HNR Issue 18 (November 2001)
Unspoken
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King David of Israel has it all: wealth, power, women, and the love of God. But when he spies a beautiful woman bathing ...Read Review
My Name is Red
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A man called Black, returning to Istanbul to resume work as a miniaturist in his uncle’s studio, soon discovers that all is ...Read Review
The Bad Luck Wedding Night
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This light romantic read, part of a series with the “bad luck” wedding theme, begins by sustaining the narrative of the wedding night ...Read Review
Gracelin O’Malley
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Gracelin O’Malley is a farmer’s daughter living a hard life in rural Ireland when she catches the eye of the local ...Read Review
McAuslan Entire
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Volume contains: The General Danced at Dawn (1970), McAuslan in the Rough (1974), The Sheikh and the Dustbin (1988) Hoorah! The hilarious sage of McAuslan, the ...Read Review
Grand Ambition
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In November 1928, with minimal supplies and a homemade boat, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde left Green River, Utah with the goal of running ...Read Review
Visible Spirits
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In the Mississippi Delta where plantations were carved from forest, Jim Crow challenges Reconstruction. It is 1902 and echoes of field chants, like threads ...Read Review
They Call Me Agnes
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Crow family life and culture and the changes wrought by the 20th century and reservation life are described in the words of Crow ...Read Review
Kleopatra
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Karen Essex has written a well researched, engrossing account of Kleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt. Like most stories of this ...Read Review
The Company: The Story of a Murderer
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Jeronimus Cornelisz is a disturbed, and disturbing, man. Ambitious, cunning, ruthless, amoral, and greedy, Cornelisz is also a killer. After experiencing a series ...Read Review