HNR Issue 18 (November 2001)

Badger Boy

By Elmer Kelton - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureWestern

The Texas frontier, spring, 1865. So begins this latest historical western novel by one of the long-time giants in the field, Elmer Kelton. This ...Read Review

Carry Me Across the Water

By Ethan Canin - Published 2001

Genres:

Literary

In this chronicle of an American businessman who started life as a German Jewish refugee, the writing is full of insights. We are ...Read Review

Our Arcadia: An American Watercolor

By Robin Lippincott - Published 2001

Genres:

Saga

  Can a divorced mother, her best friend, her two young children, three artists and their various lovers live together in the same ...Read Review

Twelve Fingers

By Clifford E. Landers (trans.) - By Jo Soares - Published 2001

Genres:

Being born with twelve fingers portended that Dimitri “Dimo” Borja Korozec would become the world’s greatest assassin — or so thought his parents. ...Read Review

The Arthurian Companion (2nd ed.)

By Phyllis Ann Karr - Published 2001

Genres:

Nonfiction

Originally published in 1983 as a 100-page hardcover, The King Arthur Companion evolved to become an authoritative source for casual readers of Arthurian romances. ...Read Review

Her Infinite Variety: Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved

By Pamela Rafael Berkman - Published 2001

Genres:

Romance

Berkman’s first book is quite simply a celebration of the women in the world of William Shakespeare. With very little known about ...Read Review

Moon Medicine

By Mike Blakely - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureRomanceWestern

Honore Greenwood, by his own admission a genius, fled France for America after slaying a man who raped the woman he loved. At ...Read Review

The Sentimental Soldier

By April Kihlstrom - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeRomance

The mystery content of this Regency romance is slight but definitely present. Miss Prudence Marland, guised as a Moroccan prince, is rescued by ...Read Review

The Savage Night

By Mohammed Dib - Published 2001

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

This is a collection of thirteen short stories, some historical and some contemporary, that reflect a way of life and thinking totally alien ...Read Review

Rose of Nancemellin

By Malcolm MacDonald - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureRomance

At the heart of this entertaining upstairs-downstairs tale is an effervescent, energetic working-class heroine who accepts her place in the world but is ...Read Review