HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Drums
Its back cover advertises Drums as “the best novel of the American Revolution ever written.” Frankly, I found that description…
Finest Kind
It’s the fall of 1838. Twelve-year-old Jake Webber and his family have arrived in Wiscasset, Maine, from Boston. Jake’s father…
Wolf’s Temptation
It is 1776 and Ethan Gray, a spymaster called the Wolf, is on the hunt for a smuggler shipping arms…
Mr Midshipman Fury
Ah, at last a new series dealing with the adventures you could have aboard a ship during what Marryat called…
The Water Devil
Riley completes her Margaret of Ashbury trilogy (A Vision of Light and In Pursuit of the Green Lion being the…
Love in a Bottle
Sophie Andrews is more interested in botany than in her parents’ plan to marry her off advantageously, as befitting a…
In Pursuit of the Green Lion
The first two novels in Riley’s highly entertaining trilogy about the adventures of Margaret of Ashbury have recently been reissued…
In the Last Blue
The story of the Majorcan Jews in the time of the Inquisition during the 17th century is one with which…
The Prophet
Hugely popular inspirational writer Francine Rivers turns her prolific pen to the prophet Amos in this short novella that forms…
Paper Woman
Set during the American Revolution, Paper Woman follows Sophie Barton’s attempts to learn the truth behind the murders of her…
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