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2005

The Foreshadowing

By Marcus Sedgwick - Published 2005

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The Foreshadowing tells the story of seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox in England. It is 1915 and men from all over the country are being sent ...Read Review

Bear Dancer: The Story of a Ute Girl

By Thelma Hatch Wyss - Published 2005

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Children/Young Adult Western

This story highlights three years in the life of a teenage Ute named Elk Girl. The three-part story begins with an innocent ...Read Review

The Memoirs of Catherine the Great : A New Translation

By Hilde Hoogenboom - By Mark Cruse - Published 2005

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Nonfiction

This new edition of the Memoirs is a thorough and sympathetic introduction to Catherine’s writing. They cover the years 1745 to 1762, the ...Read Review

The Last Duel

By Eric Jager - Published 2005 Published 2006

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Nonfiction

A fascinating insight into the medieval mindset, a world in which people believed that the question of who had committed a crime could ...Read Review

The World of the Gladiator

By Susanna Shadrake - Published 2005

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Nonfiction

From the origins of gladiatorial games in Rome’s early history, to its gruesome flowering, the author meticulously details the progress of ...Read Review

Murder on the Middle Fork

By Don Ian Smith - By Naida West - Published 2005

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Mystery/Crime

This short novel accurately depicts the hardscrabble and desperate lives of those who preyed on the fortunes of others. The story unfolds alongside ...Read Review

Lovers and Enemies

By Anne Herries - Published 2005

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Romance

Caroline Saunders always expected to marry Harry Mortimer, the ne’er-do-well son of her parents’ closest friends. But when dissent between King ...Read Review

The Other Eden

By Sarah Bryant - Published 2005 Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Romance

In 1924 Eleanor Rose turns 21 and inherits her family estate in Louisiana, ‘Eden’s Meadow’. Left an orphan as a child and brought ...Read Review

Lost Souls

By Jenny Haworth - Published 2005

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Military

Two brothers, Luke and Jack Macpherson, raised on a sheep station owned by a Scottish father who has no love for the ...Read Review

The Valley

By J.D. Landis - Published 2005 Published 2006

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Saga

Landis’ third novel tells the story of Sarianna, a student in late 1930s Massachusetts with nihilistic leanings and a poetic attachment to ...Read Review