HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Black Arrow
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Imperial official Sugawara Akitada is recently assigned as deputy governor of Eichigo (now Niigata province) on the rough, snow-bound northern frontier of Heian ...Read Review
The Rose of York: Fall from Grace
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While Worth’s ambitious novel offers a sympathetic representation of King Richard the Third, she also depicts him as humanly flawed and, at ...Read Review
Mr Midshipman Fury
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Ah, at last a new series dealing with the adventures you could have aboard a ship during what Marryat called “the golden age ...Read Review
The Inconstant Husband
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The 19th century is in its closing years, and Rose Seaton is bored with her life as the daughter of a well-to-do iron ...Read Review
Whirlwind
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Though Zane Brody looks like a happy and handsome bachelor, he pines for the comforts and happiness of a home life similar to ...Read Review
A Gentle Axe
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A man hangs from a tree in Petrovsky Park, St. Petersburg, an axe tucked in his belt. Beside him on the ground is ...Read Review
The Road from Chapel Hill
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The Road from Chapel Hill offers readers a fascinating and blessedly stereotype-free drama about life in divided North Carolina during the Civil War. ...Read Review
The Saffron Kitchen
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“‘And what does my father believe?’ Ali frowned. ‘Tradition, I suppose.’ ‘In spite of all its blood and misery?… As if we’re ...Read Review
Ghost Sea
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“He loved the sea, he loved a boat, he loved a woman, Some would say he loved wrongly or too much—or both.” ...Read Review
Bull by the Tale
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This book is an anthology of eight short stories about the American West from Spanish colonial days to the present. Two stories tell ...Read Review
