HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
Counting on Grace
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Living in a Vermont mill town in 1910, 12-year-old Grace expects to join her mother and older sister at the mill soon. Her ...Read Review
Captain John Smith : Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream
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Books about both John Smith and the early colonization efforts at Jamestown are numerous, and this book doesn’t cover any new ...Read Review
Faith of My Fathers
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Austin’s latest entry in the Chronicles of the Kings series continues the saga of Israel’s King Hezekiah and his palace ...Read Review
The Elixir of Death
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AD 1195. ‘Crowner John’ – otherwise the splendidly-named Sir John de Wolfe, black-haired and frequently bad tempered – is confronted by an abandoned ship and ...Read Review
La Salle
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La Salle is an epistolary novel that presents a selective view of the explorations by the 17th century French explorer in search ...Read Review
Rekindled
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Ten years ago, in 1857, Kathryn Jennings gave up a wealthy life in Boston to go west with her new husband, Larson. The ...Read Review
Pauper’s Gold
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In 1854, 12-year-old Hannah Francis is living in the Macclesfield workhouse with her mother. The workhouse master has an agreement with Critchlow’s cotton ...Read Review
A Clearing in the Wild
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The people of Bethel, Missouri, seek to follow God’s word by living both in the world of the 1850s and outside this ...Read Review
Second Sight
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When Venetia Milton agreed to photograph some items for the obscure Arcane Society, she didn’t know the powerful attraction she would feel ...Read Review
City for Ransom
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Inspector Alastair Ransom is faced with a diabolical and ruthless killer who is stalking the streets of Chicago during the Great Exposition ...Read Review