HNR Issue 30 (November 2004)

Song of my Soul

By Ginny Aiken - Published 2004

Genres:

InspirationalMystery/CrimeRomance

In 1893, Adrian Gamble, new owner of the Heart of Silver Mine, arrives in Hartville, Colorado, and promptly becomes a romantic target for the ...Read Review

Ahab’s Bride

By Louise M. Gouge - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

In 1837, when eighteen-year-old Hannah Oldweiler meets fifty-year-old Captain Ahab, she is completely smitten. The renowned whaling man soon succumbs to Hannah’s charms. ...Read Review

Murder in a Mill Town

By P.B. Ryan - Published 2004

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This mystery, set in 1868 in Boston and nearby Charlestown, is the second for Nell Sweeney. She is the governess to the Hewitt family, ...Read Review

Following the Harvest

By Fred Harris - Published 2004

Genres:

Adventure

This coming-of-age novel is set in the prairie states in the summer of 1943. Will Haley, nearly sixteen, takes a summer job with his ...Read Review

The Egyptologist

By Arthur Phillips - Published 2004

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

To quote one of the characters, this is a tale of “an odd-duck inheritance task, then it was a missing-person case with a ...Read Review

The Tree Bride

By Bharati Mukherjee - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

Present and past entwine in The Tree Bride as Tara Chatterjee, a modern Indian woman living in America, seeks the truth behind her ...Read Review

Elizabeth’s London

By Liza Picard - Published 2003Published 2004

Genres:

Nonfiction

The subtitle of this book is “Everyday life in Elizabethan London,” which describes the contents perfectly. Drawing upon contemporary sources and extensively footnoted, ...Read Review

Finishing Becca

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

One of the best features of this young adult novel is the fine descriptive contrast of poor and wealthy in its American Revolution ...Read Review

The Haunted Abbot

By Peter Tremayne - Published 2003Published 2004

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the eleventh installment in the highly praised Sister Fidelma series created by prominent Celtic authority, Peter Tremayne a/k/a Peter ...Read Review

A Beggar at the Gate

By Thalassa Ali - Published 2004

Genres:

Romance

A Beggar at the Gate continues the adventures of Mariana Givens, a well-educated, unorthodox young Englishwoman who was sent to India in 1838. Mariana’...Read Review