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Back To Wando Passo

By David Payne - Published 2006

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Ransom Hill is desperately hopeful that his problems will work out because he has made the decision to turn over a new leaf ...Read Review

The Evidence Of The Sword And Other Mysteries

By Rafael Sabatini - Published 2006

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Short Stories

Master of the swashbuckler novel, the author of Captain Blood and Scaramouche also wrote short fiction, and this is a fine collection of ...Read Review

The Brushstroke Legacy

By Lauraine Snelling - Published 2006

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Ragni Clauson needs to get her life fixed – big time! Although she’s looking forward to an immensely needed vacation, her sister tells ...Read Review

The Book Of Fathers

By Miklos Vamos - By Peter Sherwood (trans.) - Published 2006

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Literary

Spanning four centuries of Hungarian history, from the solar eclipse of May 17th, 1706, to the one of August 11th, 1999, the central conceit of ...Read Review

The Golden Hour

By Maiya Williams - Published 2006

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Children/Young Adult Time-slip

After the sudden death of their mother, Rowan and Nina Popplewell are packed off to Maine to spend a month in a ...Read Review

The Hour of the Cobra

By Maiya Williams - Published 2006

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Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Twins Xavier and Xanthe Alexander travel back in time to the Egypt of Cleopatra, via the magical “alleviators” discovered in a mysterious ...Read Review

Marriage, a History : How Love Conquered Marriage

By Stephanie Coontz - Published 2006

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Nonfiction

This is a scholarly book with pizzazz. The author reports on marriage practices and laws from ancient Babylon to the present. The ...Read Review

Saving the World

By Julia Alvarez - Published 2006

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Saga

This book is composed of several layers, like a torte. In present-day America we have Alma, turning fifty, depressed and lost; we ...Read Review

Royal Panoply : Brief Lives of the English Monarchs

By Carolly Erickson - Published 2006

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Nonfiction

Somehow Erickson manages, in the space she permits herself, to give us vignettes about 40 English monarchs from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth ...Read Review

Uncertain Pilgrims

By Lenore Carroll - Published 2006

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Adventure

This story, a contemporary novel sprinkled with rich historical detail, centers on healing, fresh perspectives and starting anew. After tragedy strikes the ...Read Review