2005
Just Jane
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Spanning the era of the American Revolution, this young adult novel is a coming-of-age story about an English orphan sent to live in ...Read Review
A Gladiator Dies Only Once
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This collection featuring Gordianus the Finder is satisfying from beginning to end. Gordianus, who is “useful at digging up dirt,” has a reputation ...Read Review
Rules of Engagement
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This is the eleventh and final book in the mystery series featuring the blind magistrate Sir John Fielding (half-brother of novelist Henry) and ...Read Review
The Truth About Love
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With The Truth about Love, Stephanie Laurens has created a smartly-plotted murder mystery as well as a torrid Regency romance. The hero, Gerrard ...Read Review
Valaida
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Based on the life of Valaida Snow, one of the first female jazz trumpeters, this lyrical novel pulses with the heartbeat of black ...Read Review
Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle
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Sixth in Goulart’s enjoyable mystery series featuring screenwriter Frank Denby and the legendary Groucho Marx, this outing, set in 1940, finds the pair ...Read Review
The Homeplace
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In the year preceding the worst economic depression in American history, fourteen-year old Lanie Freeman and her family were optimistic about what the ...Read Review
Up From Orchard Street
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The 1930s lower East Side of Manhattan comes to brimming life in this novel/memoir. Told from the precocious viewpoint of nine-year-old Elka ...Read Review
The River of Doubt
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President Theodore Roosevelt found energy through grueling physical challenges. In this highly recommended biographical work, comparable to a thriller, he explores the River ...Read Review
Rosa, Sola
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Children/Young AdultInspirational
Carmela Martino provides a wonderful message of love, friendship, and family in this young adult novel. Set in Chicago in the late 1960s, ...Read Review