Groundhog Day

 

The best part of Groundhog Day? The movie of course, (Groundhog Day [videorecording]), not just because Bill Murray is in it, it was also directed by the late great Harold Ramis. I would go on about my love for these two, but I covered that in the Ghostbusters post, (Afterlife was amazing, incredible, and perfect by the way).

In celebration of what I consider cinematic greatness in all its repetitive glory, let's take a look at some books that incorporate time travel/time loops.

The Midnight Library by Haig, Matt

"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place"--. Provided by publisher.

Neverworld Wake by Pessl, Marisha

It's been one year since graduation, and Beatrice Hartley has mixed feelings about joining her friends at a weekend reunion.

She's right to be worried. After a night out, they narrowly avoid a collision with a car on a deserted road. Or so they believe.

Back at the mansion where they are staying, a mysterious man knocks on the door during a raging storm. He tells them that they must make a choice: one of them will live, and the rest will die. And the decision must be unanimous.

Soon time backbends. Beatrice and her friends are forced to repeat that dreadful day so many times they lose count. With each replay, events twist and fears come alive in horrifying ways.

This nightmare, this nothingness . . . this is the Neverworld Wake.

To escape, they have to vote. But how do you choose who to kill? And then how do you live with yourself?

Before I fall by Oliver, Lauren

After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Turton, Stuart

Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one is quite what they seem.

11/22/63: a novel by King, Stephen

On November 22, 1963, three shots changed the world. What if it never happened? Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely impossible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

The Time Traveler's Wife: a novel by Niffenegger, Audrey

Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.

The time traveler's wife [videorecording]

Life after Life: a novel by Atkinson, Kate

"What if you could live again and again until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best"-- Provided by publisher.

 

In A Holidaze by Lauren, Christina 

"Love Actually meets Groundhog Day in the quintessential holiday romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Honey-Don't List"-- Provided by publisher.

Maelyn Jones is living with her parents, hates her job, and just messed up her love life. She is dreading the family's last Christmas at their Utah cabin, but one random wish and she may just get a do-over.

Opposite of Always by Reynolds, Justin A.

After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.

Recursion by Crouch, Blake

Investigating a suicide, New York City police officer Barry Sutton finds a connection to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and a controversial neuroscientist working to preserve precious memories.

National Curmudgeons Day

 

January 29th is National Curmudgeons Day.   I find it fitting for this day to be in January because if any month is going to make me a cantankerous, crotchety, irascible grouch, it's January.   Let's face it, the month lasts forever; it's dark and then it gets darker because all the holiday lights get taken down; there is the fallout from holiday spending, and then, if you are like me, you will 100% get sick with something.  Just thinking about it is making me feel cross.

 

When compiling this list, I realized that I seem to have a soft spot for curmudgeons as I have a lot of favorites here, starting with A Man Called Ove by Backman, Fredrik

Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbor from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior, there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.

Britt-Marie Was Here by Backman, Fredrik

When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg--of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it--she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center. The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. Most alarming of all, she's given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory. In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Semple, Maria

When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.

The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared by Jonasson, Jonas

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant). It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, but he has actually played a key role in them. Starting out in munitions as a boy, he somehow finds himself involved in many of the key explosions of the twentieth century and travels the world, sharing meals and more with everyone from Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to Mao, Franco, and de Gaulle.

Olive Kitteridge

and

Olive, Again

by Elizabeth Strout

The Storied Life of A.J . Frikry by Zevin, Gabrielleby

When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family, and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.

Florence Gordon by Morton, Brian

"Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, a feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family and work and shape her legacy at long last. But just as she is beginning to write her long-deferred memoir, her son Daniel returns to New York from Seattle with his wife and daughter, and they embroil Florence in their dramas, clouding the clarity of her days with the frustrations of middle-age and the confusions of youth"-- Provided by publisher.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: a novel by Simonson, Helen

Catwad: by Benton, Jim

DVD:

Grumpy Old Men Grumpier Old Men

Up - DVD

Bad News Bears - DVD

The Lady in the Van -DVD

Tea Cozy

 

 Since it's still National Hot Tea Month, (because January just goes on forever and ever....), let's get cozy with a nice cuppa. 

