HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
Two Women of Galilee
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Rourke, a religious scholar and journalist for the LA Times, offers a new interpretation of events leading to the Crucifixion. Her heroine, ...Read Review
Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour
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Young Jane Seymour is stunned when she overhears her parents discussing her future: as they consider Jane too plain to attract a husband, ...Read Review
Any Approaching Enemy
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After an American spy tells him of a French fleet amassing in the Mediterranean, Charles Edgemont, captain of His Majesty’s frigate ...Read Review
The Fugitive Wife
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This wide-ranging novel spans territory from Minnesota to the Seward Peninsula. Leaving difficult circumstances in Minnesota, Esther “Essie” Crumney finagles a job ...Read Review
Grace in Thine Eyes
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InspirationalLiteraryMystery/Crime
In her Scottish trilogy, beginning with Thorn in My Heart, Higgs reset the biblical story of Jacob (Jamie McKie) in the late 18...Read Review
A Suitable Husband
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Oliver Mayhew, a soldier returning from the Peninsula Wars and penniless third son of an aristocrat, finds himself in need of a rich ...Read Review
A Million Nightingales
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Straight takes readers back to 19th-century Louisiana sugar cane plantations in a heartbreaking story of a mixed-race slave and her search for ...Read Review
Let the Bells Ring
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Let the Bells Ring is a hefty read in the tradition of the gentle, romantic saga, and the chapters are a perfect length ...Read Review
The Taos Truth Game
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Ganz, retired chairman of the MFA program at the University of Montana, resurrects the forgotten writer Myron Brinig and imagines his introduction ...Read Review
The Lost Luggage Porter
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Jim Stringer is a newly commissioned Railway Detective working out of York Station for the North Eastern Railway Company in 1906. Having mislaid ...Read Review