HNR Issue 30 (November 2004)
Rachel & Leah
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Third in Card’s Women of Genesis series, Rachel & Leah is the story of the four women who become the wives and ...Read Review
Song of Miriam
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Song of Miriam is the tale of a young and beautiful Jewess destined to take her place among royal society in Russia. Set ...Read Review
The Divine Husband
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Akin to Ernesto Sabato’s On Heroes and Tombs, this novel is enormous in scope. But if Sabato paints the portrait of a ...Read Review
Deuces Wild
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This first novel in a new western action series suffers from too many unrelated plot lines and a surprisingly passive hero. In the ...Read Review
The Laments
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A baby is born to a quirky family in Rhodesia in the 1950s. His mother Julia was the terror of her private school. ...Read Review
A Cold Touch of Ice
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This is Michael Pearce’s thirteenth Mamur Zapt mystery set in Cairo in 1912 when the British governed Egypt. The Mamur Zapt is the ...Read Review
Blackbird House
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Just before the Revolutionary War, a fisherman builds a cottage on the remote tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for the woman he loves. ...Read Review
The Last Duel
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A few days after Christmas 1386, a crowd gathers at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight to the death in a judicial ...Read Review
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The Fifth of March is essentially a pre-Revolutionary War tale about the value of forming our own choices and the uncertainty that accompanies ...Read Review
Perpetua: A Bride, A Martyr, A Passion
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In Carthage of the 3rd century AD, Perpetua, the young daughter of a Roman nobleman and scholar, finds Jesus and enters a community ...Read Review
