HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Mozart’s Sister
Nannerl Mozart, a talented musician in her own right, is used to being overshadowed by her brother, Wolfgang. Nonetheless, she…
Passionate Minds
Emilie du Châtelet’s brilliant mind is nurtured by her elderly father, a rarity for a female in early 18th century…
A Respectable Trade
Fans of Gregory’s phenomenally successful Tudor novels will encounter a more somber, pensive writer in A Respectable Trade. Re-issued by…
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
This book is subtitled The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. While the…
Marta’s Promise
In 1766, many German Protestant religious minorities respond to Russia’s offer of open immigration, which includes free farmland, and they…
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank)…
Sparrowhawk, Book Six: War
The sixth and final book of the series picks up the story in the spring of 1774 and continues to…
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
The cover of this slim, informative volume suggests at first glance something in the spirit of A’Beckett’s The Comic History…
The Rose of York: Fall from Grace
While Worth’s ambitious novel offers a sympathetic representation of King Richard the Third, she also depicts him as humanly flawed…
Firehorse
This young adult novel is based on the events during and after the 1872 Boston Fire. Aimed at horse lovers,…
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