HNR Issue 58 (November 2011)
The Flower to the Painter
Alone at the age of 22 in late 19th-century Florence, with no living relatives and no dowry, the future of…
Becoming Marie Antoinette
Becoming Marie Antoinette, the first in a planned trilogy about the life of the Archduchess of Austria and Queen of…
The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City
Atlantic City, once a desolate seaside island with no access, was a developer’s dream. Over time, a fashionable resort for…
White Truffles in Winter
Editors' choice
Famed French chef Auguste Escoffier loves his wife Delphine, despite being separated for the majority of their marriage. Whether Escoffier…
Comes a Time for Burning
This second book about Dr. Thomas Parks, who practices medicine in 1892 in the Pacific Northwest, is just as enjoyable…
Sarah Thornhill
Sarah Thornhill is the sequel to Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel, The Secret River, which was set during the early years…
The Woman Who Heard Color
Lauren O’Farrell’s job in present-day New York as an “art detective” is to track down pieces lost during World War…
Paris Noire
Americans sometimes forget that racism also exists in other countries – even France, better known for welcoming African-American artists in…
The American Heiress
Cora Cash is a beautiful and fabulously wealthy young woman in the 1890s – the decadent Gilded Age. To escape…
Hellfire
August, 1942, North Africa. General Gott, the commander of the Eighth Army, is killed, and suspicion points to a previously…
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