HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
Call Me Charlie
Prior to the onset of the American Civil War, Kansas Jayhawkers attacked proslavery farms in Missouri. When the war began,…
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
This sprawling tale isn’t so much about Agustin de Iturbide y Green, the grandson of the first Mexican Emperor, Agustin…
The Sound of Building Coffins
In 1891 New Orleans, a black preacher named Noonday Morningstar, with the help of his son Typhus, saves the infant…
To Play the Fox: A Novel of Fighter Pilots in World War Two
The fighter pilots in question are an urbane Englishman, a licentious American, and a cynical German. We follow their wayward…
Winston’s War: A Novel of Deception
Following upon the success of Never Surrender, this is another of Michael Dobbs’s previously published novels centering on pivotal moments…
Silent on the Moor
Editors' choice
Widowed Lady Julia Grey returns in this third outing to openly pursue Nicholas Brisbane, a private investigator she first encountered…
A Promise for Spring
In 1874 a tearful Emmaline Bradford traveled from her home in England to the plains of Kansas to meet her…
The Nonesuch
Georgette Heyer has been called the queen of Regency romance and rightly so. Her substantial research and attention to detail…
Regency Buck
Judith Taverner and her brother, Peregrine, find themselves under the guardianship of the mysterious Lord Worth following their father’s untimely…
The Talisman Ring
Miss Thane, the sensible female in Georgette Heyer’s The Talisman Ring, sums up the problem for her rather thick brother,…
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