HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)

Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

By Nick Drake - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

  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

By Margaret Ball - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

  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

By John Speed - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeRomance

  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

By Cesar Aira (trans. Chris Andrews) - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

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!

By Sylvia Day - Published 2006

Genres:

RomanceShort Stories

  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

By Larry Karp - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

  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

By Michael Phillips - Published 2006

Genres:

InspirationalSaga

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

By Luis Alberto Urrea - Published 2006

Genres:

LiterarySaga

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

By Sarah Bryant - Published 2005Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

  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

By Sara Gruen - Published 2006

Genres:

Epic

  “’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

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