Product Description: A wintry Manhattan, 1927, finds Edna Ferber preparing for “the Ferber season on Broadway.” The bestselling author has two shows opening back to back. On December 27, the musical adaptation of Show Boat by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern...read more

Thurman's satirical novel offers a penetrating look at the Harlem renaissance as well as the world and lives of black artists and pseudo-artists during the 1920s.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Set on the hot city streets of Harlem in 1925, Mark Purvis is thrilled when he is given a simple job by Fats Waller, Harlem's musical genius, yet when the task goes wrong and a gangster ends up on his tail, young Mark thinks his days of impressing Fats with his skills on the saxophone may now be over...read more

Product Description: Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the "Black Orchid," a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. Price, a female 1920s version of Dominick Dunne, soon finds herself elbows-deep in a story in which everyone seems to be either lying or keeping a secret to die for...read more

Product Description: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Lilly Belle travels far from her hometown of Smyrna, Tennessee to 1920s Harlem after she is invited to take part in a summer program for gifted young writers--learning a great deal about jazz music, 'the capital of Black America,' and herself in the process.