HNR Issue 35 (February 2006)
The Dragon Scroll
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Sugawara Akitada is an impoverished Japanese nobleman working as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice. Sent on his first official assignment to ...Read Review
Lady X’s Cowboy
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The widowed Lady Xavier is left a brewery and actually wants to run it—marking her as unconventional in 1883 London. Another duck out ...Read Review
The Madonna List
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When St. Dominic dies in 1221, the list of names discovered on his body is placed in the Vatican archives with the documents pertaining ...Read Review
A Season for Scandal
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This book is made up of two previously published Stephanie Laurens novels, namely Tangled Reins and Fair Juno. Both novels are set in ...Read Review
Madison House
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Maddie Ingram settles in Seattle in 1899 after her husband abandons her in the Yukon. With Yukon gold, Maddie buys a boardinghouse on Seattle’...Read Review
The Painted Drum
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It took some sixteen years for Louise Erdrich to complete The Painted Drum, a masterwork of deeply colored, exquisitely drawn life scenes. The ...Read Review
The People’s Act of Love
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The People’s Act of Love is set in the isolated village of Yazyk, Siberia, in 1919, where a company of Czech soldiers, stranded ...Read Review
The Dark Mirror
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Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy
Bridei is a young nobleman fostered at the home of Broichan, one of the most powerful druids in the land. His earliest memories ...Read Review
Willow Run
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Newbery Honor author Giff does a superb job in this absorbing novel for middle-grade readers. It’s 1944 in Rockaway, New York, and Meggie ...Read Review
To the Castle
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Nearly 18 and happily preparing to become a nun, Nell de Bonvile’s world upturns as she must leave the convent to wed her ...Read Review