HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
The Earthquake Shack: A Sausalito Love Story
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It’s 1959 in Sausalito, California—right across the water from San Francisco, but with a culture and personality all its own. Characters abound, ...Read Review
Wintering
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In the late 1950s, bankrupt Jaguar salesman Jim Parker must start his life over again in a village near Glastonbury. He grudgingly accepts ...Read Review
Killing Che
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Bolivia, 1967: Paul Hoyle, an ex-CIA paramilitary with experience in Laos, Vietnam and various Latin American hot spots, is now employed as a “contractor.” ...Read Review
Murder, ’Orrible Murder
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Victorian English detectives have their place in history, but what about the other end of the social spectrum, a chimney sweep who finds ...Read Review
Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Having reworked the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs (escaped slave turned abolitionist and once as famous as Frederick Douglass) in Letters From a Slave ...Read Review
Someone Named Eva
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‘Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always.’ Those are the words Milada’s grandma said to her the night the Nazi soldiers appeared ...Read Review
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The book’s title undervalues the scope of the book, for Adam Sisman has written more than an intricate description of the relationship ...Read Review
The Boar Stone
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This is the third book in Jules Watson’s Dalriada trilogy. AD 366: Britain is ruled by the Romans. Minna, a Roman serving girl, ...Read Review
The Painted Lady
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London, 1670s. To aid their seduction of the beautiful Araminta, four of London’s most dissolute rakes have set up The Society for ...Read Review
Companions of Paradise
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Continuing the saga of A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Englishwoman Mariana Givens has been separated from her Punjabi Muslim ...Read Review
