HNR Issue 27 (February 2004)
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder
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In the New Jersey river port of New Brunswick, the town inhabitants had a front row seat of the war action in early 1777. ...Read Review
Saving Louisa
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Saving Louisa is a descriptive title, describing the action and alluding to a less than tragic ending. This is the second book featuring ...Read Review
The Exile
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Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish exile, lived a life so turbulent that Richard Wheeler never once exaggerates in narrating the rebel’s story. ...Read Review
Roadwalkers
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Many books try to describe the life of the marginal and the lost beyond civilization, but Roadwalkers clinches it. The first section plausibly ...Read Review
Soumchi
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Soumchi should be considered the definition of a novella. It’s 53 pages of compact, dazzling brilliance. It is a simple story which conveys ...Read Review
River of Fire
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Originally published in 1959 as Aag ka Darya; English edition “transcreated from the original Urdu by the author.” A sweeping saga that covers over ...Read Review
The Labors of Aeneas (What a Pain It Was to Found the Roman Race)
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This is Vergil’s famous propaganda piece, the Aeneid, cheerfully made accessible to a modern reader who wouldn’t glance at a ...Read Review
Ironfire
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Set during the 16th century on both the isle of Malta, home of the ancient order of the Knights of St. John, and ...Read Review
Warrior Woman
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The story of Nonhelema needs to be told. A Shawnee whose name means “Not a Man,” she lived during the Revolutionary War and ...Read Review
The Missing Marchioness
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It’s autumn in 1812 and while Marcus Cleeve, Lord Angmaring, is betting his friends that he will never marry, Louise Cleeve, Marchioness of ...Read Review