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2) Lawless
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel The Wettest County in the World, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa--population just 418--were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by Joe Irlbeck, the whip-smart and gregarious son of a Bavarian immigrant, the outfit of farmers, small merchants, and even the church Monsignor worked together to create a whiskey so excellent it was ordered by name: Templeton Rye. Gentlemen...
6) Sonoma rose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of violence...
11) Spirits of just men: mountaineers, liquor bosses, and lawmen in the moonshine capital of the world
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Following the end of Prohibition in 1933, demand for moonshine remained high due to taxes imposed on large liquor producers. Seeking to answer this demand were the distillers of Appalachia who, having established illegal networks of moonshine distribution under Prohibition, continued their activities and effectively skirted the federal liquor tax scheme. Spirits of Just Men chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, held in Franklin...
12) Thunder road
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A Kentucky bootlegger battles racketeers who try to muscle in on his territory.
13) Moonshiner's son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tom is proud to work at the family still in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, until Amy, a preacher's daughter, challenges his way of life.
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.
15) White lightning
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to take down a moonshine ring.
Author
Series
Blood bond volume no. 14
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful daughter. Trouble is, while Matt is falling hard, Sam is being recruited by a sheriff who happens to have a lovely daughter of his own.....What happens when you mix 200-proof corn liquor with intoxicating women...
18) The stills
Author
Series
Kinship volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The third in Jess Montgomery's exquisitely written Kinship series, The Stills is a triumph of storytelling by an extraordinary new talent in crime fiction..."--
With compassion and insight, Jess Montgomery weaves a gripping mystery and portrait of community in The Stills, the powerful third novel in the Kinship series. Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known...
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