HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)

Traces: Birth of Alexander the Great

By Faye Turner - Published 2006

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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

By Alberto Manguel (trans.) - By Javier Sierra - Published 2006

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Thriller

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

By C.C. Humphreys - Published 2006

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Adventure

  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

By Mike Blakely - Published 2006

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Biographical FictionWestern

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

By Steven Heighton - Published 2006

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EpicLiterary

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

By Jeffrey D. Marshall - Published 2006

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Don Ian Smith - By Naida West - Published 2005

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Aharon Appelfeld - Published 2006

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Epic

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

By Athol Dickson - Published 2006

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Mystery/Crime

  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

By J.D. Landis - Published 2005Published 2006

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Saga

  Landis’ third novel tells the story of Sarianna, a student in late 1930s Massachusetts with nihilistic leanings and a poetic attachment to ...Read Review

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