HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
Traces: Birth of Alexander the Great
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This book is second in a series that tells the story of the events surrounding, and people involved with, the birth of Alexander ...Read Review
The Secret Supper
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Leonardo da Vinci is the patron of thrillers these days – despite the fact that he was, and indeed one might argue still is, ...Read Review
Absolute Honour
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If you haven’t already come across Jack Absolute, redcoat officer, lover, spy – where on earth have you been? This is Jack’...Read Review
Come Sundown
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Come Sundown is an intriguing tale about an Englishman, Honore Greenwood, who found his way to America and to the frontier West in ...Read Review
Afterlands
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In 1871 a thwarted American expedition to the Arctic casts 19 survivors adrift on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland – one white and ...Read Review
The Inquest
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In 1830 Burlington, Vermont, a young woman named “Speedy” (Experience) Goodrich dies of a botched abortion. An inquest is held to determine who, among ...Read Review
Murder on the Middle Fork
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This short novel accurately depicts the hardscrabble and desperate lives of those who preyed on the fortunes of others. The story unfolds alongside ...Read Review
Katerina
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Czernowitz, Ukraine, is the setting for Katerina. After spending forty tumultuous years away from her childhood home, Katerina, an elderly peasant woman, returns ...Read Review
River Rising
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Reverend Hale Poser arrives in Pilotville, Louisiana, in 1927. Raised in an orphanage, he discovers a clue to his biological parents that brings ...Read Review
The Valley
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Landis’ third novel tells the story of Sarianna, a student in late 1930s Massachusetts with nihilistic leanings and a poetic attachment to ...Read Review