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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 6
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English
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When a telephone switchboard operator with a wild reputation is murdered, the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club sort out rumors from fact to identify the killer.
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 5
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English
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"It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly caught short on cash and everyone is in a panic. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders--including Alvin Duffy, the bank's new vice president--hatch a plan...
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Thirteen-year-old Billy Knight leaves home to 'ride the rails' across Canada during the 1930s. His encounters with a wide cast of characters - including fellow drifters and grifters, kid gangs, crooks, idealists, ragtag philosophers, and railroad bulls, as well as everyday folk simply trying to get by - provide much more than he bargained for. And for the first time, he realizes that riding the rails is not just an adventure. It also speaks to the...
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Recreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill weaves a story of honor, family, and one man's simple courage that no reader will soon forget.
It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can't...
It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can't...
5) A beauty
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds herself living alone. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. Moving and mysterious, a captivating tale of a woman who, without intending to, touched many lives, and sometimes alters them forever.
6) Jezebel
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Vintage Books
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English
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A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the author of "David Golder" and "Suite Francaise". Print run 20,000.
7) The 1930s
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Weigl
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IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman-and a nation-struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is...
9) Hit for six
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Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
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English
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1935. Amateur cricketer Evelyn Fairhope meets her match when she catches the eye of Jack Cambridge, the local earl's handsome young chauffeur. But she soon finds herself pitched into a series of events that test their growing relationship. There's a family secret, a robbery, and the arrival of a lady's maid who's competing for Jack's affections. Not to mention her father's garage business starting to struggle. Evelyn and Jack are in for a bumpy ride....
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 4
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English
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In the midst of the Depression, folks need a lift. The Texas Star herself, Miss Lily Dare, is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling, Alabama. Unfortunately, she's also bringing a whole lot of trouble. As the Texas Star barnstorms into town, Liz Lacy and Verna Tidwell offer to help bring down a saboteur who may be propelled by revenge. Print run 30,000.
When the Texas Star herself--aviatrix Miss Lily Dare, the fastest woman in the world--is...
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English
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A dark historical crime novel set in Glasgow, 1932. A city still recovering from the Great War; split by religious division and swarming with razor gangs. When Charles Geddes, son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest ship builders, is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, his beautiful widow Isla Lockhart asks for Inspector James Dreghorn to lead the murder case. Dreghorn has a troubled history with the powerful Lockhart family...
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English
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While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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English
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In 1936, Bluet is the last of the Kentucky Blues. In the dusty Appalachian hills of Troublesome Creek, nineteen and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for "respectability" and a marriage bed. Instead, she joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading material to the poor hill communities of Eastern Kentucky.
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
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English
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From the bestselling author of the China Bayles mysteries - a brand-new series about some spunky lady sleuths in Depression-era Alabama, The Darling Dahlias. Print run 40,000.
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English
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A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and asingle-minded widow.
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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
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English
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"The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot--the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket--returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930. "We Agatha Christie fans read her stories--and particularly her Poirot novels--because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Sophie...
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It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while...
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Investigating the disappearance of an American girl who may be one of several abductees linked to a series of murders, Harris Stuyvesant, a former officer of the American Bureau of Investigation, follows clues to an American expat community in 1929 Paris, where he encounters dangerous adversaries and famous historical artists.
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