HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Vashti
When two assistant curators die unexpectedly of gastric influenza, Tansy Clark’s retired policeman father asks her to investigate, and she…
The Terror
Editors' choice
In 1845, two ships of the Royal Navy, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, led by Sir John Franklin,…
Man of War
In 1827 the Battle of Trafalgar is twenty years in the past and the everlasting peace in Europe, which was…
Heyday
For those who enjoyed Kurt Andersen’s Turn of the Century, with its picture of New York City around the year…
All Will Be Revealed
Verena Swann mourns her late husband, Captain Theodore Swann, who died during an Arctic expedition, by channeling his spirit and…
Endure My Heart
When gently born Mab and Andrew Anderson’s father dies leaving them penniless, brother and sister are forced to sell the…
Landsman
In 1861, an orphaned Jewish son of an indentured servant joins the Third Louisiana Infantry. Elias Abrams is on the…
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici
Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating…
The Last Empress
Set in the twilight days of Imperial China, The Last Empress continues the tale begun in Empress Orchid: the life…
The Blackest Bird
On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York…
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