Andrea Bell

Augusta Locke

By William Haywood Henderson - Published 2006

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Augusta Locke feels like a novel in two parts. Augusta (“Gussie”) is born to a Minnesota trapper in 1903, a wild creature who looks ...Read Review

Poisoned Palms: The Murder of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford

By Dorothea N. Buckingham - Published 2005

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Mystery/Crime

Hattie Lehua is a half-Hawaiian bookkeeper at the Palms Hotel in Waikiki in 1905. She is a bright, reliable young woman who dreams of ...Read Review

Passarola Rising

By Azhar Abidi - Published 2006

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Adventure

Father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a pioneer in 18th-century aviation. His flying ship, the Passarola, never succeeded in transporting humans, ...Read Review

Household Words

By Joan Silber - Published 2005

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Rhoda Taber is a pregnant, suburban, Jewish housewife in New Jersey in 1940. She doesn’t always feel like she fits in, but her ...Read Review

Mrs. Freud

By Nicolle Rosen - Published 2005

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Biographical Fiction

It is 1946, seven years after the death of Sigmund Freud. American journalist Mary Huntington Smith contacts Freud’s wife, Martha, with a proposition ...Read Review

Honey Bea

By Kim L. Siegelson - Published 2006

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Children/Young Adult

Beatrice is born a slave on the Rillieux sugar plantation in Louisiana. Her father has died trying to escape, and her mother, Ara, ...Read Review

Karoo Boy

By Troy Blacklaws - Published 2005

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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

The Ranger and the Redhead

By Lynna Banning - Published 2005

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AdventureRomance

When Will Bondurant rescues preacher’s daughter Charlotte Greenfield from the hands of the Sioux in 1861 Nebraska, he has no idea of the ...Read Review

The Rain from God

By Mark Ammerman - Published 2005

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Inspirational

Katanaquat, or “The Rain from God,” is an important member of the Narragansett tribe in 17th century America, in the region that is ...Read Review

The Royal Diaries: Anacaona, Golden Flower

By Edwidge Danticat - Published 2005

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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Anacaona explores the life of a proud, young Taíno woman as she grows into rulership, love, and motherhood. This young adult novel ...Read Review