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Series
Wicked city novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva “Gin” Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York’s most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket—and Anson’s mortal enemy—turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their short-lived honeymoon bliss...
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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,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Great War consumes all in its path, but for the assassins at Talon it's just another day on the job . . . until an old threat revives from the smoke of war-torn Europe to obliterate the world as they know it. After successfully rescuing Phillip from the clutches of the Order of the Rising Moon, Jack and Ivy Vale are relieved to end their months-long chase across Eastern Europe and recover from their wounds back at Talon headquarters. A homecoming--much...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
797 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas. In The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. The forty-three masterpieces range...
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Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three...
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Language
English
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Description
"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Luna--or depending on who's asking, Rose--is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen and...
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed....
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned
...13) The wicked city
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes their sleek SoHo loft for a studio in a quaint building in Greenwich Village. But her new refuge isn't quite what it seems. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up — laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream — even though...
14) Babylon
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From Damien Chazelle, BABYLON is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 5 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continues the saga of the Crawley family as they embark on a trip to the South of France to visit a villa that was mysteriously willed to Violet Crawley by an old acquaintance, while Downton Abbey is used by a film production company for filming a silent movie.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 381, 20 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this 1920s version of Sex and the City, Dorothy Parker and three other extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship as they help each other get over setbacks while jazz music flows through the air and bathtub gin fills their glasses"--
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], 1994
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table, home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
19) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel about a dashing enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
20) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On 1920s Long Island, a dashing enigmatic millionaire becomes obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
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