HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)

Fort Dearborn

By Jerry Crimmins - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureWestern

Written by a well-known reporter who has reported and edited Chicago papers for the last thirty years, Fort Dearborn is obviously a labor ...Read Review

The Taste of Innocence

By Stephanie Laurens - Published 2007

Genres:

Romance

In 1833, Charles Morwellan, 8th Earl of Meredith, returns home resigned to marry; it is time and it will please his mother. He has ...Read Review

Dream of Life

By Michael Phillips - Published 2006

Genres:

Inspirational

“We have all been handed a photograph of ourselves standing in the midst of the world. But we don’t know very much ...Read Review

House Divided

By Ben Ames Williams - Published 2006 (c1947)

Genres:

Saga

The Currain family saga begins in 1783 with Tony Currain, and moves through over 1,000 pages past the time of his grandson – at least in ...Read Review

Haweswater

By Sarah Hall - Published 2003Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

In 1936, the Cumbrian village of Mardale is selected as the site for the Haweswater reservoir. The people of Manchester are running short on ...Read Review

Crimson Portrait

By Jody Shields - Published 2006 (US)Published 2007 (UK)

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

In 1915, Catherine, an Englishwoman grieving for her husband who has died on a WWI battlefield, turns over their country mansion to the army ...Read Review

Ysabel

By Guy Gavriel Kay - Published 2007

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

Guy Gavriel Kay has mesmerized readers with his realistic, historically-steeped novels set in alternate versions of actual eras and places. He has won ...Read Review

Peter Pan in Scarlet

By Geraldine McCaughrean - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Whether or not you’ve read the original Peter Pan, you are no doubt familiar with at least the high points of the ...Read Review

The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham

By Joanna Goldsworthy (ed.) - By Kathleen Dayus - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Kathleen Dayus was born in 1903, and this new edition combines several of her works into a volume telling the story of her life ...Read Review

The Concord Quartet

By Samuel A. Schreiner - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds of the age, ...Read Review