HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
Above All Things
Editors' choice
Canadian writer Tanis Rideout’s debut novel, Above All Things, is a beautifully written book mapping the distinct yet intertwined journeys…
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The swashbuckling heroes in Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo have stirred the imaginations of…
Sacred Treason
This is the first volume in a trilogy of political thrillers set in Elizabethan England. The protagonist, William Harley, although…
A Roman Rescue
Ancient Rome. Young Charlie and his dog Bandit fall down a hole and find themselves in Rome during the reign…
The Painted Bridge
In 1859 London, Anna Palmer is committed to an insane asylum by her minister husband. She is not psychotic but…
Alexandra’s Secret
Eighteen-year-old Alexandra Cockrell wants to save people from experiencing the same Nazi brutality that killed her grandparents in Belgium. Her…
The Headmaster’s Wager
Percival Chen is the Chinese headmaster of an English-language school in Cholon, Vietnam, in the 1960s; he has run the…
Park Lane
This novel has its origins in Frances Osborne’s own family background, and an inevitable comparison to the TV series Downton…
When We Argued All Night
Along a lake in the Adirondack Mountains near a cabin in the woods, Artie Saltzman and Harold Abramowitz, friends since…
American Ghost
Hendrix, Florida, is a poverty-stricken town haunted by a 1930s lynching of a young man and his family. Jolie Hoyt…
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