Jazz Age
O, Africa!
Micah and Izzy Grand are the stars of silent films in the year 1928. The descendants of Jewish immigrants, they…
The Beautiful American
Editors' choice
The Beautiful American is a work of fiction that follows an artists’ colony in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.…
After the Exhibition
An exhibition of church art sounds sedate, but murder soon intrudes into this cozy, 1920s English mystery. Set in London…
Ragtime Cowboys
In 1921, Charlie Siringo is past his prime, living under a leaky roof and writing books about the days he…
Love Comes Calling
Ellis Eaton, a young actress who dreams of Hollywood stardom, takes on her toughest role yet when she agrees to pose as a…
Empire Girls
Rose and Ivy Adams are heartbroken when their father dies in 1925. Shock follows grief when the young women learn…
Sheila
Sheila was born Sheila Chisholm, daughter of a wealthy Australian rancher, and came to England in 1913 to become successively…
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
In a not-so-quiet townhouse, somewhere in Manhattan, there are twelve Hamilton sisters, shut away from the world by an embarrassed…
The Visitors
In 1922, eleven-year-old Lucy Payne is sent to the invigorating climate of Egypt to aid in her recovery from a…
The Kept Girl
Kim Cooper’s The Kept Girl is based on the 1920s Los Angeles Blackburn cult, an odd group that scandalized L.A.…
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