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02795aam a2200409 4500 001 69A3A3D835A611E983801B6197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190221010029 008 180420s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0735210756 020 $a 9780735210752 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Faye, Lyndsay. 245 14 $a The Paragon Hotel. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b G. P. Putnams Sons, $c 2019. 300 $a 422 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers - burning crosses, inciting violence, electing officials, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice, along with her new "family" of Paragon residents, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods. Why was "Nobody" Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon's denizens live in fear - and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel, Davy Lee, come from in the first place? And, perhaps most important, why does Blossom Fontaine seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? 541 $d 20190117. 650 7 $a Suspense - Fiction. 650 $a Hotels $v Fiction. 650 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 650 $a Nineteen twenties $v Fiction. 650 $a Nineteen twenties. 650 7 $a Missing children--Fiction. 650 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Missing children $x Investigation $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Race Relations - Fiction. 650 $a Young women $v Fiction. 650 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Portland (Or) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction.) 941 $a 2 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20190423010612.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20190221011213.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=69A3A3D835A611E983801B6197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search