HNR Issue 33 (August 2005)
Life Studies: Stories
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In Paris of 1876, a young father reluctantly accompanies his wife and four-year-old daughter, Mimi, to his sister’s garden party in Montmartre. Reluctantly, ...Read Review
Lightning Bug
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It’s July, 1939, when Every Dill returns to Stay More, Arkansas, to reclaim his true love, the town’s attractive postmistress, Latha Bourne. ...Read Review
The Portrait
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If this short novel doesn’t capture the reader’s attention, then little else will. Scottish painter Henry MacAlpine welcomes his old friend ...Read Review
The Fool’s Path
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A fantasy story must have a king, queen, prince, and princess to enchant the reader with the magical belief that wrongs will be ...Read Review
Riddle in the Mountain
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Kathy and David Henley have just moved to Boulder, Colorado. They have become acquainted with a boy their age, Frank Kessler. A neighbor, ...Read Review
Men of Bronze
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Men of Bronze is set in 526 BC during the death throes of the ancient Empire of the Pharaohs. A captain of the Medjay (...Read Review
The Turquoise Ring
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The Merchant of Venice is arguably one of Shakespeare’s most controversial works. The 16th century tale of vengeance and religious intolerance among ...Read Review
The Italian Secretary
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As Jon Lellenberg (the US representative of the Conan Doyle Estate) tells us in the fascinating afterword to this slight volume, Caleb Carr ...Read Review
Thieves of Mercy
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This is second in a series following Glory in the Name. In June of 1862, Lt. Samuel Bowater, Confederate States Navy, arrives in Memphis ...Read Review
An Obituary for Major Reno
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On May 17, 1876, Colonel George Custer led the Seventh Cavalry out of Fort Abraham Lincoln with orders to seek out and subdue one of ...Read Review