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Only yesterday Only yesterday 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… OL1212453W
The Bloody Tower (Daisy Dalrymple #16) The Bloody Tower (Daisy Dalrymple #16) 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… OL15834929W
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
The 1920s The 1920s Michael Shally-Jensen Defining Documents offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in American history, with primary source documents, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive lesson plans… OL17101289W
Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple #17) Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple #17) 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 … OL17287W
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
Modern America: the dazzling twenties Modern America: the dazzling twenties Edmund Lindop A survey of the political, social, and cultural events and changes during the decade following World War I. OL1851279W
America in the 1920s America in the 1920s 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. OL1851299W
A respectable woman A respectable woman 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… OL19752553W
Murder of a movie star Murder of a movie star 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… OL19831415W
A deadly measure of brimstone A deadly measure of brimstone 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… OL19989264W
1920s 1920s Gail Stewart History, trivia, and fun through photographs and articles present life in the United States between 1920 and 1929. OL20535847W
Live by Night Live by Night 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… OL20879149W
The 1920s The 1920s Stephen Feinstein "Discusses the decade 1920-1929 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"-- OL22315515W
Butchertown Butchertown Thomas Burchfield pages ; cm OL24703800W
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
Contrasting decades, the 1920's and 1930's Contrasting decades, the 1920's and 1930's D. Duane Cummins Discusses the economic prosperity and normalcy of the 1920's, the Depression, and President Roosevelt's New Deal and its legacy. OL4355155W
Zelda Zelda Nancy Milford A biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald OL5609183W
The adventures of Michael MacInnes The adventures of Michael MacInnes 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. OL5734429W
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