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Only yesterday
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Frederick Lewis Allen |
A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh… |
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The Bloody Tower (Daisy Dalrymple #16)
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Carola Dunn |
In April of 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, now mother to two-year-old twins, has decided to resume her journalistic career, and for her first piece she's agreed to write about the Tow… |
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Capital of the world
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David Wallace (multiple authors with this name) |
Looks at the history of nineteen twenties New York City through anecdotes and profiles of people who personified the decade, including Lucky Luciano, Jimmy Walker, Polly Adler, Arturo Toscanini, Alex… |
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The 1920s
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Michael Shally-Jensen |
Defining Documents offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in American history, with primary source documents, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive lesson plans… |
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Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple #17)
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Carola Dunn |
In September 1925, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and family of new twins move into a house inherited by husband DCI Alec Fletcher on the outskirts of London, near Hamstead Heath. When a dead body appears … |
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Saint Mazie
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Jami Attenberg |
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 Pro… |
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The Other Typist
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Suzanne Rindell |
A typist in a New York City Police Department precinct, Rose is like a high priestess. Confessions are her job. It is 1923, and while she may hear every detail about shootings, knifings, and murders,… |
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Modern America: the dazzling twenties
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Edmund Lindop |
A survey of the political, social, and cultural events and changes during the decade following World War I. |
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America in the 1920s
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Edmund Lindop |
Outlines life in the United States in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the stock market crash, and advances in technology and entertainment such as the first radios and first talking movies. |
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A respectable woman
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Susanna Bavin |
"After losing her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing she can recapture a sense of family with him. But five years on, she is just another back-street housewife… |
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Murder of a movie star
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L.B. Hathaway |
As London bakes during a heatwave, Posie Parker is all alone, feeling as thundery as the storm clouds above. But when she's summoned to Worton Hall, the fashionable film studios, Posie finds her hand… |
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A deadly measure of brimstone
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Catriona McPherson |
"Dandy and the whole Gilver clan travel to a spa town for a weekend of relaxation which is quickly interrupted by a slew of mysterious-- and deadly--events. The men of the Gilver family have come dow… |
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1920s
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Gail Stewart |
History, trivia, and fun through photographs and articles present life in the United States between 1920 and 1929. |
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Live by Night
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Dennis Lehane |
Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, his task is to tie her up while his accomplices loot the bank she works in. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and… |
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The 1920s
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Stephen Feinstein |
"Discusses the decade 1920-1929 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"-- |
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Butchertown
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Thomas Burchfield |
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Bobbed hair and bathtub gin
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Marion Meade |
In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--who… |
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Contrasting decades, the 1920's and 1930's
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D. Duane Cummins |
Discusses the economic prosperity and normalcy of the 1920's, the Depression, and President Roosevelt's New Deal and its legacy. |
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Zelda
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Nancy Milford |
A biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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The adventures of Michael MacInnes
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Jeff Carney |
In 1924, high school junior Michael MacInnes, a free-thinking poet and orphaned scholarship student, stirs up trouble when he challenges the rules and traditions of his prep school. |
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