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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.
3) 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
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:...
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,...
7) Prohibition
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Offers multiple perspectives on momentous events. This volume introduces and provides a brief overview of the major factors that led to the Prohibition era, which banned the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States in 1920.
10) Live by night
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A group of gangsters from Boston move to Florida during the Prohibition era, where they face competition including the Ku Klux Klan.
12) High on a hill
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
14) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1208
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
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