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Author : Nora Janssen Seton
Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Athletic clubs
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Book Rating : 664/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Briar Club-- for the Purpose of Innocent Sports by : Nora Janssen Seton
Download or read book The Briar Club-- for the Purpose of Innocent Sports written by Nora Janssen Seton. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Quinn
Release : 2024-07-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Briar Club by : Kate Quinn
Download or read book The Briar Club written by Kate Quinn. This book was released on 2024-07-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst? Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test. A beautiful, foil cover, first edition.
Author : William Kent Krueger
Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 856/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ordinary Grace by : William Kent Krueger
Download or read book Ordinary Grace written by William Kent Krueger. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
Author : Jeffrey Gusfield
Release : 2012-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 956/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deadly Valentines by : Jeffrey Gusfield
Download or read book Deadly Valentines written by Jeffrey Gusfield. This book was released on 2012-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &“An engrossing look inside Al Capone's murderous ranks.&” &–Kirkus Almost before the gunsmoke from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre cleared, Chicago police had a suspect: &“Machine Gun&” Jack McGurn. They just couldn't find him. But two weeks later police found McGurn and his paramour, Louise May Rolfe, holed up at the Stevens Hotel. Both claimed they were in bed on the morning of the shootings, a titillating alibi that grabbed the public's attention and never let go. Chicago Valentines is one of the most outrageous stories of the Capone era, a twin biography of a couple who defined the extremes and excesses of the Prohibition era in America. McGurn was a prizefighter, professional-level golfer, and the ultimate urban predator and hit man who put the iron in Al Capone's muscle. Rolfe, a beautiful blond dancer and libertine, was the epitome of fashion, rebellion, and wild abandon in a decade that shocked and roared. Every newspaper in the country followed their ongoing story. They were the most spellbinding subject of the new jazz subculture, an unforgettable duo who grabbed headlines and defined the exciting gangland world of 1920s Chicago. The story of Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, two lovers caught in history's spotlight, is more fascinating than any fiction. They were the prototypes for eighty years of gangster literature and cinema, representing a time that never loses its allure. Jeffrey Gusfield, a native Chicagoan, researched the history of Jack McGurn, Louise Rolfe, and the Capone years for more than four decades.
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Release : 1879
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