HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
American Ghost
Hendrix, Florida, is a poverty-stricken town haunted by a 1930s lynching of a young man and his family. Jolie Hoyt…
The Prisoner of Heaven
Faithful readers of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game will be delighted to find…
The Harbour
A young American journalist is in Hong Kong primarily to write a society gossip book about the Soong sisters, three…
Frozen
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose remembers very little of the time before she went to live with the Worthingtons at age five;…
The Time of the Wolf: A Novel of Medieval England
The landmark year 1066 has given nourishment to many historical novelists, including now the first-time historical novel author James Wilde.…
The Mongoliad: Book Two
The year is 1241, the year in which the Mongolians crossed into Europe and began conquering its territories. The reigning…
The Minotaur’s Head
Fans of the wonderful Polish crime writer Marek Krajewski will be thrilled at this, his latest story in translation, featuring…
Money and the Middle Ages
This is a scholarly, yet brief and readable, study of the development and use of money in the High Middle…
The Bathing Women
Four women come of age amid Mao’s Cultural Revolution in a small village near Beijing. Taio is a children’s book…
Daughter of Fortune
After the death of her parents, Maria Espinosa flees Mexico City with a supply caravan headed for the Spanish colony…
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