HNR Issue 13 (August 2000)
Red Grass River: A Legend
John Ashley’s gang was mostly a family affair, a notorious crew of moonshiners, bootleggers and natural-born outlaws, thriving in the…
Hawke’s Cove
Forbidden love that is forever young, wartime romance granted by a passion of place, redeems lovers from sin. After a…
A Reckoning of Angels
The Canadian novel is a closed book to most Yankees, once one gets past Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies,…
Altar Music
Three twentieth-century women experience crises of religious faith in this lyrical first novel, set in rural northern Minnesota between 1917…
Murder on St. Mark’s Place
This novel is Victoria Thompson’s second book in the Gaslight Mystery series. Her midwife detective Sarah Brandt once again teams…
June
June is set in the rural community of Ashton, Illinois, during 1940. The novel depicts life in a farming community…
Gardens in the Dunes
In Gardens In The Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko writes about Indigo, a child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe…
The Summer of ’39
Seymour has effectively used the first person narrative voice to write a compelling novel about a woman’s downward spiral into…
Day of the Bees
Zermano, the Spanish painter who depicted the horror of modern war, not in “Guernica” but in “Archangel Gabriel Flames Down…
A Far Better Rest
“To-day they guillotined Danton; and with him died the fragile dream of Clemency, and all my hopes and prayers.” So…
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