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24 books with the same feel
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Dashiell Hammett · 967 pages
"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel."--BOOK JACKET. "The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing."--BOOK JACKET. "Each novel
The Diviners
Libba Bray · 608 pages
Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w
Something at the Window Is Scratching: Children's Tales for Disturbed Children
Roman Dirge · 128 pages
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Tim Burton · 128 pages
A bizarre menagerie of characters--including Oyster Boy, Brie Boy, Match Girl, and Stick Boy--search for love and understanding in a world that does not comprehend oddities.
Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks
Heinrich Hoffmann · 48 pages
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
Caroline Preston · 228 pages
"For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie's dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Thro
A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury
Kerry Greenwood, Beth Norling · 265 pages
The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamant garters - is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This all-new collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including lists of Phryne's favourite designers, decadent cocktail recipes and other ephemera - is a gorgeously collectable, must-have treat for all Phryne fans. Lavi
Pretty Boy Floyd
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana · 446 pages
The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma working as a baker's helper at the Kroger Bakery, has just taken the big step that will make him, very shortly, a legend in his own lifetime: he has just robbed his first armored car. Charley is an irresistible invention, as American as Huck Finn, a young man so charming that i
Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses
Mary Engelbreit · 128 pages
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
Eloise Greenfield
Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Heather O'Neill · 389 pages
The Lonely Hearts Hote is a love story with the power of legend. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most
Science Verse
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 40 pages
When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.
I, Too, Am America
Langston Hughes · 40 pages
Winner of the Coretta Scott King illustrator award, *I, Too, Am America* blends the poetic wisdom of Langston Hughes with visionary illustrations from Bryan Collier in this inspirational picture book that carries the promise of equality. Langston Hughes was a courageous voice of his time, and his authentic call for equality still rings true today. Beautiful paintings by illustrator Bryan Collie
Vile Verses
Roald Dahl · 191 pages
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.