Jazz Age
Jazz Girl: A Novel of Mary Lou Williams and Her Early Life
Mary Lou Williams was poor, black, and born to an alcoholic and abusive single mother. She was unfashionably dark-skinned, stuttered,…
Crossing the Tracks
In this debut novel, Barbara Stuber explores the meaning of family in Missouri in the summer of 1926. Fifteen-year-old Iris…
The Fountain
Set in the 1920s, this novel is a cross between a family saga and a romance. Comfortably middle class, farmer’s…
Banana Republican
Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby was a suave but crass braggart who considered others less intelligent to threaten his…
Sloane Hall
Sternberg’s dubious decision to set the plot of Jane Eyre in the US in the 1920s, with a gender switch,…
Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist: The Basilisk’s Lair
This is the second book in the Beastologist series, geared for emerging readers, and it’s just as charming as the…
Strange Images of Death
Commander Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard is faced with a curious problem as he motors through France in 1926. Joe,…
Moonshine
Zephyr Hollis is a thoroughly modern New York woman of the 1920s. She spends her days attending a variety of…
The Wettest County in the World
During the Prohibition era, moonshine flowed freely through the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, and few bootleggers were more productive,…
The Jewel Box
Editors' choice
Grace Rutherford is a pioneer. By day she is the first female copywriter at a stuffy advertising agency. By night,…
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