HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
Hush
Hush: An Irish Princess Tale is the next title in Donna Jo Napoli’s growing list of young adult retellings. Many…
The Highwayman’s Footsteps
Inspired by the famous poem by Alfred Noyes, ‘The Highwayman’, this novel is about a young upper-class boy, William de…
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
“But words, Mrs. Keller, words bridge the gaps between two minds. Words are a miracle.” Comforting Helen Keller’s mother, Anne…
Mississippi Jack
Jacky Faber, the irrepressible Napoleonic-era street-urchin-turned-ship’s-boy-turned-fine-lady-turned pirate, is once again in the thick of trouble in this fifth installment of…
Farewell, Shanghai
In the late 1930s, Jews were fleeing Germany and other European countries; in response to both propaganda and local politics,…
The Street Of A Thousand Blossoms
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a family saga set in a suburb of Tokyo, which begins in the…
Long Shadows
Alice Chase, once a Londoner and now, in 1939, the wife of Walter, a saw mill worker in Somerset, contends…
First There Is A River
This tale is set in 1900 on an Ohio River paddlewheeler. Emma Perkins is married to a violent husband who…
Stream Of Death
This is the first paperback edition of Stream of Death. The story is set in bucolic Peekamoose Heights, a village…
The Summer Garden
Set at the end of the Second World War, this is the conclusion to a saga that was set in…
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