HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Wolf of The Plains
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The author is best known as the author of the Emperor series of books based on the life of Julius Caesar. The first ...Read Review
Glastonbury Tor
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Children/Young AdultInspirational
Set during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, this didactic novel describes the coming-of-age experience of seventeen-year-old Colin. Fleeing the cruel ...Read Review
Marta’s Promise
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In 1766, many German Protestant religious minorities respond to Russia’s offer of open immigration, which includes free farmland, and they risk imprisonment and ...Read Review
Eye of the Serpent
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1870: Christabel Brown leaves England, becoming governess to the teenage daughter of an Austrian count. Liesel von Holstein is a difficult charge; her last ...Read Review
The School for Heiresses
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A delightful collection of four passionate Regency-era short stories by different authors is tied together through the heroines, all pupils at The School ...Read Review
A Hearth in Candlewood
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In 1841, with grace and fortitude, fifty-year-old Emma Garrett presides over Hill House, a stately boardinghouse in the canal village of Candlewood, New York. ...Read Review
City of Glory: A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan
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The War of 1812 serves as backdrop to this intense saga of early New York and the woodlands of Manhattan. President James Madison has ...Read Review
Gone with the Windsors
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Written in diary form covering the years 1932 to 1946, these entries document the life of the fictional, recently widowed Maybell Brumby, Baltimore heiress and ...Read Review
A Day of Small Beginnings
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In early 20th century Poland, Itzik, a young Jewish boy, kills a Polish Catholic and runs to the graveyard for cover. There he ...Read Review
Ghostwalk
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This is a strange and intriguing book, part detective mystery, part love story, part ghost story. It is set in Cambridge from 2003 onwards ...Read Review
