HNR Issue 19 (February 2002)
Spanish Jack
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This is the eleventh book in the acclaimed Real People series that describes the history of the Cherokee Nation (“The Real People”) from ...Read Review
French Leave
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Lisette Colling, escaping from a French convent to avoid a forced marriage, literally runs into an unexpected savior: the dissolute sixth earl of ...Read Review
The Clouds Above
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This extremely affecting novel follows Len, an RAF Sergeant pilot, his friend Tad, a Polish pilot serving in the RAF, Stella, a WAAF ...Read Review
The Swan House
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“There are some tragedies too great, some shocks too severe, for the human spirit to understand and encompass at once.” The author refers ...Read Review
Ill Met By Moonlight
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When young schoolmaster William Shakespeare’s wife and child are discovered missing, he assumes they must be off visiting family. A later walk ...Read Review
Daughter of Ireland
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This is Osborne-McKnight’s second foray into the world of Celtic storytelling (I Am of Irelaunde, Issue 12). An accomplished folklorist, the author has ...Read Review
The Royal Physician’s Visit
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“On April 5, 1768, Johann Friedrich Struensee was appointed Royal Physician to King Christian VII of Denmark, and four years later he was executed.” So ...Read Review
To Tame a Wild Heart
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Although this novel is set in the Scottish Highlands in 1813, it begins with a flashback to 1796 when the Duke of Argyll’s wife ...Read Review
The Last Canyon
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In the first of two parallel stories, John Vernon chronicles Major John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition through the Great Canyon. On May 23, Powell ...Read Review
Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings
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Hall’s latest novel is set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Journalist/sleuth Ambrose Bierce and sidekick Tom Redmond are fervently seeking a missing ...Read Review