HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
Nobody’s Princess
Helen of Sparta is in many ways a typical young girl: she dislikes learning the boring carding and spinning…
Chances
Ambitious, intelligent Sarah Donovan is the only female telegrapher in Denver. Though she is skilled at her job, she hasn’t…
Nobody’s Prize
Readers may be familiar with the legends and myths of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Medea, Hercules, and Helen…
The Quiet Gun : A Western Duo
In “Montana Manhunter,” Deputy U.S. Marshal Chad Greene pursues an outlaw to the ranch of a young woman named Margaret…
Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill, a poet in her own right, has fashioned a book of verse worthy of her subject. In chronological…
Sun of Silver, Moon of Gold
Editors' choice
In 1837, following her father’s death, Flora Scott is not surprised when her family decides to send her to the…
This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard University, provides us with an extraordinarily well-researched and superbly written…
Hazel
(1) London, 1913. Thirteen-year-old Hazel Mull-Dare is being brought up as a young lady – in careful isolation from anything…
Listen to the Mockingbird
Every good mystery begins with a murder, and Penny Rudolph’s Listen to the Mockingbird doesn’t disappoint: a young stranger…
A Daughter’s Inheritance
Set in upstate New York (Rochester and Broadmoor Island, a fictional island in the Thousand Island region of the St.…
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