HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
Bad Boys Ahoy!
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In “Stolen Treasures,” nothing annoys a pirate more than stealing his bride. Married by proxy, Captain Phoenix, aka Sebastian Blake, Earl of ...Read Review
The Ragtime Kid
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In 1898, when Brun Campbell hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” the 15-year-old piano enthusiast has just one goal: to move to ...Read Review
The Soldier’s Lady
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In this heartwarming Christian novel, the second book in the Carolina Cousins series, a black, spiritual, wounded buffalo soldier happens upon Rosewood, a ...Read Review
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
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Luis Alberto Urrea had a “flying Yaqui aunt” in Tijuana, Mexico, a woman who was said to be the mystical guiding force behind ...Read Review
The Other Eden
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In 1924 Eleanor Rose turns 21 and inherits her family estate in Louisiana, ‘Eden’s Meadow’. Left an orphan as a child and brought ...Read Review
Water for Elephants
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“’Gritty” is the word on the cover, but “nasty,” perhaps, is nearer the mark. Jacob Jankowski knew some nasty characters back in 1931. ...Read Review
Family of Women
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Family of Women is set in Birmingham between the years 1926 and 1960 but spans more than half a century when returning to the ...Read Review
The Book of Secrets
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The “Book of Secrets” represents the stolen diary of a British colonial administrator, Sir Alfred Corbin, who arrived in Mombasa in 1913. Many ...Read Review
Kitty and Mr Kipling
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When Mr. Kipling and his wife come to the small Vermont town of Dummerston, Vermont, the town is thrown into chaos by ...Read Review
I Stay Near You : One Story in Three
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I Stay Near You, a reissue of a 1997 paperback, is a three-generation saga set in a small upstate New York town that ...Read Review