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2004

The Peacemaker

By Lori Copeland - Published 2004

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In July 1865, Wynne Elliot is bent on revenge—to shoot that varmint, Cass Claxton, who stood her up at the altar and stole ...Read Review

Paradise Falls

By Ruth Ryan Langan - Published 2004

Genres:

Romance

Paradise Falls takes us to 1890s Michigan for the story of a single girl embarking on a new life. Fiona Downey is the ...Read Review

Meriwether

By David Niven - Published 2004

Genres:

Adventure Biographical Fiction

Anyone who has read one of David Niven’s novels knows that he has a facility for turning seminal American history into fascinating ...Read Review

Road to Purgatory

By Max Allen Collins - Published 2004

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Mystery/Crime

It is 1942, and the horrors of the Bataan jungle are permanently scarring soldiers. Michael Santariano, a childlike individual at twenty, fights confidently and ...Read Review

The Real Minerva

By Mary Sharratt - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

Minerva, Minnesota, in 1923 appears to be a growing modern town. In small-town fashion, shadows are actively cast on family secrets. Three women in ...Read Review

The Red Queen

By Margaret Drabble - Published 2004

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Literary

What a daring strategy for a novelist! In Margaret Drabble’s new novel, the first half is told in the voice of Crown ...Read Review

I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials

By Lisa Rowe Fraustino - Published 2004

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Children/Young Adult

This young adult novel joins the many others in the Dear America series of fictional diaries set at pivotal points in US history. ...Read Review

Friday the Arapaho Boy: A Story from History

By Marc Simmons - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult Western

Simmons, New Mexico’s Historian Laureate, does a fine job with writing this children’s fictional history book. Ronald Kil provides colorfully detailed ...Read Review

Philippa

By Bertrice Small - Published 2004

Genres:

Romance

The women of Friarsgate again feature in this third offering from Bertrice Small’s bestselling series, The Friarsgate Inheritance. Philippa, eldest child of ...Read Review

The Green Age of Asher Witherow

By M. Allen Cunningham - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

Early on, narrator of this novel claims “the price of memory is a certain profound impotence.” This statement propels Asher Witherow, born into ...Read Review