HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Face Down Beside St. Anne’s Well
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In 1575 Susanna Appleton, gentlewoman and herbalist, visits the Buxton spa, Derbyshire, one sometimes frequented by Mary, Queen of Scots. Ostensibly there for the ...Read Review
No Quarter
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It is 1799, and the young American navy is faced with challenges on the high seas – both from Great Britain, who tries to impress ...Read Review
No Greater Courage: A Novel of the Battle of Fredericksburg
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Richard Croker’s talents as a Civil War novelist were first displayed in his well received To Make Men Free: A Novel of ...Read Review
Holmes on the Range
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When a writer mixes genres, such as a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery and a Western, you hold your breath. Can two such disparate styles ...Read Review
Telegraph Days
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From Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning writer Larry McMurtry comes his latest picaresque about life on the American frontier. Our heroine is Nellie Courtwright, a ...Read Review
Tattycoram
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As a baby, Harriet Coram is dropped off at a foundling home in mid-19th century England. She goes on “loan” to a ...Read Review
A Woman of Cairo
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Set in Cairo in 1919-1953, this book paints a portrait of Egypt in the days when it was a British Protectorate—a colony ...Read Review
In The Dark Streets Shining
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This is a warm, enjoyable story of life in war-torn England. Rose has lost her beloved husband to the war, but she is ...Read Review
The Last Jew
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If you’re looking for linear narrative, traditional formatting of dialogue and punctuation, and an Aristotelian plot pattern (rising action-climax-falling action-conclusion), this book ...Read Review
The Summer Snow
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In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Carlos Tejada travels home to Granada to investigate his great-aunt’s death. Accompanying him are ...Read Review
