HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
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This novel is set in South Carolina, America’s Deep South, and is written with Southern dialogue and idioms. Bonnie Wilder narrates ...Read Review
The Marriage Spell
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Abigail is a wizard in early 19th-century England, a healer of great talent, but wizards are feared and despised. A chance encounter ...Read Review
Summer of Discovery
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Two teenagers living in the dustbowl that is Nebraska in 1939 meet a professional archaeologist, who takes them on as his assistants for ...Read Review
The Boys of San Joaquin
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Small-town California in 1951 is the setting for this young adult novel. Written with a strong eye to the “get-the-boys-reading” movement, hero Paulo ...Read Review
Children of War
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During the Munich Crisis, my father, aged ten, joined his friends in digging trenches. On 3 September, 1939, he knew, on leaving the Liverpool ...Read Review
Honor Killing : Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow’s Spectacular Last Case
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Don’t let the racy title fool you; this is not a sensational rehash of the 1930s Hawaiian rape trial. It is ...Read Review
The Anvil Stone
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This third book in the Mascen’s Treasure series tells the tale of the quest for the sword, Excalibur, the fourth piece ...Read Review
The Last Boleyn
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. (Prev. pub. as Passion’s Reign, Kensington, 1983) Mary Boleyn, Anne’s long-eclipsed sister, has lately had her own surge of popularity (see Philippa ...Read Review
Duty and Desire
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For those curious to know more about the characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Pamela Aidan has embarked upon the ...Read Review
Lord Perfect
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This absolutely delightful historical romance is set in 1821. Viscount Rathbourne and Bathsheba Wingate meet in the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly when her 12...Read Review