HNR Issue 13 (August 2000)
Sor Juana’s Second Dream
This lovely novel can be read without any previous knowledge of the famous Mexican nun. The author evokes the feel…
The Heretic
Set in fifteenth-century Spain, The Heretic tells the story of a converso Christian who rediscovers his Jewish roots, with dire…
The French Mathematician
“Mathematics is my life.” This doesn’t seem a very exciting declaration coming from the protagonist of a historical novel set…
No Rest for the Dove
No Rest for the Dove reunites Charlotte Willett and Richard Longfellow, neighbors and amateur sleuths in colonial Massachusetts, in solving…
The Overmountain Men (The Tennessee Frontier Trilogy, v.1: 1757-1777)
Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Cumberland House is republishing Judd’s fictional history of the early days of that state in three…
Apalachee
Set in Florida and South Carolina between 1704 and 1715, this richly-textured story follows the intertwined lives of Native American,…
The Rose Grower
In 1789, monumental changes took place in France. Australian writer Michelle de Kretser’s debut novel begins on the famously fateful…
The Sun and the Moon
King Henry II of England suspects that his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, conspires against him. To ferret out the…
Devilish
Known as the eminence noire of England, Bey Malloren, the Marquess of Rothgar, lives up to his moniker. Powerful at…
The Forgotten Queen
The early twelfth century, during the reign of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, was a time of relative…
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