 

  

Tea & Treachery by Delany, Vicki

A tea by the sea mystery: 1

When real estate developer Jack Ford--who was trying to drive her and her grandmother, Rose, out of business--is found dead on Rose's property, Lily, the owner of a traditional English tearoom, discovers that Ford was brewing trouble all over town as she tries to clear Rose's name.

 

Tea Shop Mystery Series by Childs, Laura

1. Death by Darjeeling

2. Gunpowder Green

3. Shades of Earl Grey

4. English Breakfast Murder

5. The Jasmine Moon Murder

6. Chamomile Mourning

7. Blood Orange Brewing

9. The Silver Needle Murder

10. Oolong Dead

11. The Teaberry Strangler

12. Scones & Bones

13. Agony of the Leaves

14. Sweet Tea Revenge

15. Steeped in Evil

16. Ming Tea Murder

17. Devonshire Scream

18. Pekoe Most Poison

19. Plum Tea Crazy

20. Broken Bone China

21. Lavender Blue Murder

22. Haunted Hibiscus

23. Twisted Tea Christmas

24. A Dark and Stormy Tea (2022)

Tea for Three

 Tea and Read Mystery -Avon, Joy

   1. In Peppermint Peril 

   2. Sweet Tea and Secrets 

   3. In Cold Chamomile

 

 

Hungarian Tea House Mystery - Buckley, Julia

   1. Death in a Budapest Butterfly 

   2. Death of a Wandering Wolf 

   3. Death on the Night of Lost Lizards

  

Tearoom Mystery -Various Authors

Tearoom for Two

Tea Rose

To a Tea

Crosswords and Chamomile

Burning Secrets

O Christmas Tea

On Thin Ice

Tea Is For Treasure

Trouble Brewing

Mystery and Macarons

The Tea Will Tell

Tea and Touchdowns

Steeped in Secrets

Stealing Santa A Monumental Mystery

Whispers from the Past

Tearoom in a Tempest

Brimming with Questions

Tea Cups and Carnage by Cahoon, Lynn

 The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is about to find out, there's nothing cozy about murder...Shop owner Kathi Corbin says she came to South Cove to get away from her estranged family. But is she telling the truth? And did a sinister someone from her past follow her to South Cove? When a woman claiming to be Kathi's sister starts making waves and a dead body is found in a local motel, Jill must step in to clear Kathi's name--without getting herself in hot water.

Edgar Allan Poe

My high school, being a rather small Christian school, (my graduating class had 19 students and we were one of the larger classes) was not one of peak performance when it came to athletics.  It was very much an "if you showed up you were on the team" type of experience.   I never showed up.  The only sport they had for the female students was volleyball and I wanted soccer, (in fact all the girls wanted soccer).  Since sports were never going to be our thing, we made it a point the embrace 'The Arts".

Competitive Acting Scenes, Reader's Theater, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, and of course Poetry.

I had hopes of being able to perform poetry for competition; specifically Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".  I was deeply involved in imaginary gothic romanticism that was built on Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, (and I will be mourning the loss of Anne Rice for a long time to come).  My dreams were shattered, however, when my English teacher said no on that basis that she feared the rhyming would lead to a sing-song recitation of the poem.  I'm still upset.

Poems and prose by Poe, Edgar Allan

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by Tresch, John

"A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"--. Provided by publisher.

Poe : A Life Cut Short by Ackroyd, Peter

Explores Poe's literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin and his much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol.

The Man Who Was Poe by Avi

In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.

Poe: Stories and Poems: a graphic novel adaptation by Hinds, Gareth

A volume of graphic novel renderings of some of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known works includes "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven."

 

 

Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe by Poe, Edgar Allan

Adaptations of fourteen horror tales by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by various artists. 

His Hideous Heart : Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

 

Thirteen of Poe's terrifying works are reimagined in new and unexpected ways for modern readers. Poe's own stories are included, so readers can compare.

 

 Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness by Poe, Edgar Allan

A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder. The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red. A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors. A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave. Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled. Here are four tales -- The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher -- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The original tales have been ever so slightly dismembered -- but, of course, Poe understood dismemberment very well. And he would shriek in ghoulish delight at Gris Grimly's gruesomely delectable illustrations that adorn every page. So prepare yourself. And keep the lights on.

