HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
Bright Dark Madonna
Maiden Maeve on her native Celtic isle (in volume one of The Maeve Chronicles) seemed to have a relationship with…
Betray the Night: A Novel about Ovid
By the year 8 CE, Augustus Caesar has ruled Rome for over thirty years, and the Republic is slowly becoming…
Luke’s Story: Book Three of the Jesus Chronicles
This biblical novel, the third in the Jesus Chronicles series, seeks to flesh out the people we know only from…
Cast Not the Day
The central character of this book, set in the middle of the 4th century AD, is Drusus, a young British…
The Kingmaking
This first installment in the Pendragon’s Banner trilogy is a pure delight in every way. Claiming to be “a novel…
Twilight of Avalon
Editors' choice
In Arthurian fiction, queens tend to fall into two groups: the powerful and the powerless. Anna Elliott places Isolde among…
T4: A Novel
The title refers to the Nazi plan, hatched at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin, to eliminate the disabled in the name…
The King’s Rose
As The King’s Rose opens, fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard has a new suitor—Henry VIII, who soon plans to make her his…
The Devil’s Paintbox
Orphaned and starving, sixteen-year-old Aiden Lynch and his younger sister Maddy struggle to survive on their family’s dried up Kansas…
The Smile
The Smile is the next title in Donna Jo Napoli’s growing list of young adult novels. Many of her previous…
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