HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In…
Shadow of Night
Vampires, witches, and daemons once again unite and wage war in this second of Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy. Beginning…
Dust Girl
On April 14, 1935, the worst dust storm ever recorded blows across Kansas. That is the day that Calliope LeRoux’s…
Clair de Lune
What was life like for a 25-year-old female junior college professor in Missouri in 1941? America has not entered the…
Kaltenburg
There are some people who dominate the lives of others. Ludwig Kaltenburg is such a person. His tale is narrated…
Racing the Moon
It’s 1947 and 11-year-old Alexis Hart wants to be the next Amelia Earhart. She and her 17-year-old brother Chuck have…
Istanbul was a Fairytale
First published in 1999 in Turkish, İstanbul Bir masaldı won Turkey’s prestigious Yunus Nadi Novel Award in 2000. The novel…
The King’s Concubine
Set in England in 1362, The King’s Concubine is the story of Alice Perrers, the infamous mistress of King Edward…
Thieftaker
America is not a popular setting for historical fiction these days— a shame, especially as our history is rife with…
Hide Me Among the Graves
In the winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a reformed prostitute, knocks on the door of John Crawford, a widowed veterinarian…
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