzgerald's preoccupation with moneyed society takes on a fantastical form, in The Diamond as big as the Ritz, in a playful yet sinister fairy tale about a family so wealthy they are entirely above the law. In Tarquin...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs-all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age-in order to care for Arlette. Now she's ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman... In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life...
76) Cocoa magic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Eight-year-old Daniel loves helping his Great-Uncle Lewis, a chocolatier, and he secretly gifts chocolates to classmates who need cheering up. When Uncle Lewis goes away, Daniel's loneliness is obvious--and it turns out his "secret" gift-giving has been obvious too. His classmates respond with a bounty of small gifts to lift his spirits. Includes an author's note about empathy and acts of kindness."--
Author
Series
Garden of the cursed volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Seventeen-year-old cursebreaker Marlow Briggs reluctantly pretends to be in love with a powerful noble to gain entry into an illustrious--and deadly--society that holds clues to her mother's disappearance.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
80) The echoes
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The fourth in Jess Montgomery's evocative Kinship series, The Echoes combines exquisite storytelling with extraordinary crime plotting. "A beautifully written tour de force." -Linda Castillo on The Stills As July 4, 1928 approaches, Sheriff Lily Ross and her family look forward to the opening of an amusement park in a nearby town, created by Chalmer Fitzpatrick-a veteran and lumber mill owner. When Lily is alerted to the possible drowning of a girl,...