HNR Issue 23 (February 2003)

A Cycle of the West

By John G. Neihardt - Published 2002

Genres:

Short StoriesWestern

A Cycle of the West is a unique publication. It is an epic poem; a saga of early America; and an action-packed western. ...Read Review

October Suite

By Maxine Clair - Published 2002

Genres:

Literary

Self-named October Brown begins her career as a novice schoolteacher in Kansas in 1950. While living in a boarding house, she falls in love ...Read Review

1949

By Morgan Llywelyn - Published 2003

Genres:

Saga

In 1949, Morgan Llywelyn continues the saga of the Halloran and Mooney families, introduced to readers in her previous novels, 1916 and 1921. Although this epic ...Read Review

The Conquest

By Yxta Maya Murray - Published 2002

Genres:

Adventure

Sara Rosario González is a rare book restorer at the Getty Museum in modern-day Los Angeles. An attractive young Chicana fascinated by ...Read Review

The Door in the Wall

By Benita Kane Jaro - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In the foreground of this novel, Marcus Caelius Rufus commands an outpost in Italy while he tries to pick the winner of the ...Read Review

My Father Had a Daughter: Judith Shakespeare’s Tale

By Grace Tiffany - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

  To the world, William Shakespeare was a sought-after playwright, a man of ability and wit. But to his children, he was a ...Read Review

Uncivil Death

By M. E. Cooper - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Drowning in detail, the story lumbers forward as Lieutenant Conley, fictional aide to the historical Confederate General William Wing Loring, seeks to find ...Read Review

Prairie Moon

By Maggie Osborne - Published 2002

Genres:

RomanceWestern

Civil War widow Della Ward has found a refuge of sorts on a Texas farm. Determined to eke out an existence, she gamely ...Read Review

Star Quality

By Joan Collins - Published 2002

Genres:

Saga

Star Quality is a saga of four generations of women who become actresses, and each in her own way achieves stardom. It begins ...Read Review

Buddha Wept

By Rocco Lo Bosco - Published 2002

Genres:

EpicLiterary

This is the story of Ona Ny, who was born in a city about twenty miles south of Phnom Penh. Her name came ...Read Review