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The 1920s / by Wukovits, John F.,1944-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
Subjects: Nineteen twenties.;
© c2000., Greenhaven Press,
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Hotel Portofino. by Baker, Matt(Screenwriter),creator,screenwriter.; Wimpenny, Adam,television director.; Baines, Julie,1957-television producer.; McElhone, Natascha,1969-actor.; Akhurst, Lucy,1975-actor.; Binder, Louisa,actor.; Carling, Elizabeth,1967-actor.; Dench, Oliver,1992-actor.; Esposito, Pasquale,1963-actor.; Fasano, Rocco,1993-actor.; Frazer, Lily,1991-actor.; James, Adam,actor.; King, Imogen,1995-actor.; Morris, Olivia,actor.; Pecci, Daniele,actor.; Richelmy, Lorenzo,1990-actor.; Scott-Michael, Claude,actor.; Umbers, Mark,actor.; Zaman, Assad,actor.; Chancellor, Anna,actor.; Beta Film GmbH,presenter.; Eagle Eye Drama Limited,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.; ITV (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
DVD, region 1 NTSC, widescreen (16x9); stereo; [color]English SDH subtitles.Natascha McElhone, Lucy Akhurst, Louisa Binder, Elizabeth Carling, Oliver Dench, Pasquale Esposito, Rocco Fasano, Lily Frazer, Adam James, Imogen King, Olivia Morris, Daniele Pecci, Lorenzo Richelmy, Claude Scott-Michael, Mark Umbers, Assad Zaman, Anna Chancellor.TV rating: TV-14.Follows a British family who open a hotel for upper class travelers on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring '20s.Disc 1: Episodes 1-3 -- Disc 2: Episodes 4-6 -- Bonus video.Cinematography, Erol Zubcevic ; editor, Colin Sumsion, Natasha Wilkinson ; music, Stefano Cabrera.
Subjects: Television series.; Hotels; Nineteen twenties; Families; British;
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The last note of warning / by Schellman, Katharine,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjy7WqqkmPBHQx4Yf3g64y;
"Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found, if not love, then something like it with her bootlegger sweetheart, Leo, even if she can't quite forget the allure of the Nightingale's sultry owner, Honor Huxley. Then the husband of a wealthy client is discovered dead in his study, and Vivian was the last known person to see him alive. With the police and the press both eager to name a culprit in the high-profile case, she finds herself the primary murder suspect. She can't flee town without endangering the people she loves, but Vivian isn't the sort of girl to go down without a fight. She'll cash in every favor she has from the criminals she calls friends to prove she had no connection to the dead man. But she can't prove what isn't true. The more Vivian digs into the man's life, and as the police close in on her, the harder it is to avoid the truth: someone she knows wanted him dead. And the best way to get away with murder is to set up a girl like Vivian to take the fall"--
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Queer fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Nightclubs; Nineteen twenties; Prohibition;
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Saving Susy Sweetchild / by Hambly, Barbara,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqBmvbWVWYCBdRDHXwQv3;
"July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new role: doctoring film scenarios whenever the regular scenarist is overwhelmed with work, which seems to be most of the time. Shoots for the Western movie Our Tiny Miracle are in full swing, with little seven-year-old Susy Sweetchild playing the lead and acting most professionally. Maybe too professionally, Emma thinks, shocked to the core when the child star is nearly killed in a stunt scene and her mother--former screen siren Selina Sutton--seems only to care that Susy gets the job done. But Emma's concerns only worsen when news reaches her that Susy and her mother have been kidnapped. The ransom note says to keep the cops out of it, so it's up to Emma and Kitty to find them before the unthinkable happens and Emma is forced to rewrite Our Tiny Miracle with a far more tragic ending..." -- Amazon.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Nineteen twenties; Widows; Actresses; Motion picture plays; Child actors; Kidnapping;
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The Jazz Age : a historical exploration of literature / by De Roche, Linda,author.; Gale (Firm);
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis, 1922) -- 2. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925) -- 3. Gentlemen prefer blondes (Anita Loos, 1925) -- 4. The sun also rises (Ernest Hemingway, 1926) -- 5. Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929).This reference to the "Jazz Age"--the period that began after the First World War and ended with the stock market crash of 1929--digs into the cultural, historical, and literary contexts of the era. It examines the writing of the time to look beyond the common conceptions of the Roaring Twenties and instead reflect on the era's complexities and contradictions, including how gender and race influenced social mores.Description based on print version record.
