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Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours

By HRH Princess Michael of Kent - Published 2002 (UK)Published 2006 (US)

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This reprinted collection of biographies varies in one way from the original: the author, having written a whole book about Diane de Poitiers, ...Read Review

Voodoo Season

By Jewell Parker Rhodes - Published 2005

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Mystery/Crime

New Orleans in early 2005 is the setting for the mysterious string of deaths of young people—all women but one, all dead of ...Read Review

The King in the Window

By Adam Gopnik - Published 2005

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Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy

One January evening in modern-day Paris, eleven-year-old American Oliver Parker embarks upon an adventure that takes him on a journey far beyond his ...Read Review

Dark Sons

By Nikki Grimes - Published 2005

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Children/Young Adult Inspirational

This book is written in tender poetic narratives through the voices of two emotionally charged young men. Ishmael, the son of the Biblical ...Read Review

Steeplechase

By Jane Langton - Published 2005

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Mystery/Crime

The greatest mystery is that this book is considered a mystery at all. The only crime involved is the “killing” of an ancient ...Read Review

The Diamond

By Julie Baumgold - Published 2005

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Adventure

To while away the time on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte’s companion-in-exile, Count de Las Cases, pens the ...Read Review

Find Me Again

By Sylvia Maultash Warsh - Published 2003

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Literary Mystery/Crime

In this Edgar-winning novel spanning three centuries from Enlightenment Europe, Nazi Germany, and present-day Toronto, Warsh’s protagonist must resolve mysteries both old ...Read Review

The Courtesan

By Susan Carroll - Published 2005

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Historical Fantasy Romance

In this second book of a trilogy set in Renaissance France, daughter of the earth Gabrielle Cheney leaves Faire Isle and lives as ...Read Review

New York Night: The Mystique and Its History

By Mark Caldwell - Published 2005

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Nonfiction

In New York Night, Mark Caldwell reports on the evolution of Manhattan nightlife from the era of Dutch colonization to the heyday of ...Read Review

Witchcraft, A History

By P.G. Maxwell-Stuart - Published 2004

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Nonfiction

Witchcraft, A History is a concentrated examination of the rituals and customs of the craft’s first architects in Greece and Rome through ...Read Review