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Winds of change volume 2
Language
English
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Ten years ago, Emma Malloy fled Dublin for Boston as a battered woman, escaping the husband who scarred her beautiful face. The physical and emotional wounds have faded with time, and her life is finally full of purpose and free from the pain of her past. But when she falls for her friend Charity's handsome and charming brother, Sean O'Connor, fear and shame threaten to destroy her. Could Sean and Emma ever have a future together? Or is Emma doomed...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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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Language
English
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"A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry--probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed...
Author
Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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Wealthy Australian flapper Phryne Fisher uncovers a wealth of family secrets when she agrees to search for Charles Freeman, her date at a Melbourne club who disappeared just after the murder of a man on the dance floor, and his brother Victor, a World War I veteran who has become something of a hermit since returning home.
Author
Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Russian
Description
In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Here, the complete set of all 14 The Basil and Josephine Stories -- one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works -- brought together under one cover.
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Paris in the Roaring Twenties, the tableau for the Lost Generation struggling to make sense of the world after the devastation of World War I. American newspaperman Joe Henry finds himself on the slick, cold winter streets of Paris. He's on the run, the primary suspect in the murder of his friend, fellow WWI veteran Wynton Gresham"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A tale based on the world of Coco Chanel follows the experiences of 1920s orphan Isabelle Varlet, who in early adulthood recovers from the death of her fiancé by developing her seamstress talents and struggling through the cutthroat world of high fashion.
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Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Thrust into an unforgiving world after a moment's frustration, Joyce Radway must learn to survive on her own. But when she unwittingly stumbles on a graveyard cover-up, she's both stunned and afraid. Joyce narrowly escapes, unaware that as she builds her new life she's being followed--by a man out to silence the only witness to his crime and another out to silence the guilt that plagues his heart. Will God's law protect Joyce when men are a law unto...
11) The evening road
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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...
12) Renting silence
Author
Series
Roaring Twenties mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Can 1920's script girl Jessie do Mary Pickford's bidding and uncover a real killer? When Jessie is asked by her idol, the famous actress Mary Pickford, if she can do some private investigating for her, Jessie reluctantly accepts. A girl was found stabbed in her bedroom with another woman lying unconscious on the floor next to her, a bloody knife in her hand. With no police investigation into the murder, it's up to Jessie to hone her amateur detective...
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Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old twins Emily and Michael Stewart figure out a way to dupe local children into believing that the spirit world is contacting them, their secret is found out by the community adults, who are dealing with grief in the aftermath of World War I.
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,...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Vera Abramowitsz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees, the lipsticked beauty dazzles, doing the Charleston in nightclubs and earning the nickname "Dollface." As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of two high rollers, a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entrée into a world filled...
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Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Performing architectural research in the spring of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her collaborator Lucy lock horns with their subject's tactless and womanizing owner and must sort through a long list of suspects when the man is spectacularly murdered.
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Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 19
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' 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...
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