HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)
A Passion Redeemed
In 1919, this second Daughters of Boston novel focuses on Charity O’Connor, who sets her sights on the crabby Mitch…
The Given Day
Set against the waning years of World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the increasingly turbulent social changes…
Havah: The Story of Eve
A whisper in my ear. Wake! Much has been written about Eve (called Havah in this novel), the seductress who…
Dearest
In 1872, Anne, a small-town milliner, meets a wealthy engineer from Pittsburgh while on an Ohioan riverboat. After sharing a…
The Piano Teacher
Claire and Martin Pendleton arrive in Hong Kong: Martin to work in “water,” and Claire to teach piano to Locket,…
Eve: A Novel Of The First Woman
The Old Testament tale of Eve informs this imaginative, poetic novel of what the first woman’s life might have been…
The Lost Throne
Built high on the natural rock of Thessaly in Greece are a series of six monasteries, once there were more.…
Cardigan Bay
Cardigan Bay is both an old-fashioned romance and an espionage thriller. When I say “old fashioned,” I mean that the…
Infinity In The Palm of Her Hand
Editors' choice
Gioconda Belli’s daring feat of climbing inside the world of Adam and Eve, from their creation through the fall and…
The Ladies’ Lending Library
Kalyna Beach is the summer home of a close-knit group of Ukranian Canadian women and their children. The women meet…
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