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2000

The Last Cantata

By Philippe Delelis - Published 2000

Genres:

King Frederick II of Prussia summons the elderly J. S. Bach from Leipzig to Potsdam for a meeting. When Bach is ushered into ...Read Review

Bianca

By Robert Elegant - Published 1992 Published 2000

Genres:

Saga Thriller

Elegant paints a colorful portrait of Renaissance Venice at the height of its glory in the mid to late 16th century. Bianca, a ...Read Review

Grant

By Max Byrd - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Grant joins Ev Ehrlich’s Grant Speaks and Richard Parry’s That Fateful Lightning (see Review 13) as novels concerning the life and especially ...Read Review

The Battle

By Patrick Rimbaud - Published 2000

Genres:

Military

Anyone interested in the Napoleonic Era is blessed with a large and continually expanding list of books and journals, fiction and non-fiction. Popular ...Read Review

A Hint Of Witchcraft

By Anna Gilbert - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Both the title of this novel and the book-jacket blurb suggest a tale of supernatural happenings. But A Hint of Witchcraft is a ...Read Review

The Map of Love

By Ahdaf Soueif - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance Saga

Set in the early 1900s and in the 1990s, The Map of Love tells of two intertwined, cross-cultural love stories. In 1901 Anna Winterbourne ...Read Review

The Water Nymph

By Michele Jaffe - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Romance

Set in Elizabethan London, The Water Nymph is a romantic romp full of espionage and intrigue. Sophie Champion matches wits with Crispin Foscari, ...Read Review

Righteous Warriors

By Meredith Campbell - Published 2000

Genres:

Military Romance

Civil wars always provide a novelist with perfect, ready-made historical settings for drama and passion set against backgrounds of large scale suffering and ...Read Review

My Dark Prince

By Julia Ross - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance

I almost didn’t make it beyond the first fifty pages of this book. Our introduction to the main characters—Nicholas, Sovereign Prince ...Read Review

Our Man in Washington

By Roy Hoopes - Published 2000

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Set in 1923 Washington DC, this novel uses historical figures as characters, though many of their actions have been fictionalized. Henry L. Mencken is ...Read Review