HNR Issue 28 (May 2004)
Hadassah: One Night with the King
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When King Xerxes of Persia orders his beautiful queen, Vashti, to appear before his guests, she refuses to display herself, and the king ...Read Review
Cassandra, Lost
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When Baltimore heiress Cassandra Owings’ father denies her permission to marry Lieutenant Benedict van Pradelles, the handsome, older Frenchman she adores, the pair ...Read Review
To Make Men Free: A Novel of the Battle of Antietam
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Despite the fact that the U.S. Civil War Battle of Antietam was the single bloodiest day in the history of North America, ...Read Review
The Ideal Bride
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Michael Anstruther-Wetherby, Devil Cynster’s brother-in-law, Member of Parliament, bachelor, has been tapped for a cabinet position providing he marries before Parliament opens ...Read Review
Hazard’s Command
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The Royal Navy of the Crimean War is hardly the place where historical novels go for seaborne adventure, but V.A. Stuart’s ...Read Review
Long George Alley
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A chorus of voices revolves, each taking a turn to reveal the story of Long George Alley, a black ghetto in Mississippi. There’...Read Review
The Affair of the Incognito Tenant
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When Charlotte Dodson’s husband dies suddenly, leaving her a widow with a young son, she is fortunate to find a position as ...Read Review
When it was our War: A Soldier’s Wife on the Home Front
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A sequel to The Jew Store (1998), this chatty and delightful memoir, filled with authentic period detail, chronicles the life of a small-town Southern ...Read Review
The Last King
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Ford’s subtitle “Rome’s Greatest Enemy” applies to Mithridates, the King of Pontus who wore Persian dress while attempting to establish a ...Read Review
Shadowbrook
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This is an ambitious epic of the tumultuous 1750s, when Englishmen battled the French for ultimate control of North America. Quentin Hale, younger ...Read Review