HNR Issue 27 (February 2004)
Cupid and the Silent Goddess
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In 1544, Duke Cosimo de’ Medici of Florence commissioned the artist Bronzino to paint a gift for King François I of France. The ...Read Review
Victory
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Coonts, I believe, is wrong in saying there have been three American wars that have been the “defining experience of their generation. World ...Read Review
A Poultice for a Healer
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Loyal followers of the life of Isaac the blind physician take up the tale in 1354 where the 7th novel in the series opens. ...Read Review
The Honourable Earl
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Set in 1763, this is the romance of Lydia Fostyn and the Earl of Blackwater. Lydia is being pressured into marrying a wealthy but ...Read Review
Every Fixed Star
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Jane Kirkpatrick continues the fictional account of Marie Dorion and her amazing life in this sequel to A Name of Her Own. In 1814, ...Read Review
The Friendly Persuasion
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The reader who picks this up having seen “Civil War” on the cover and hoping for tales of cannon shot and screaming horses ...Read Review
Mother Road
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A 1930s Oklahoma gas station on the fabled Route 66 is the setting for this romance between the home-rooted Leona and traveling man Yates. ...Read Review
The Manhattan Island Clubs
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Retired Sheriff John LeBrun of Brunswick, Georgia has established a certain reputation among the movers and shakers of New York commerce. After solving ...Read Review
The Salt Roads
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It takes a powerful author to tie together the stories of a Nubian prostitute in ancient Jerusalem, a black showgirl in 19th-century Paris, ...Read Review
The Sacred Land
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Sostratos and Menedemos, the young Rhodian merchants and owners of the Aphrodite, are not afraid to take their ship where no other trader ...Read Review