Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the 1920s and 1930s.
1920s & '30s
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by Shubnum Khan
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous
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The Dance of the Dolls
by Lucy Ashe
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara Marionetta—with a terrifying climax set in the world of ballet in pre-war London.
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The Golden Gate: A Novel
by Amy Chua
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.
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A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
by Dean Jobb
Hardcover: Jun 2024
In this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the...
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
by Melissa L. Sevigny
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: May 2024
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
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The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
Paperback: Apr 2024
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for readers of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Donna Everhart, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeannette Walls, and Rita Mae Brown…
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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
by Hilary A. Hallett
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Apr 2024
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.
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Becoming Madam Secretary
by Stephanie Dray
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins.
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
by Ronald Drabkin
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who ...
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by Tia Williams
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician are irreversibly linked through the history, art, and magic of Harlem.
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