HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Vashti
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When two assistant curators die unexpectedly of gastric influenza, Tansy Clark’s retired policeman father asks her to investigate, and she quickly becomes ...Read Review
Sue Mundy
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The 19th century media mislabeled M. Jerome Clarke female for their own purposes as well as because of his youth, clean-shaven face, and ...Read Review
China Star
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It is 1922 in this sequel to Shanghai Station, and Russian Count Alexander Karlov, determined to avenge his parents’ murder and find his abducted ...Read Review
Secret
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This autobiographical novel tells the story of young Philippe’s childhood in post-war Paris. The sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the ...Read Review
Beyond the Blue
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Industrial Dundee, Scotland, is the background for this hauntingly beautiful tale of four women’s awakenings to love, death, and truth. With the ...Read Review
The Innocents
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Sensitive, sheltered twins Iris and Dorothea Crosby are deeply affected when circumstances lead them to help in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist ...Read Review
Magdalen Rising: The Beginning
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Raised on the mythical Isle of Women by eight weather-witching mothers and no father but the sea god, Maeve the Red first catches ...Read Review
Tamar
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In 1944, two Dutch SOE agents return to occupied Holland on a mission to help the resistance. They are soon immersed in the daily ...Read Review
Elizabeth and Leicester
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There have been so many books written about Elizabeth I and her relationship with childhood friend, Robert Dudley (later Earl of Leicester), that ...Read Review
Chrusalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
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Maria Sibylla Merian was born in the mid-17th century in Germany into a family of printers. When Merian was a young girl, ...Read Review