HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
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The Queen, ‘The Perfect One’, vanishes just before the festival at their new city to celebrate the new religion worshipping Aten, the ...Read Review
The Duchess of Aquitaine
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Ah! A novel about Eleanor that covers her days before Henry II! The historical facts surrounding Eleanor’s life with Henry II ...Read Review
The Temple Dancer
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In the mid-17th century Portuguese colony of Goa, beautiful, sheltered Lucinda Dasana is heir to the family fortune. But her family’...Read Review
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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This entertaining novella reads like a short story, in that it focuses on one incident and how that incident affects the story’s ...Read Review
Bad Boys Ahoy!
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In “Stolen Treasures,” nothing annoys a pirate more than stealing his bride. Married by proxy, Captain Phoenix, aka Sebastian Blake, Earl of ...Read Review
The Ragtime Kid
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In 1898, when Brun Campbell hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” the 15-year-old piano enthusiast has just one goal: to move to ...Read Review
The Soldier’s Lady
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In this heartwarming Christian novel, the second book in the Carolina Cousins series, a black, spiritual, wounded buffalo soldier happens upon Rosewood, a ...Read Review
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
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Luis Alberto Urrea had a “flying Yaqui aunt” in Tijuana, Mexico, a woman who was said to be the mystical guiding force behind ...Read Review
The Other Eden
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In 1924 Eleanor Rose turns 21 and inherits her family estate in Louisiana, ‘Eden’s Meadow’. Left an orphan as a child and brought ...Read Review
Water for Elephants
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“’Gritty” is the word on the cover, but “nasty,” perhaps, is nearer the mark. Jacob Jankowski knew some nasty characters back in 1931. ...Read Review