Subjects: American literature; Nineteen twenties.; Jazz in literature.; Modernism (Aesthetics);
On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/9781610696685/GVRL?u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald / by Fitzgerald, F. Scott(Francis Scott),1896-1940.; Bruccoli, Matthew J.(Matthew Joseph),1931-2008.;
Head and shoulders -- Bernice bobs her hair -- The ice palace -- The offshore pirate -- May Day -- The jelly-bean -- The curious case of Benjamin Button -- The diamond as big as the Ritz -- Winter dreams -- Dice, brassknuckles & guitar -- Absolution -- Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les -- "The sensible thing" -- Love in the night -- The rich boy -- Jacob's ladder -- A short trip home -- The bowl -- The captured shadow -- Basil and Cleopatra -- The last of the belles -- Majesty -- At your age -- The swimmers -- Two wrongs -- First blood -- Emotional bankruptcy -- The bridal party -- One trip abroad -- The hotel child -- Babylon revisited -- A new leaf -- A freeze-out -- Six of one-- -- What a handsome pair! -- Crazy Sunday -- More than just a house -- Afternoon of an author -- Financing Finnegan -- The lost decade -- "Boil some water--lots of it" -- Last kiss -- Dearly beloved.
Subjects: Nineteen twenties; Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, 1896-1940.; Nouvelle.;
© 2003., Scribner,
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The dressmakers of Prospect Heights : a novel / by Zeldis, Kitty,author.;
"For fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Joanna Goodman, a mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Not Our Kind about three women in post-World War I New York City and the secrets they hold. Brooklyn 1919. As New York City continues to reel from the losses of both World War I and the deadly influenza epidemic, the lives of three very different women are about to take an unexpected turn. Recently arrived from New Orleans, Beatrice is trying to establish her dress shop with help from Alice, a teenaged orphan she brought north with her, while their neighbor, newlywed Catherine, longs for a baby she cannot seem to conceive. When Bea befriends Catherine and the two start to become close, Alice feels left out of their bond. In her search for a family of her own, she'll set into motion a series of events that will make all three women confront painful secrets from the past in order to envision a better future. Moving from the bustling streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan to late 19th century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans, Two Daughters is a story of female friendship, the families we are born into and the families we make, and how some bonds can be tested but never broken"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women; Orphans; Dressmaking; Female friendship; Family secrets; Nineteen twenties;
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The fate of a flapper : a mystery / by Calkins, Susanna,author.;
"A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room, the flirtatious jazz pianist and the brooding photographer-all overseen by the club's imposing owner, Signora Castallazzo. But the staff buzzes with whispers about Gina's predecessor, who died under mysterious circumstances, and the photographer, Marty, warns her to be careful. When Marty is brutally murdered, with Gina as the only witness, she's determined to track down his killer. What secrets did Marty capture on his camera - and who would do anything to destroy it? As Gina searches for answers, she's pulled deeper into the shadowy truths hiding behind the Third Door"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Young women; Nineteen twenties; Bars (Drinking establishments); Secrecy; Murder victims; Murder;
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The wicked city / by Williams, Beatriz.;
Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.1998: Discovering her banker husband has a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes to Greenwich Village. Her musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when noise strikes up-- laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the building hosted one of the city's most notorious speakeasies. 1924: Flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly is a regular at the Christopher Club. Caught up in a raid, Gin strikes a bargain with Revenue agent Oliver Anson to catch her stepfather, Duke Kelly, one of Appalachia's most notorious bootleggers.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Socialites; Nineteen twenties; Haunted places;
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Murder at the Mena House / by Neubauer, Erica Ruth,1979-author.;
"Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel--an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows ... Egypt, 1926. Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won't be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie's best efforts at meddling with her love life, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane's plans to remain cool and indifferent become ancient history in the company of Mr. Redvers, a roguish banker she can't quite figure out ... While the Mena House has its share of charming guests, Anna Stainton isn't one of them. The beautiful socialite makes it clear that she won't share the spotlight with anyone--especially Jane. But Jane soon becomes the center of attention when she's the one standing over her unintentional rival's dead body. Now, with her innocence at stake in a foreign country, Jane must determine who can be trusted, and who had motive to commit a brutal murder. Between Aunt Millie's unusual new acquaintances, a smarmy playboy with an off-putting smile, and the enigmatic Mr. Redvers, someone has too many secrets. Can Jane excavate the horrible truth before her future falls to ruin in Cairo ... and the body count rises like the desert heat?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Americans; Hotels; Widows; Murder; Socialites; Nineteen twenties;
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