2005

Karoo Boy

By Troy Blacklaws - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

Douglas Thomas is a white teenager in Cape Town, South Africa, in the late 1970s. He lives with his mother, father, and twin ...Read Review

Swing

By Rupert Holmes - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

If you like Big Band music and enjoy historical thrillers, you’ll have a lot of fun with this book. It includes a ...Read Review

The Last Bride

By Sandra Landry - Published 2005

Genres:

RomanceTime-slip

Time travel books are a wonderful subgenre; they allow the pleasure of experiencing another time, even if it is vicariously. If the reader ...Read Review

Dark Sons

By Nikki Grimes - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultInspirational

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

Fire and Bronze

By Robert Raymond - Published 2005

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

Little is known of the real Queen Dido of Carthage. As legend has it, she was a princess of Tyre who fled her ...Read Review

Ghost Legion

By Johnny D. Boggs - Published 2005

Genres:

Military

This is a very gritty depiction of the events leading up to the battle of King’s Mountain in 1780. The author, a Spur ...Read Review

Almost a Lady

By Jane Feather - Published 2005

Genres:

Romance

Meg Barratt sets off from the lending library in Folkestone, having picked up her eagerly awaited copy of Mrs. Radcliff’s The Italian. ...Read Review

A Heart for Any Fate

By Suzanne Lyon - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical FictionSaga

On the beautiful banks of the New River in Virginia in 1790, Hannah Allison married Willard Temple Cole. Hannah and Temple took up farming ...Read Review

Bandeaux Creek

By Carolyn Rawls Booth - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

Bandeaux Creek is the sequel to Between the Rivers, Carolyn Rawls Booth’s down-home saga of the McBryde family of Bladen Country, North ...Read Review

No Man’s Land

By Duong Thu Huong - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

The author makes an astute observation: “A ghost that comes back to the living is three times as hungry for life as an ...Read Review