HNR Issue 33 (August 2005)
People of the Raven
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Once again the Gears focus on a prehistoric population, this time people living on North America’s northwest coast 9,300 years ago. The world ...Read Review
Sails of Fortune
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AdventureBiographical FictionNautical
Sails of Fortune opens on a September night in 1519, when Juan de Elcano fears that a Portuguese spy is about to attack him, ...Read Review
Jane and His Lordship’s Legacy
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Being the eighth Jane Austen mystery, this novel centers on the family’s move to brother Edward’s cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where ...Read Review
Louisa and the Country Bachelor
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This is second in a series of mysterious adventures involving author Louisa May Alcott. In this installment, Maclean (a.k.a. Jeanne Mackin) ...Read Review
Opal
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Fourteen-year-old Opal Torvald is taking a break from work in the Dakota Territory in 1886. A tomboy, she reacts to a stranger’s threats ...Read Review
Crossing Bully Creek
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Crossing Bully Creek is likely to be mentioned in the same breath with Faulkner because they share some commendable commonalities: a rich ...Read Review
Where the Rivers Flow North
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This reissue of Mosher’s 1978 story collection was my introduction to the author’s work; it deserves a much wider audience outside New ...Read Review
The Year the Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs and Elvis Presley
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
It is 1955 when fourteen-year-old Achsa McEachern hears “That’s All Right Mama” on the radio, sung by the as-yet-unknown twenty-year-old Elvis Presley. She ...Read Review
Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World
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Larger-than-life figures such as Wolfe, Rhodes, Drake, Gordon, Clive, Raffles, Brooke and Roberts occupy center stage in histories of the Empire upon which ...Read Review
Gods & Kings
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Though he is the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hezekiah is not protected from his father’s perverted attempts to seek the ...Read Review