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  • In Person, Lena Horne: as told to Helen Arstein and Carlton Moss

    In Person: Lena Horne is a luminous and candid self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's most iconic performers — a woman whose voice, beauty, and courage helped transform American entertainment and civil rights. In this intimate memoir, Lena Horne reflects on her life in show business with warmth, wit, and a sharp sense of justice, tracing her journey from Harlem's Cotton Club to Hollywood ... Read more

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  • Z

    A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

    The New York Times bestseller that inspired the television drama Z: The Beginning of Everything, starring Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald.When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite ... Read more

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  • Call Me Zelda

    by Erika Robuck ...
    “[A] haunting and beautifully atmospheric novel...brilliantly brings Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to life in all their doomed beauty, with compelling and unforgettable results.”—Alex George, author of Setting Free the KitesFrom New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to ... Read more

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  • When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

    Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

    by Julie Satow ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Smithsonian, New York Post, and Financial Times"Ms. Satow’s carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the women ... Read more

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  • Negroland

    A Memoir

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural criticJefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”Margo Jefferson was born in ... Read more

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  • Flapper

    A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

    by Joshua Zeitz ...
    Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted.Flapper is an ... Read more

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  • The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Mobi Classics)

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in Colliers Magazine, and subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age (occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories). Developed for years by the late Hollywood mogul Ray Stark, the rights and story development were purchased from the Ray ... Read more

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  • Careless People

    Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

    "Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”—Kirkus (STARRED review)The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age ... Read more

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  • James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90)

    by James Thurber ...
    A comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled lifeJames Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged ... Read more

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  • Great Gatsby, The

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  • Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1938-1959 (LOA #298)

    by Peter Taylor ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Peter Taylor Edition
    For the first time, the complete short stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century American SouthBorn and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance. Now, for his centennial year, ... Read more

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  • Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923

    Dorothy Parker holds a place in history as one of New Yorks most beloved writers. Now, for the first time in nearly a century, the public is invited to enjoy Mrs. Parkers sharp wit and biting commentary on the Jazz Age hits and flops in this first-ever published collection of her groundbreaking Broadway reviews.Starting when she was twenty-four at Vanity Fair as New Yorks only female theatre ... Read more

    $8.69 USD