Masque of the Red Death by Griffin, Bethany

In this twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, a wealthy teenaged girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow an oppressive government, and faces the threat of a new plague.

Antiques Ravin' by Allan, Barbara

After being elected county sheriff, Vivian Borne deputizes her reluctant daughter to help solve a series of murders centered around the town's Edgar Allan Poe festival.

 Edgar, Allan, and Poe and the Tell-Tale Beets by Rompella, Natalie

It all began with the beets. The revoltingly red beets that drove Edgar, Allan, and Poe to do the horrendously horrible thing that they did. Their mother has one unbreakable rule: "No dessert until you finish your dinner." But how can Edgar, Allan, and Poe possibly clear their plates when there are Brussels sprouts to be swallowed, liver to be chewed, and worst of all, beets to be bitten? There must be a way to get rid of dinner, without having to gobble up this foul food. Perhaps the loose floorboard under Poe's chair is the answer! But just as the parade of delicious desserts begins, the hidden food starts to grow and starts to smell and it's going to blow their cover.

Prohibition

 

A proper study of American History would not be complete without alcohol; lots and lots of alcohol.  From the very beginning alcohol has had a profound influence on America: “The Pilgrims landed the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on a cold November day in 1620 because they were running out of beer.”― Susan Cheever, Drinking in America: Our Secret History

In colonial times, Britain attempted to exert their parental rights by putting a ban on alcohol in Georgia due to an overabundance of rum and brandy consumption.  In turn, Georgia farmers took this as an opportunity not only to run illegal stills but to run to South Carolina for booze.  https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-road-to-prohibition/why-prohibition-happened/

Rum was incredibly popular among the colonies. British taxation and regulation of molasses and then sugar was therefore unappreciated. "By 1770, the colonies had more than 140 rum distilleries, making about 4.8 million gallons annually. That was on top of the 3.78 million gallons imported each year." (https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/drink.cfm)

“John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: 'I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.' ”

Tom Standage

Although rum was "the spirit of '76"  it was Whiskey that ruled after the revolution. Britain, bitter after losing its custody battle over the United States, thought to punish the used-to-be-colonies by refusing to supply them with rum. However, if there is one thing America has, that is corn, and from corn, comes whiskey. https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-drinking-alcohol/

 

 "...penned by Mr. Benjamin Franklin himself, in his famous Poor Richard's Almanack:  First 'for making good wine of our own wild Grapes.'  Secondly, 'for raising Madeira Wine in [this] province.' Thirdly, for the Improvement of our Corn Spirits, so as they may be preferable to Rum. And this seems very material; for as we raise more Corn that the English West-India Islands can take off.  and since we cannot now well sell it to the foreign Islands, what can we do with the Overplus better, that to turn it into Spirit, and thereby lessen the Demand for West-India Rum, which or Grain will not pay for?'" Bourbon: a history of the American spirit by Huckelbridge, Dane

Having shed the parental oversight of  Britain, America stepped up ready to govern itself, American leaders thought that one way to do this would be by imposing a whiskey tax. The distillers of western Pennsylvania vehemently disagreed, thus leading us into The Whiskey Rebellion of 1791-1794.  When the rebellion became increasingly violent, President Washington sent nearly 13,000 militia into Pennslyvania, thus putting an end to the protests.

 At twenty-five cents a gallon, in 1820, whiskey was cheaper than beer, wine, coffee, tea, or milk. (The 1800s: When Americans Drank Whiskey Like it was Water By Jim Vore). American consumption of alcohol was ever-increasing, by 1830, drinkers aged 15 and older consumed roughly 7.1 gallons per year. 

One major reason for this is that water was just not safe to drink and still isn't in some places. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/62625m-settlement-may-not-enough-survivors-flint-water-crisis-rcna79)

Women whose husbands' frequent over-indulgence would combine with other abusive behaviors were able to find kinship in groups like the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the American Temperance Society. Both of which were taking stands to promote abstinence from alcohol. These movement's, typically run by religious groups set about to warn people of the dangers of alcohol

Carrie Nation

"Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation,[1] or Hatchet Granny, was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet.


