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Author
Series
Andy Larson mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Andy Larson, wanting to get away from the bootleg crime and corruption of prohibition in North Dakota, moves to Wolf Point, Montana, to take on an easy job as a deputy sheriff.
22) Black duck
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007, 2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Years later, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
Author
Series
Jersey Leo novels volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider--an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father-a former boxing champ with his own secrets-disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters....
24) Lawless
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
America's obsession with its own history has resulted in innumerable bestsellers. Like baseball and the Civil War, Prohibition is one of the grand American topics, and now it is the subject of Daniel Okrent's masterful, prize-worthy tour de force. Last Call is a narrative history of one of the most puzzling and most exciting eras in American history, the years 1920 to 1933, when the Constitution was amended to restrict human social behavior. Beginning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...
27) Disappearances
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Just before the end of Prohibition, Quebec Bill Bohomme and his son, Wild Bill, try to smuggle whiskey out of Canada into Vermont in order to save the family farm.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
With hills studded with whiskey stills and cisterns brimming over with beer, Glen Rose operated in concerted defiance of one of Prohibition's chief champions, Governor Pat Neff. In 1923, Neff dispatched Texas Rangers and undercover agents to do the job of the unwilling local law enforcement. More than fifty men were arrested, including the sheriff and the county prosecutor. Outraged, the town's most prominent citizens stalked the Rangers and their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner, Vivian can lose herself in...
30) The stills
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to turn a blind eye when it comes to stills in the area. But when thirteen-year-old Jebediah Ranklin almost dies after drinking tainted moonshine, Lily knows that someone has gone too far, and - with the help of organizer and moonshiner Marvena Whitcomb - is determined to find out who. But then, Lily's nemesis, the...
31) The bootlegger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear...
34) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Running moonshine liquor during the prohibition years, a notorious trio of brothers continues their illicit business after Prohibition and plays a central role in a violent conspiracy trial, a story that is investigated in 1935 by a magazine journalist.
38) Live by night
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A group of gangsters from Boston move to Florida during the Prohibition era, where they face competition including the Ku Klux Klan.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
40) Prohibition
Author
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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