HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Empire of Dragons
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The book begins in Edessa, an outpost of the Eastern Roman Empire in 260 AD. Metellus and his men faithfully serve the emperor, Valerian, ...Read Review
The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny
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In this sequel to the gripping The Rose of York: Love and War, Worth does a beautiful, and succinct, job of retelling the ...Read Review
Passarola Rising
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Father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a pioneer in 18th-century aviation. His flying ship, the Passarola, never succeeded in transporting humans, ...Read Review
The Blaze of Noon
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It is 1878. Dan Mora, a fifty-eight-year-old prospector, and his unlikely comrade, Quanto, a Tarahumara Indian, discover more than gold in the desert of ...Read Review
The Priest’s Madonna
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In 1877, nine-year-old Marie Dernanaud meets Bérenger Saunière on the eve of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, at the saint’s ...Read Review
Salisbury: Civil War Death Camp in North Carolina
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Though packaged and titled (oddly) like a non-fiction book, Salisbury is a novel based on the Civil War experiences of the author’s ...Read Review
In Milady’s Chamber
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South has moved from writing charming Regencies to a mystery set during the Regency. Lady Fieldhurst and her husband don’t have a ...Read Review
For Better, For Worse
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This novel, by an author new to me, set in fictitious Yorkshire towns in World War Two and beyond is a nostalgic breath ...Read Review
The Shape of Sand
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In 1910, Harriet Jardine and her siblings left their country manor after their mother’s disappearance and their father’s suicide. From an idyllic ...Read Review
The Lighthorseman
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Beginning in the midst of the war-ravaged lives in battle of two Australian brothers, The Lighthorseman then shifts from WWI to the home-front ...Read Review
