HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)

Murder on the Middle Fork

By Don Ian Smith - By Naida West - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This short novel accurately depicts the hardscrabble and desperate lives of those who preyed on the fortunes of others. The story unfolds alongside ...Read Review

Katerina

By Aharon Appelfeld - Published 2006

Genres:

Epic

Czernowitz, Ukraine, is the setting for Katerina. After spending forty tumultuous years away from her childhood home, Katerina, an elderly peasant woman, returns ...Read Review

Lost Among the Angels

By Alice Duncan - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

  In 1926, Mercy Allcutt has traded in her Boston blueblood life for life in Los Angeles with her sister and brother-in-law, where she ...Read Review

Juniper Blue

By Susan Lang - Published 2006

Genres:

Epic

  In Juniper Blue, the sequel to Small Rocks Rising, Susan Lang continues the story of Ruth Farley, a young, lovely but combatively ...Read Review

Canvey Island

By James Runcie - Published 2006

Genres:

Short Stories

  On 31 January 1953 Martin’s father, Len, and Auntie Vi are dancing at the local hop. Back home Martin and his mother are ...Read Review

The Librarians of Alexandria: A Tale of Two Sisters

By Alessandra Lavagnino (trans. Teresa Lust) - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

  This is the saga of the Canterno family. The story takes place in Italy and Egypt from 1870 to the end of World ...Read Review

Once

By Morris Gleitzman - Published 2006Published 205

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This novel is about a young Jewish boy growing up in the 1930s in a Catholic orphanage in the German mountains. This boy ...Read Review

Black Powder

By Staton Rabin - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

  Rabin writes an intriguing young adult novel which addresses the pertinent issue of youth gang violence. In 2010, teenager Langston Davis witnesses the ...Read Review

Royal Panoply : Brief Lives of the English Monarchs

By Carolly Erickson - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

  Somehow Erickson manages, in the space she permits herself, to give us vignettes about 40 English monarchs from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth ...Read Review

Mavericks of the Sky

By Barry Rosenberg - By Catherine Macaulay - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

  Every night, dozens of FedEx planes take off from cities all over America and converge on Memphis, Tennessee, where they disgorge their ...Read Review