Nation was also concerned about tight clothing for women; she refused to wear a corset and urged women not to wear them because of their harmful effects on vital organs.[2] She described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like",[3] and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Natio

The Anti-Saloon League, led by Wayne Wheeler, took things several steps further by creating their own publishing house. This helped them to gain influence over media, publications, and politicians. When the first World War came, the league opted to Play-off of people's anti-immigrant prejudice by claiming German beer as treasonous.

In 1917, the 18th Amendment was passed in Congress and it was ratified in 1919. At 12:01 A.M. on January 17, 1920 Prohibition went into effect.

Herald and Review

Decatur, Illinois16 Jan 1920, Fri • Page 3

"PROHIBITION LAW EFFECTIVE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING: Owners Whose Tenants Sell Liquor May Be Punished; Stocks Purchased Ater July 1 May Be Seized; Drinking Only in Homes Legal.

Dixon Evening Telegraph

Dixon, Illinois16 Jan 1920, Fri • Page 1

"Spectacular robberies marked the early hours of prohibition eve here.  In one six masked men bound the yardmaster and watchman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, drove six trainmen into a shanty, and took between $5-,--- and $100,000 worth of whiskey from the two box cars.

In the other several men held a watchman for the Coco Cola company at bay with revolvers and rolled four barrels of alcohol from a warehouse to a waiting truck.  Their booty was valued at $5000."

 

Prohibition [videorecording]

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. Raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality.

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Okrent, Daniel

Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.

Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by Binder, John J.

"Based on 25 years of research using all available sources, this is the definitive history of organized crime in Chicago through the end of the Prohibition Era"-- Provided by publisher.

The Ghosts of Eden Park the Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America / [text (large print)] : by Abbott, Karen

"The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new Pontiacs for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the U.S. Attorney's office hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. It's a decision with deadly consequences: with Remus behind bars, Franklin and Imogene begin an affair and plot to ruin him, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government--and that can only end in murder. Combining deep historical research with novelistic flair, The ghosts of Eden Park is the unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction story of a rags-to-riches entrepreneur and a long-forgotten heroine, of the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, and of the infinite human capacity to deceive"-- Provided by publisher.

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by O'Meara, Mallory

 

 Provides a tour through the feminist history of women drinking, revealing the untold female distillers, drinkers, and brewers that played vital roles in potent potable history, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to 1920s bartender Ada Coleman.

The Wicked Widow by Williams, Beatriz

"June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for a respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York's most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket -- and Anson's mortal enemy -- turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their short-lived honeymoon bliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends Anson back undercover ... and into the jaws of a trap from which not even Gin can rescue him. As violence explodes around her, Gin must summon all her considerable moxie to trace the tentacles of this sinister organization back to their shocking source, and face down a legendary American family at a rigged game it has no intention of losing. June 1998. When Ella Dommerich's ninety-something society queen aunt Julie ropes her into digging up dirt on Senator (and Presidential candidate) Franklin Hardcastle in order to settle old family scores, she couldn't be less enthusiastic. Pregnant Ella's recently ditched her unfaithful husband and settled into cozy -- if complicated -- domesticity with her almost-too-good-to-be-true musician boyfriend, Hector. But then the Hardcastle secrets lead to a web of shady dealings Ella's uncovered in her job as a financial analyst, and the bodies start to tumble out of the venerable woodwork. With the help of her ex-husband and her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, Ella digs up more than mere dirt -- only to discover herself standing alone between a legendarily ruthless family and the prize it's sought for generations. What ugly secrets lurk in the opulent enclaves -- and bank accounts -- of America's richest families? And can two determined women from two different generations thwart the murderous legacy of the demon liquor?" --. Provided by publisher.

The Stills by Montgomery, Jess

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 Zebediah Harkins 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.

Blind tiger by Brown, Sandra

"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--. Provided by publisher.

https://www.historynet.com/uneasy-about-alcohol-america-and-the-booze-question.htm

https://www.facebook.com/112638828761558/photos/borger-texasphoto-confiscated-moonshine-equipment-in-front-of-the-hutchinson-cou/952109628147803/