prohibition

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Temperance and prohibition

the movement to pass anti-liquor laws in America
2006
A short study of the Temperance Movement of the early twentieth century, examining efforts to pass anti-liquor laws and Prohibition.

Diva

2012
When Marcus leaves Clara Knowles for another girl, Clara sinks into unhappiness and Lorraine Dyer tries to save Marcus from a loveless marriage, while their fellow flapper, Gloria Carmody, is hiding a deadly secret while living among socialites at Forrest Hamilton's Long Island villa.

Vixen

2011
In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.

Ingenue

2012
Unaware that a hired killer has followed them from Chicago, three eighteen-year-old flappers relocate to separate sections of New York City where their lives still revolve around speakeasies and rich boyfriends.

Moonshiner's son

1993
As he works with his father making moonshine in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, twelve-year-old Tom learns about hard work and honesty.

Ingenue

2011
Unaware that a hired killer has followed them from Chicago, three eighteen-year-old flappers relocate to separate sections of New York City where their lives still revolve around speakeasies and rich boyfriends.

7,000 clams

a novel
2004
Frank Hearn, a down-on-his-luck bootlegger, hunts down a double-crossing government thief who stole a shipment of top-quality booze, but when he discovers the thief has a $7,000 IOU from Babe Ruth, Frank develops a plan to take the money and make a better life for himself.

Ingenue

The Flappers Series # 2
2011
Unaware that a hired killer has followed them from Chicago, three eighteen-year-old flappers relocate to separate sections of New York City where their lives still revolve around speakeasies and rich boyfriends.

Al Capone and his gang

1999
The life of one of America's most infamous and powerful gangsters serves as a model for understanding gangster culture. Humorously illustrated.

Live by night

2012
In 1926, during 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.

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