Reviews

The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War

By Howard Bahr - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

In November 1864, General John Bell Hood ordered the army of Tennessee to perform a frontal assault against a secure Union defensive position outside ...Read Review

The Marplot Marriage

By Beth Andrews - Published 1999

Genres:

Romance

Mischievous, fun-loving Phoebe Bridgerton and her stuffy cousin-in-law, Charles Hargood, are thrown into matrimony because of the inconvenient but extremely entertaining circumstance of ...Read Review

In the Name of Salome

By Julia Alvarez - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Alvarez alternates between the story of Salome Urena, a poet in the politically turbulent Dominican Republic of the nineteenth century and that of ...Read Review

Blazing Tree: A Michael Merrick Mystery (Michael Merrick Mysteries)

By Mary Jo Adamson - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Adamson, whose previous mysteries have been set in present day Puerto Rico, begins a new series with this book. Set in 19th century ...Read Review

A Time for Treason

By Anne Newton Walther - Published 2000

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After George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River, they fought the British Army using gunpowder obtained from Bermuda, a British colony. ...Read Review

The French Mathematician:A Novel

By Tom Petsinis - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

“Mathematics is my life.” This doesn’t seem a very exciting declaration coming from the protagonist of a historical novel set in revolutionary ...Read Review

No Rest for the Dove

By Margaret Miles - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

No Rest for the Dove reunites Charlotte Willett and Richard Longfellow, neighbors and amateur sleuths in colonial Massachusetts, in solving a murder. The ...Read Review

The Overmountain Men (Tennessee Frontier)

By Cameron Judd - Published 2000

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Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Cumberland House is republishing Judd’s fictional history of the early days of that state in three handsome trade ...Read Review

Apalachee

By Joyce Rockwood Hudson - Published 2000

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Set in Florida and South Carolina between 1704 and 1715, this richly-textured story follows the intertwined lives of Native American, Spanish, and British characters and ...Read Review

The Rose Grower

By Michelle de Kretser - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

In 1789, monumental changes took place in France. Australian writer Michelle de Kretser’s debut novel begins on the famously fateful 14th of July — ...Read Review