HNR Issue 30 (November 2004)
The Captain’s Vengeance
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The twelfth volume in the Alan Lewrie naval series finds the intrepid Royal Navy Captain involved in Foreign Office-sponsored undercover work in New ...Read Review
A Watery Grave
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AdventureMystery/CrimeNautical
In August 1838, the US Exploring Expedition left Hampton, Virginia, to explore the South Seas. Lt. Charles Wilkes commanded six ships with a crew ...Read Review
Together is All We Need
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“All night, all day, angels watching over me,” a traditional hymn, exemplifies the conflict for Katie Clairborne, Mayme, and Emma as they again ...Read Review
The Castlemaine Murders
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Of the thirteen Phryne Fisher mysteries, this one’s the most recent, and the third to be published in the U.S. by ...Read Review
The Falls
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Niagara Falls, 1950, is the “honeymoon capital” of America for happy newlyweds, and miserable ones, too. Mrs. Ariah Erskine was married less than twenty-four ...Read Review
While I Disappear
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Set in postwar Los Angeles, While I Disappear is Wright’s second novel featuring former B-western actor John Ray Horn and his friend ...Read Review
Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott’s Antarctic Quest
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Fiennes delves into Robert F. Scott’s fatal (yet successful) race to the South Pole in 1901 and again in 1911 (the deadly expedition) and ...Read Review
Mary, Bloody Mary
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This story gives voice to Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII, as a young adult. Mary begins by expressing her anger at being ...Read Review
He Who Lifts the Skies
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The Great Flood is over, and the world is rapidly rebuilding itself. Keren and her sister Sharah, great-great-granddaughters of the ark-building patriarch Noakh, ...Read Review
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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First published in 1818, The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the story of the Deans sisters, daughters of a prosperous farmer of the Edinburgh countryside ...Read Review
