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1) By starlight
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While running an illegal speakeasy in Colton, Montana during the Great Depression, Maddy Aldridge must keep her secret from Jack Rucker, an ex-boyfriend who broke her heart and who is now a Prohibition agent working undercover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town,...
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
9) The stills
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a teen's near death from a tainted batch of moonshine, Sheriff Lily Ross and expert distiller Marvena Whitcomb confront a nemesis bootlegger and Lily's prohibitionist brother-in-law to protect the citizens of their 1927 Ohio community.
10) A criminal magic
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After the prohibition of sorcery with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, two young sorcerers experiment with magic and mobsters in 1920s Washington, D.C., when a new elixir is created that turns their lives upside down.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1924 New York, Vivian, whose days are filled with drudgery, escapes to the Nightingale, a secret dance club, until a dead body and police raid traps her between the city’s wealthy and New York’s underground where lives of the poor are considered disposable, including Vivian’s own.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence and is rescued by former love Lars, who helps her seek a cure and outmaneuver corrupt authorities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While working at the Nightingale, a speakeasy in 1924 New York, Vivian investigates the murder of her best friend Bea’s Uncle Pearlie, the doorman at the Nightingale who was poisoned to death, and discovers a link to a mysterious blackmailer targeting her poorest neighbors.
Author
Series
Gangster volume 1
Publisher
Betty Brandt Passick
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Marshal Sweeney Delaney was just a rookie in his small Iowa town when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. Prohibition threw the whole nation into a tailspin. Even teetotaling Christians jumped on the bandwagon and began making panther piss in a still behind the barn. Then, a Chicago gangster came to town. His name: Louie La Cava. Sweeney followed the adage: Keep your friends close; your enemies closer. Two old friends are part of his inner circle:...
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