Editors' Choice
Promise the Night
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Anyone who has ever read the gorgeous West with the Night by Beryl Markham may doubt the need for a young adult novel ...Read Review
Love Child
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After her lawyer advises Bill to write her will, the beautiful, wealthy widow sets out to examine her life and the people around ...Read Review
Egypt: The Book of Chaos
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Tutankhamun is dead and his queen, Ankhesenamun, has married Ay, who is now old and ailing and not likely to live much longer. ...Read Review
The Lantern
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The prologue to this novel leads you to believe that it may be a takeoff on Du Maurier’s Rebecca, but this wonderful ...Read Review
Breaking Stalin’s Nose
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Ten-year-old Sasha wants nothing more than to become a member of the Young Pioneers – the corps of Soviet school children devoted to serving ...Read Review
Defender of Rome
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Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the campaigns against the Britons a changed man. He is a Hero of Rome but remains ...Read Review
Angels at War
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Rarely, in all my years of reviewing for the HNS, have I come across such a masterly historical romance with a brilliantly set ...Read Review
Lionheart
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The title of Sharon Kay Penman’s highly anticipated new novel, Lionheart, says it all. This is the story of Richard Plantagenet: king, ...Read Review
The Lost Wife
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I struggled with a review that would do this gorgeous book justice. Richman takes what could be a sorrowful story and renders it ...Read Review
The Queen’s Gamble
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Isabel Valverde, her husband, Carlos, and her son Nicolas travel to England from Peru in the New World in the mid-1500s. Isabel’...Read Review
