HNR Issue 33 (August 2005)
The Falcon of Palermo
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This author’s first novel is a fictional biography of the legendary Frederick II, who ruled as Holy Roman Emperor for the first ...Read Review
Whence Came a Prince
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It is 1790 in Galloway, Scotland. Leana McBride lives at her aunt’s cottage, nursing a broken heart, after the Kirk declared her marriage ...Read Review
Ashes of Dreams
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Excellent characterizations set this historical romance apart. In 1887 Kentucky, widowed Amanda Jeffrey struggles to keep her husband’s dream of a thriving horse ...Read Review
Lie By Moonlight
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Concordia Glade must help the four orphaned young ladies she is tutoring escape from the castle-turned-prison where they live. She recently changed their ...Read Review
The Poet of Tolstoy Park
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In 1925, when Henry Stuart learns that he is terminally ill with tuberculosis, he proceeds to do a most natural act: he takes off ...Read Review
Small Island
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In 1948, Hortense Joseph arrives in London to join her new husband, Gilbert, who has promised her a bright future there. They have both ...Read Review
This Dame for Hire
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Two blurbs by other authors on the cover of this one call it “noir” and “pulp,” but I beg to differ. Just because ...Read Review
Revolutionary Mothers
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Americans tend to think of the War for Independence as a revolution, but in reality it was a civil war. Many men participants ...Read Review
Bound
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Don’t expect the typical Cinderella story, with a fairy godmother, two stepsisters, and a glorious ball in Donna Jo Napoli’s Bound. ...Read Review
Nectar from a Stone
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Medieval Wales is one era I know well, and so I approached this novel with a critical eye. Set in 1351, when the Black ...Read Review