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261) Paris Cat
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"A sassy cat from the back alleys of Paris believes she is quite different to the rest of the rabble. She can do anything she sets her mind to--even if others don't think so. Leaving her cat family behind, she sets off to explore Paris. Cat meets legendary singer Edith Piaf, creates her own stunning designs at a high-fashion atelier, and dances with the infamous dancer Josephine Baker and her cheetah. But is this the life she really wants? What about...
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" ... the story of the changes that came to America ... in the years between the two World Wars. At first, as the 1920's dawn, there is the ultraconservatism that rejects Wilson's League of Nations, amends the Constitution to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages, suspects every immigrant of being a Red, and places TWK (meaning Trade With the Klan) stickers in merchant-members' shop windows. Then Henry Ford mass-produces flivvers that cost as little...
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¿Hasta dónde te puede llevar una idea? En la década de 1920, una época de profundos cambios sociales, la protagonista dará un giro a su vida y vivirá una apasionante aventura a la conquista de sus sueños. Barcelona, 1928. Anna Expósito es una joven huérfana que ha crecido en la Casa de la Misericordia. Su afición por el cine, las revistas femeninas y la cosmética han hecho de ella una muchacha independiente que quiere disfrutar de la vida....
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One must never pick up a stray piece of paper at the Algonquin Round Table -- it might be the check. But when second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin slips Dorothy Parker an envelope, only later does she discover it's a suicide note: MacGuffin has leapt to his death from the Brooklyn Bridge!
267) The great Gatsby
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"This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel and was made before the book became considered an American classic....
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Heathcliff Lennox volume 7
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"Murder, mystery and a dog of distinction. Heathcliff Lennox investigates. Ladies man, dandy, charming rogue, thief. Montague Morgan has a buccaneering reputation and he doesn't give a damn--until he falls in love. He has a plan, he needs money and he knows how to get it. He and his lover conspire to escape to exotic lands with stolen gold. But the gold belongs to dangerous people and plans can go awry. Morgan disappears, has he escaped, or has he...
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"In 1928, Chicago rocks to the rhythm of the Jazz Age, and Prohibition is in full swing. Small-town girl Marjorie Corrigan, visiting the city for the first time, has sworn that coffee's the strongest drink that will pass her lips. But her quiet, orderly life turns topsy-turvy when she spots her high school sweetheart--presumed killed in the Great War-- alive and well in a train station. Suddenly everything is up for grabs. Although the stranger...
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The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance. In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand...
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"Jazz Age Fashion focuses on women's clothing of the period, although not exclusively, whilst the introductory text will examine the social, political and cultural influences of the period setting into context the fashion of the period. Characterized by exuberance and optimism, the jazz age was a symptom of the end of the Great War and the birth of America as a new world power. It was a period of unprecedented social change for women who were, for...
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The roaring twenties -- a time for glamour, frivolity and freedom for women. But for Evelyn Lockhart, a small-town girl who is determined to become one of the first female doctors, it means turning her back on her family and the only life she's ever known. In a desperate attempt to support herself through Columbia University's medical school, Evie auditions for the infamous late-night Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. But if she gets the part, what will...
275) A menacing luster
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At the tail end of the Jazz Age, Chicago experienced everything from Prohibition and flappers to the grip of Al Capone and the 1929 stock market crash. Yet amidst such extremes, a quiet but insidious threat masqueraded as a beacon of hope; the discovery of radium. Young women, drawn by the lustrous allure of the magical element, willingly sought out employment in factories, only to have their light extinguished. Now imagine not only reading about...
276) Chicago
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"Mike Hodge, un veterano de la Gran Guerra, es periodista del Chicago Tribune durante los violentos años veinte. Mientras investiga una muerte relacionada con el crimen organizado, la mujer de la que está enamorado es asesinada. Para Mike, averiguar quién la ha matado se convierte en una cuestión personal y no le importan las consecuencias que esto puede acarrear. Chicago, un thriller contundente y enrevesado ambientado en la mafiosa Ciudad de...
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Tommy and Evelyn Christie mystery volume 01
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"Evelyn Christie has resigned herself to another long, boring weekend at Hessleham Hall, the home of her husband, Tommy's, family. However, it turns out to be anything but dull when his uncle, the Earl of Northmoor, is shockingly murdered! Evelyn must use all of her sleuthing knowledge, gained whilst she was a member of the Police force during the war, to find out who the murderer is before the bungling local police force decide the Earl was bumped...
278) Blood oath
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1927. New York. The peak of Prohibition. Hazel Crenshaw just wants to be left alone, to tend to her farm, to care for her younger sister, and to run her business. But her business is inescapably tangled up with the New York gangs that will eventually coalesce into the mafia, and a new, unknown partner. When the Crenshaw farm is attacked, Hazel must not only defend her home, she must cope with the realization that her flirtation with the other side...
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Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack.
280) The world is a wedding: in which the unexpected nature of reality surprises Mister Wilfred Price
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This comedy of manners follows newlyweds Wilfred Price and Flora Myffanwy as they navigate married life, while Wilfred and his first wife, Grace, try to manage secrets from their shared past.
1926, Wales. Wilfred Price is married to Flora Myfanwy and trying to be the perfect husband. His efforts only intensify when he learns that Flora is expecting. But something doesn't feel right to Flora: she doesn't feel at home. Meanwhile Grace-- to whom Wilfred...