HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
Snow Falling on Cedars
In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged…
Enduring
Editors' choice
The novel encompasses the breadth of the 20th century as it follows the life of Latha Bourne, a resident of…
The Foreign Field
Editors' choice
This is the 31st installment in Harrod-Eagles’ Morland Dynasty series, which traces 500 years of British history from the point…
Race for the Dying
Thomas Parks of Connecticut, newly graduated from a prestigious medical school back East, arrives in Port McKinney, Washington in 1891…
What Remains of Heaven
Regency London is stunned by the murder of the bishop, Sir Francis Prescott. Responding to the request of his aunt…
A Bride in the Bargain
In 1865, the land of Seattle, Washington Territory, belongs to landowners with wives: a married man can acquire 640 acres…
Lady Vernon and Her Daughter
Lady Vernon and Her Daughter shares the distinction with Sense and Sensibility of being based on characters created by Jane…
The Unbelievers
In Victorian Edinburgh in an age when the Highlands were being cleared of the local peasants in order for the…
Okei: A Girl from the Provinces
The old ways of the Shogunate dynasty in the late 1800s are coming to a violent end. Three Western Japanese…
The Jade Cat
The Løvin family has survived world-changing events, including two world wars and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, but…
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