HNR Issue 33 (August 2005)

The Falcon of Palermo

By Maria R. Bordihn - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

By Liz Curtis Higgs - Published 2005

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

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

By Ruth Ryan Langan - Published 2005

Genres:

Romance

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

By Amanda Quick - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

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

By Sonny Brewer - Published 2005

Genres:

Literary

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

By Andrea Levy - Published 2005

Genres:

Literary

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

By Sandra Scoppettone - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Carol Berkin - Published 2005

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Donna Jo Napoli - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Jane Guill - Published 2005

Genres:

Romance

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

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