HNR Issue 24 (May 2003)
Patrick: Son of Ireland
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An autobiographical narrative can create an effective historical novel, but combining this form with hagiography poses the problem of the bragging saint. Irish ...Read Review
Sparrowhawk: Book Two, Hugh Kenrick
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In this second novel of a series, the reader is introduced to Hugh Kenrick, a young man born into high society – but this ...Read Review
Signal and Noise
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This is an epic novel of adventure, love and history that sweeps between two continents and a grand cast of characters. The story ...Read Review
Daughter of the Loom
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The textile factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts at the dawn of the American Industrial Revolution is home to twenty year-old Lilly Armbruster, but ...Read Review
The Kitchen Boy
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On the night of July 16, 1918, Empress Aleksandra recorded in her journal that the Romanovs’ kitchen boy, Leonka Sednyov, was mysteriously sent away. In ...Read Review
A Fine Dark Line
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On page 7, thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchel learns there is no Santa Claus, and he doesn’t like it. He ‘feels like a donkey’s ...Read Review
Sapphire’s Grave
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In 1749, a proud Sierra Leone woman was captured, shipped to the New World, and sold as a slave. Her beauty and defiance complicate ...Read Review
The Angel with One Hundred Wings: A Tale from the Arabian Nights
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Ninth-century Baghdad may be called “the City of Peace,” but it’s still a hotbed of intrigue and danger, as the Sultan’s ...Read Review
The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost
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Fans of Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester will find much to admire in this historical novel, set in 1776 on the coast ...Read Review
The Monsters of St. Helena
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The Monsters of St. Helena could be considered an island’s viewpoint of the events occurring within her precincts. It is not only ...Read Review
