HNR Issue 35 (February 2006)
By Way of the Wilderness
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Moses should have been murdered at birth according to the Egyptian Pharaoh’s decree. However, not only does he survive, he is raised ...Read Review
To the Tower Born
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
The disappearance and alleged murder of Edward IV’s young sons in the Tower has fueled centuries of speculation, both in fiction and ...Read Review
Camp Ford
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Deftly shifting between 1946 and 1865 with its protagonist and baseball as common elements, Win MacNaughton narrates his 99-year journey from the son of Rhode ...Read Review
White Stone Day
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Set in gritty Victorian London in 1858, Gray’s second book follows A Fiend in Human, his first novel which, likewise, was filled with ...Read Review
Lady Midnight
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Katerina Bruni is the daughter of Venice’s most elite courtesan, and is being groomed to follow in her mother’s footsteps. However, ...Read Review
Karoo Boy
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Douglas Thomas is a white teenager in Cape Town, South Africa, in the late 1970s. He lives with his mother, father, and twin ...Read Review
Train from Marietta
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Here is an enjoyable and relaxing curl-up read for a cozy Sunday afternoon! This is Dorothy Garlock’s newest addition to her three ...Read Review
Liberation
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“Today was…what was today? The eighteenth day of June in the year 1944. Just another afternoon in a villa surrounded by olive groves ...Read Review
The Mystery of Olga Chekova
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Though this work of nonfiction is allegedly the story of Olga Chekhova, niece of the legendary playwright Anton Chekhov, a more accurate title ...Read Review
An Innocent Soldier
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Fifteen-year-old Adam is taken by his employer, a farmer, in the middle of the night to be conscripted into the army—a replacement ...Read Review