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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Working as the emcee at an LGBTQ-friendly speakeasy in the French Quarter of 1929 New Orleans, Millie is approached by a young socialite whose scandalous murder places Millie's best friend, the show's drag star, under suspicion.
Author
Series
Family saga trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The third novel in a trilogy, Flesh on the Bone picks up the story of the married children of the first two books. Jake and Raisa Kessel emigrated with their respective parents as seven and eight-year-old children in 1907. Their immigrant parents came to this country with only the "flesh on their bones." They struggled to make their own way even with all America had to offer. Now, Jake and Raisa are hungry for new horizons and head east to Michigan...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
From the publisher. Flappers takes readers back to the time of speakeasies, gangsters, dance bands, and silent film stars, offering a fresh look at the Jazz Age by focusing on the women who came to symbolize it. Flappers captures the full scope of the hedonistic subculture that made the Roaring Twenties roar, a group that reacted to Prohibition and other attempts to impose a stricter morality on the nation. Topics include the transition from silent...
Author
Series
The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science volume 126th ser., 1
Pub. Date
2008
Author
Series
Bitter root volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...
147) Born of illusion
Author
Series
Born of illusion volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Anna Van Housen has a secret. A gifted illusionist, Anna assists her mother, the renowned medium Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and séances, easily navigating the underground world of magicians, mediums, and mentalists in 1920's New York. As the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini -- or so Marguerite claims -- sleight of hand illusions have never been a challenge for Anna. The real trick is keeping her own gifts secret from her opportunistic...
Author
Series
Bitter root volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
"Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo— hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat— the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must once again fight to save the world, unless their own...
Author
Series
Lady Eleanor Swift mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Christmas at the castle with holly, handmade gifts, snowflakes and... is that a body under the tree? Someone call Lady Swift! Winter, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, amateur sleuth and reluctant lady of the manor, has been invited to spend Christmas in Scotland, at the beautiful castle of her dear friends Baron and Baroness Ashley. Even her favourite companion, master of mischief Gladstone the bulldog, is coming along to share a slice of turkey. As snow...
Series
Diviners volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 27
Description
The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
As the most opulent hotel in Manchester, England, during the decadent Roaring '20s, The Grand is more than a building. It's a nexus for schemes, scandals, romance and intrigue. For owner John Bannerman, The Grand symbolizes a tradition of luxury and elegance begun by his father. For Marcus Bannerman, it becomes a risky investment and a way to entice his brother's wife into bed. And for the maids and porters employed there, it represents a possible...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Appears on list
Description
"A man, "born under unusual circumstances," ages backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be. This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end." --
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Following a decade of worldwide terror and deprivation, the Roaring Twenties were a swinging time of flappers, bathtub gin and high spirits. It was an exhilarating period when we could achieve anything, from flying across oceans, to discovering the mysteries of the past, to unlocking the secrets of life itself."--History Channel website.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
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...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher, a glamorous lady detective in 1920s Melbourne. In 'Murder under the Mistletoe," Phryne and company head to a chalet to celebrate Christmas in July, but when they get there, they find one of the residents dead, electrocuted while hanging festive lights.
158) Brideshead revisited
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A Londoner of lower class befriends and begins a romantic relationship with an aristocrat that becomes complicated when the aristocrat introduces his new friend to his sister.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Appears on list
Description
"The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Following a decade of worldwide terror and deprivation, the Roaring Twenties were a swinging time of flappers, bathtub gin and high spirits. It was an exhilarating period when we could achieve anything, from flying across oceans, to discovering the mysteries of the past, to unlocking the secrets of life itself."--Container.
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