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Capital of the world Capital of the world 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… OL16495666W
This is Who We Were This is Who We Were Scott Derks This Is Who We Were: In The 1920s is an offspring of our 13-volume Working Americans series. This new title is devoted to one decade -- the 1920s. It represents all classes, dozens of occupations, an… OL17075491W
Saint Mazie Saint Mazie 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… OL17310308W
The Other Typist The Other Typist 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,… OL17356555W
Born of illusion Born of illusion Teri J. Brown "Set in 1920s New York City, this is the story of budding magician Anna Van Housen, who has spent her whole life playing sidekick to her faux-medium mother--and trying to hide the fact the she actual… OL17862711W
Benedict Hall Benedict Hall Cate Campbell Seattle in 1920 is a city in flux. Horse-drawn carriages share the cobblestone streets with newfangled motor cars. Modern girls bob their hair and show their ankles, cafes defy Prohibition by serving… OL17913887W
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age Alison Morretta Examines the major works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a primary focus on the 1920s and how it affected his writing. OL17933820W
Murder in disguise Murder in disguise Mary Miley "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 mov… OL19715563W
Uspeshnoe pokorenie mira Uspeshnoe pokorenie mira F. Scott Fitzgerald 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… OL19968644W
Edge of the Fall, The Edge of the Fall, The Kate Williams In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives. Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second … OL20864752W
The nightingale's nest The nightingale's nest Sarah Harrison Left a widow by the Great War, Pamela goes to work for the Jarvises, a couple whose house is a mecca for artists. It is here the she meets John Ashe, &, although she tries to keep her distance from h… OL24190733W
Bobbed hair and bathtub gin Bobbed hair and bathtub gin 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… OL2669261W
An angel's redemption An angel's redemption Annalisa Russo "Michael Vincente Cavelli would have been happy as a farmer. Instead, he has a lot on his plate. For starters, he's the only rational Cavelli male, the one who inherited the mantle of patriarch at a … OL28959727W
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memor… OL468384W
The colonel's tale The colonel's tale S. H. Baker Marshall's Bayou Police Chief Dassas Cormier lands in the middle of a dangerous puzzle when he goes to Lake Charles to fetch his sister Coralee home for Thanksgiving in 1924. And why does so much of … OL9255723W