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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
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Series
Discreet Retrieval Agency mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibition-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery. After all, their client, Lord Sudley, promises them a handsome paycheck, and the gin and tonics will be free. But no sooner do they arrive at Montgomery Hall than Rudy is shot dead with a houseful...
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Blood bond series volume 14
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English
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When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful daughter. Trouble is, while Matt is falling hard, Sam is being recruited by a sheriff who happens to have a lovely daughter of his own What happens when you mix 200-proof corn liquor with intoxicating women...
Author
Series
Discreet Retrieval Agency mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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"31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune...or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile of debt. Pretty soon, Lola and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta, are reduced to hiding out in the secret love nest Alfie kept in New York City. But when rent...
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Series
Last call at the Nightingale volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...
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English
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Prohibition: Booze and blood run across the snows of northern Montana. Wolf Point is a battle ground for control of bootleg booze from Canada. The shooting deaths of the police chief and sheriff, bank robbery and mayhem lead to the resignation of the entire police force. When the new police chief brings his own force from the east problems escalate. Is the new chief head of a bootleg gang? And is temporary sheriff Andy Larson up for the challenge?...
9) Public enemy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in Prohibition-era urban America" -- Wikipedia.
10) Among wolves
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two religious ladies, who witnessed brutal murders, are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.
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English
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"Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Brief History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair...
13) By starlight
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English
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"In early 1930s Montana, in the small town of Colton, Maddy Aldridge struggles to make ends meet during the Great Depression. With her mother long dead, her stubborn younger sister fighting her at every turn, and her father's arthritis deteriorating so badly that she has to run the family store alone, her desperation grows by the day. Enter Jeffers Grimm with a proposition too great for her to turn down: open an illegal speakeasy in the mercantile's...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
America's obsession with its own history has resulted in innumerable bestsellers. Like baseball and the Civil War, Prohibition is one of the grand American topics, and now it is the subject of Daniel Okrent's masterful, prize-worthy tour de force. Last Call is a narrative history of one of the most puzzling and most exciting eras in American history, the years 1920 to 1933, when the Constitution was amended to restrict human social behavior. Beginning...
15) Revelle
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English
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With Prohibition threatening their livelihood, Luxe Revelle, the star of her family's fantastical show, agrees to pose as the girlfriend of the son of Charmant's wealthiest family and finds herself playing a dangerous game when she meets the boy who is her destiny.
16) The stills
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Series
Kinship novels volume 3
Language
English
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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.
17) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. Raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality.
19) Live by night
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Series
Coughlin novels volume 2
Language
English
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In 1926, during the 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. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prohibition - Episode 3: A Nation of Hypocrites In the mid 1920s, an unprecedented winning streak continues on Wall Street, and it feels to many like the good times will go on forever. Americans during the Jazz Age, writes F. Scott Fitzgerald, are "a whole race gone hedonistic, deciding on pleasure." Prohibition, with its moralistic underpinnings, begins to feel anachronistic at best. In Episode 3, A Nation of Hypocrites, support for the law diminishes...
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