HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)

Lost Souls

By Jenny Haworth - Published 2005

Genres:

Military

  Two brothers, Luke and Jack Macpherson, raised on a sheep station owned by a Scottish father who has no love for the ...Read Review

Jack of Clubs

By Barbara Metzger - Published 2006

Genres:

Romance

  “Cap’n Jack” Endicott is the younger brother of Alexander “Ace” Chalfont Endicott, the Earl of Carde. Back from the Peninsular Wars, ...Read Review

Lady Hartley’s Inheritance

By Wendy Soliman - Published 2006

Genres:

Romance

  Clarissa Hartley discovers that her inheritance has been left to the illegitimate son of her late husband. This is devastating news to ...Read Review

Hedwig and Berti

By Frieda Arkin - Published 2006

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Hedwig and Berti is the saga of a mismatched upper-class German Jewish couple who escape from Nazi Germany, going first to London, then ...Read Review

The Foreign Correspondent

By Alan Furst - Published 2006

Genres:

Thriller

  Carlo Weisz is an Italian émigré living in Paris and working for Reuters, covering the Spanish Civil War during the winter of 1938...Read Review

The Chinatown Cloud Death Peril

By Paul Malmont - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

  In 1937, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. For entertainment there was no television, only radio, the movies ...Read Review

The Last Sunrise

By Robert Ryan - Published 2006

Genres:

Thriller

  In 1948 Singapore, a demobilised American pilot called Lee Crane ekes out a living flying an old air transport. World-weary, he is toying ...Read Review

The Rebels of Ireland

By Edward Rutherfurd - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

  Rutherfurd’s latest bestseller concludes his sweeping look at Irish history first begun in The Princes of Ireland (Dublin in the UK). ...Read Review

11,000 Years Lost

By Peni R. Griffin - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

  In this time-travel story set during the Pleistocene era, 11-year-old Esther inadvertently walks into another dimension while at an archaeological dig on ...Read Review

The Janus Gate: An Encounter with John Singer Sargent

By Douglas Rees - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

The Janus Gate is part of the Art Encounters fiction series designed to introduce young adults to great painters. The book’s subject ...Read Review