1898-1951

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1898-1951

Splendor

a Luxe Novel
2010
In 1900 New York City, fashionable debutante Diana Holland and married soldier Henry Schoonmaker flaunt the rules of society to be with one another.

Envy

a Luxe Novel
2009
A story of life and scandal among the wealthiest in Manhattan.

The diviners

2012
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Cursing Columbus

2009
In 1907, fourteen-year-old Raizel, who has lived in New York City for three years, and her brother Lemmel, newly-arrived, respond very differently to the challenges of living as Ukrainian Jews in the Lower East Side as Raizel works toward fitting in and getting ahead, while Lemmel joins a gang and lives on the streets.

All-night party

the women of bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930
2004
Examines the lives of over twenty women who were influential in the cultural revolution that swept Greenwich Village and Harlem in the early twentieth century, and opened doors for women into new areas of art and activism.

Beautiful days

(Bright Young Things Series #2)
2012
Letty, Cordelia, and Astrid pursue romance, adventure, and intrigue in New York during the Roaring Twenties.

The chaperone

2012
"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911

2004
Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and killed nearly one hundred and fifty workers, examining its causes and the reforms that came as a result of the tragedy.

Strings attached

2012
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

King of the cats

the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
1993
Recounts the life and political career of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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