HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Harpsong
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Novelist and short-story writer Rilla Askew converts a wandering troubadour-thief into an American icon in Harpsong, a bittersweet tale set during the Great ...Read Review
Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
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Russia, terrorist capital of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. In St Petersburg the body of an English diplomat has ...Read Review
The Long Way Home
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Daisy Denham is young and naïve, but that does not stop her from embarking on a career on the stage, in spite ...Read Review
Whispers of Winter
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Alaska of the World War I years is the setting for this mix of adventure, romance and religious faith, the last of Peterson’...Read Review
Edward Trencom’s Nose
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Prepare yourself for olfactory gastronomy in the cheese department. Milton’s first novel provides the brain with stimulation of an extraordinary kind, particularly ...Read Review
The Silver Cup
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Anna lives in a small village between Speyer and Worms along the Rhine, and the time is 1095-96. Anna’s father is a ...Read Review
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
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Noted children’s author Wells takes on the Civil War in this coming-of-age novel set in the small town of Berryville, in the ...Read Review
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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When one considers the central role the West played in the development of American history and popular culture, the relative paucity of historical ...Read Review
The Eagle’s Prophecy
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The first US edition of the sixth novel in Scarrow’s epic series of the Roman army begins in Rome, in the year ...Read Review
Blood on the Strand
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Spring 1663, the eve of the third year of the Restoration, but all is not well in the capital city. Wealthy merchant Matthew Webb ...Read Review
