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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Mortal Sins

By Penn Williamson - Published 2000

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New Orleans’ reputation for political corruption and urban violence serves as an intriguing backdrop for the outlandish behavior and Mardi Gras mayhem also ...Read Review

City of Angels (Shannon Saga, 1)

By James Scott Bell - By Tracie Peterson - Published 2001

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Saga

This novel, set on the cusp of the women’s rights movement in the first years of the 20th century, is about a ...Read Review

The Floating Lady Murder: A Harry Houdini Mystery (Harry Houdini Mysteries)

By Daniel Stashower - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction Mystery/Crime

This sequel to The Dime Museum Murders is second in a mystery series featuring struggling young stage illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini (1874...Read Review

Promise of Light: A Novel

By Paul Watkins - Published 2000

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Inspirational Mystery/Crime

It’s the unusual death of Ben Sheridan’s father that stalks him throughout this novel. Sheridan’s search takes him from his ...Read Review

The Forger

By Paul Watkins - Published 2000

Genres:

Thriller

David Halifax, a young American painter, accepts a scholarship from the Levasseur Committee for Fine Arts. The scholarship intrigues him, as he had ...Read Review

Nine Bells for a Man

By Peter Unwin - Published 2000

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Adventure

Robert Pachal is a farmer from Saskatchewan who agrees to accompany his late brother-in-law’s body back to Ontario, after the latter dies ...Read Review

Slapstick

By Laura Mazzuca Toops - Published 2001

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In 1927, movies gained a voice — and many stars lost their careers. Slapstick chronicles the fall of silent screen comic genius Harold Gilbert, whose ...Read Review

Jerusalem Vigil: The Zion Legacy Book I (Zion Legacy (Paperback))

By Bodie Thoene - Published 2000

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Military

The first of the Thoenes’ three-book Zion Legacy series starts with the declaration of sovereignty by David Ben-Gurion on Friday, May 14, 1948 and continues ...Read Review

The Song And The Truth

By Helga Ruebsamen - By Paul Vincent (trans.) - Published 2000 Published 2000-10-19

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Literary

The Song and the Truth is told in the voice of a young child whose stories of dreams and reality are so intermingled ...Read Review

Children of My Heart

By Alan Brown (trans.) - By Gabrielle Roy - Published 2000

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Literary

Gabrielle Roy, beloved of the Canadian literary establishment, died in 1983. Ces enfants de ma vie was her last novel. This edition of Alan ...Read Review