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Cavendon Hall: A Novel

Barbara Taylor Bradford - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife and their six children. Walter Swann, the premier male of the Swann family, is valet to the earl. His wife Alice, a clever...
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Saint Mazie: A Novel

Jami Attenberg - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

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 Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits...
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In the Full Light of the Sun

Clare Clark - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal - involving newly discovered van Goghs - that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power.Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy...
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The Paragon Hotel

LYNDSAY FAYE - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The new and exciting historical thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and Gods of Gotham, which follows Alice "Nobody" from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's the Paragon Hotel.The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country...
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I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories

F Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A collection including the last complete unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic American writer of The Great Gatsby who is more widely read today than ever.I'd Die For You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Library of America
Format: Print book

At the outset of what he called "the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. This Library of America...
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York,...
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Empire Girls

Suzanne Hayes - Harlequin MIRA
Format: Print book

The critically acclaimed authors of I'll Be Seeing You return with a riveting tale of two sisters, set in the intoxicating world of New York City during the Roaring Twenties. Ivy and Rose Adams may be sisters, but they're nothing alike. Rose, the eldest, is the responsible one, while Ivy is spirited...
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The Evening Road

LAIRD HUNT - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

Two women, two directions: one dark, extraordinary day.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...
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Villa America: A Novel

Liza Klaussmann - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society...
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Bandbox: A Novel

Thomas Mallon

From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited
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The Necklace: A Novel

Claire McMillan - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

Two generations of Quincy women - a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and a young lawyer - bound by a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace.Always the black sheep of the tight-knit Quincy clan, Nell is cautious when she's summoned to the elegantly shabby family manor after her great aunt...
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West of Sunset

Stewart O'Nan - Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in HollywoodLook out for City of Secrets coming from Viking on April 26, 2016 In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor...
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King Zeno: A Novel

Nathaniel Rich - MCD
Format: Hardcover

New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge -- and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.From one of the most inventive...
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The Seven Sisters: A Novel

Lucinda Riley - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a major new series from the #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis" - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told...
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The Pearl Sister: Book Four

Lucinda Riley - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home.CeCe D'Aplise has always...
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The Storm Sister: A Novel

Lucinda Riley - Atria Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

Gathered at their childhood home to mourn their father's death, Ally D'Aplise and her five adoptive sisters receive tantalizing clues to their distinct heritages. Ally soon finds herself in Norway where she begins to make sense of her elusive past in the second part of an epic new series...
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The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.... A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced...
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Tiffany Blues: A Novel

M J Rose - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"A lush, romantic historical mystery...a heroine to root for." - Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale "Fascinating ... an enchanting glimpse of Jazz Age New York." - Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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Leaving Lucy Pear

Anna Solomon - Viking
Format: Print book

"From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon's spell." - Sue Monk KiddChosen as a must-read book for summer 2016 by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPageSet in 1920s New England,...
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Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Deb Spera - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great DepressionIt's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother...
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A Certain Age: A Novel

Beatriz Williams - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom...
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The Wicked City: A Novel

Beatriz Williams - William Morrow
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams recreates the New York City of A Certain Age in this deliciously spicy adventure that mixes past and present and centers on a Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper, and a debonair Princetonian...
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A Hope Undaunted: A Novel

Julie Lessman - Revell
Format: Paperback

The 1920s are drawing to a close, and feisty Katie O'Connor is the epitome of the new woman smart and sassy with goals for her future that include the perfect husband and a challenging career in law. Her boyfriend Jack fits all of her criteria for a husband good looking, well connected,...
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A Flying Affair: A Novel

Carla Stewart - Faithwords
Format: Paperback

Ever since Mittie Humphreys agreed to join dashing barnstorming pilot Ames for a joyride in his airplane, her lifelong love of horses has been surpassed by one thing--a longing for the skies. It seems she's not the only one--with Charles Lindbergh making his victory tour in the Spirit...
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City of Flickering Light

Juliette Fay - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print

Juliette Fay--"one of the best authors of women's fiction" (Library Journal) --transports us back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the raucous Roaring Twenties, as three friends struggle to earn their places among the stars of the silent screen--perfect for fans of La La Land...
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Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess: Blotto, Twinks #2

Simon Brett - Felony & Mayhem
Format: Paperback

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Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

Leslie S. Klinger - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting collection of five of the most famous crime novels of the 1920s, presenting anew some of the most admired authors of the era -- with insightful annotations by the Edgar-winning anthologist Leslie S. Klinger. American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance...
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Anthem for Doomed Youth: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Carola Dunn - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London—each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the lead detective, is immediately given two urgent orders...
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Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, No. 17)

Carola Dunn - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle)...
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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Sujata Massey - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric...
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The Satapur Moonstone

SUJATA MASSEY - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic...
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The Widows

JESS MONTGOMERY - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

"The Widows kept me on the edge of my seat. Montgomery is a masterful storyteller." -- Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize-Finalist The Bright ForeverKinship, Ohio, 1924: When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel Ross, the town's widely respected...
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New York Nocturne: The Return of Miss Lizzie

Walter Satterthwait - Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of the Joshua Croft series delivers a sparkling follow-up that reunites the murder mystery-solving duo of Lizzie Borden and Amanda Burton in Jazz Age New York Sixteen-year-old Amanda is spending the summer with her suave and easygoing uncle John at the Dakota Apartments,...
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