HNR Issue 38 (November 2006)
The Skin Of The Sky
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The Skin of the Sky is a fictionalized biography of Mexican astronomer Lorenzo de Tena. Beginning in the 1930s, Florencia, Lorenzo’s mother, ...Read Review
Dominion
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At the end of the 17th century, Jasper Merian, a freed bondsman, leaves a wife and child in Virginia to carve out a ...Read Review
Poison To Purge Melancholy
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The third installment in this delightful series is set during Christmas in present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Pat Montella, though promising to refrain from ghostly ...Read Review
Loving Will Shakespeare
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Just before the plague returns to England, seven-year-old Agnes (Anne) Hathaway and her family are invited to a christening by friends: John and ...Read Review
Her Majesty’s Spymaster
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This is the story of Sir Francis Walsingham, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Caught up in the political and religious ...Read Review
Archie And Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
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Archie Chanler, heir to the Astor fortune, and Amélie Rives were the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day: the money, the ...Read Review
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
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Before reading Sailing from Byzantium, the whole of my knowledge about this empire was that their capitol was Constantinople and that the adjective “...Read Review
I, Claudius
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Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus survived the intrigues, power struggles and bloody purges of one of the most violent times in history because ...Read Review
Girl In A Red Tunic
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At the end of the 12th century, England is in the grip of a very cold winter. Food is short and so is ...Read Review
Dark Angels
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Through a Glass Darkly was a book that lingered in the memory: a lush historical setting, carefully created characters, riveting storyline. Now, twenty ...Read Review