HNR Issue 32 (May 2005)
My Story Being This
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The 1770s Rhode Island setting and community of free people of color is wonderfully evoked in this “writing book” of a woman whose ...Read Review
Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers
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Coleman demonstrates again why she’s one of my favorite western writers. Allie Earp was the petite, feisty, and loving wife of Virgil ...Read Review
The Retreat
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The Grande Armée that swept into Russia in summer 1812 was a diverse and powerful force of some 600,000 soldiers. They came from France ...Read Review
The Vanishing Moon
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The endless possibilities for employment and prosperity after World War I slowly begin to crumble in the Great Depression. Indeed, symbolically and potently, ...Read Review
Rosa
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Set in early post-WWI Berlin, this detective story starts like so many others: with a corpse. And like many others, this one involves ...Read Review
The Dark Queen
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Ariane Cheney is a Daughter of the Earth, one of a group of women revered for their wisdom, knowledge of the healing arts, ...Read Review
The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
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One would be hard-pressed to find a more disingenuous title for a book, as Jean Godin was more gofer than mapmaker, the majority ...Read Review
The Scourge of God
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Dietrich, author of the excellent Hadrian’s Wall, has once again brought the Roman Empire to life. It is 451, and the Empire is ...Read Review
Daughter of Liberty
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Elizabeth Howard is the respectable daughter of a Tory-leaning family in 1775 Boston by day, but by night she transforms into the wily courier ...Read Review
The Glass Virgin
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Young Annabella Lagrange, the only child of wealthy parents, lives a secluded life of privilege on a north England estate shielded from life’...Read Review
