HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
The Ghost Orchid
This suspenseful novel is set at an artists’ colony in Saratoga in upstate New York. The action alternates between…
Uncertain Pilgrims
This story, a contemporary novel sprinkled with rich historical detail, centers on healing, fresh perspectives and starting anew. After…
The Mirror of the Gods : Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art
This is a scholarly study but plainly written with a minimum of technical artistic terms, which makes it accessible…
Saving the World
This book is composed of several layers, like a torte. In present-day America we have Alma, turning fifty, depressed…
The Sale of the Late King’s Goods : Charles l and His Art Collection
Charles I raised the sin of acquisitiveness to gargantuan heights. During his reign thousands of paintings, tapestries and statuary…
Basilica : The Splendour and the Scandal — Building St Peter’s
The Basilica of St. Peter’s has dominated the spiritual and physical landscape of the Catholic Church for centuries, an…
Behold the Many
“Everyone I have ever loved has left me behind.” One character writes these words to another in a letter,…
Mavericks of the Sky
Every night, dozens of FedEx planes take off from cities all over America and converge on Memphis, Tennessee, where…
Cradle of Violence : How Boston’s Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution
Early American history, as taught in grammar schools, has most Americans believing that the American Revolution was fomented and…
Chiefs
Chiefs is a rare, not-so-distant past mystery that credibly qualifies as true historical fiction. It predominantly chronicles the small…
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