HNR Issue 32 (May 2005)
Mountain Shadows
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It gets cold in the mountains. If you’re poor and tubercular, like Alice Devlin, it gets even colder. Alice journeys to the ...Read Review
Homeward My Heart
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World War II is over, but Stalin’s increasingly paranoid behavior has fashioned Russian society into a consistently fearful and dangerous place. The ...Read Review
The Secrets of Jin-Shei
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“Mine was the time of love and fire, of pain, of loss, of joy, of grief, of greed and arrogance and dreams and ...Read Review
Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
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The story of Waterloo has been the subject of scholarly and popular history books since the smoke cleared from the battlefield on the ...Read Review
The Odyssey of Homer
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I first read The Odyssey in a child’s version that may have been meager, but was certainly sufficient to begin a lifetime ...Read Review
Ride the Fire
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Nicholas Kenleigh is a broken, guilt-ridden man. When he arrives at Bethie Stewart’s cabin with a serious injury, she is eight months ...Read Review
Breath and Bones
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This second novel by Ms. Cokal, following Mirabilis in 2002, has similarities to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters in that ...Read Review
Rebels of Babylon
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Major Jones has arrived in New Orleans during the height of the Civil War to solve a murder of a young woman. Unfortunately, ...Read Review
Sick of Shadows
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Chesney continues the adventures of Lady Rose Summer and her fiancé of convenience, private investigator Captain Harry Cathcart, in the third installment of ...Read Review
Blood Moon Over Bengal
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The old fighter plane piloted by Elizabeth Mainwarring comes limping in to the parade ground in Calcutta, barely avoiding a crash landing. Elizabeth, ...Read Review