HNR Issue 20 (May 2002)

Circle of Stars

By Anna Lee Waldo - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

We are immediately thrust into a Calusa village in 1151 A.D. in what is now Florida. The land is productive, but the elements ...Read Review

Sparrowhawk, Book One: John Frake

By Edward Cline - Published 2001

Genres:

Literary

The first of a series of novels depicting the roots of the American Revolution, Book One takes place entirely in England, which is ...Read Review

The Devil in Bellminster

By David Holland - Published 2002

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in 1833 Bellminster, England, there is a murderer on the loose, and the vicar, Reverend Tuckworth, may be the only person capable of ...Read Review

Gettysburg

By James Reasoner - Published 2001

Genres:

MilitarySaga

This is the sixth in a continuing series of ten novels chronicling the battles of the Civil War and their effect on the ...Read Review

Eureka

By William Diehl - Published 2002

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

I not only devoured this book, I went out and bought four others written by this author and have since read three of ...Read Review

Behold, This Dreamer

By Charlotte Miller - Published 2000

Genres:

This is the first in a trilogy that will take readers through the life of Janson Sanders. Through her artful storytelling, Charlotte Miller ...Read Review

Salt

By Isabel Zuber - Published 2002

Genres:

Saga

Young Anna Stockton’s childhood ends when she is sent to work for a well-to-do family. Her employers’ tragedy ends that job, but ...Read Review

Alexandra: The Last Tsarina

By Carolly Erickson - Published 2001

Genres:

Nonfiction

The author of thirteen previous books, Carolly Erickson approaches the story of Alexandra, the Tsarina who was assassinated during the Bolshevik Revolution in 1918, ...Read Review

A Falcon’s Heart

By Jayel Wylie - Published 2001

Genres:

Romance

This romance is set in 1154-5, the period immediately following Henry II’s coronation, right after the prolonged and bloody civil war described ...Read Review

The Measure of the World

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans.) - By Denis Guedj - Published 2001

Genres:

Literary

In June, 1792, two astronomers set off from Paris on what proves to be a six-year mission–to survey the meridian running through France ...Read Review