HNR Issue 38 (November 2006)

The Skin Of The Sky

By Elena Poniatowska (trans. Deanna Heikkinen) - Published 2006

Genres:

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

By Calvin Baker - Published 2006

Genres:

                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

By Elena Santangelo - Published 2006

Genres:

Time-slip

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Stephen Budiansky - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Donna M. Lucey - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Colin Wells - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Robert Graves - Published 2006 (c1934)

Genres:

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

By Alys Clare - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Karleen Koen - Published 2006

Genres:

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