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HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)

The Midwife of St. Petersburg

By Linda Lee Chaikin - Published 2007

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This story takes place amidst the turmoil of 1914 Czarist Russia. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia has recently been assassinated, and war is imminent. ...Read Review

A Stranger in Burracombe

By Lilian Harry - Published 2007

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Romance Saga

This sugary saga, set in a Devon village, opens in February 1952 with the arrival of a young woman, Jennifer Tucker, who it later ...Read Review

The Rebels

By Sandor Marai - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

The Rebels tells the story of a group of young men on the eve of their graduation from a boy’s academy. Unfortunately, ...Read Review

A False Mirror

By Charles Todd - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Ninth in Todd’s series featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge, a Scotland Yard inspector and shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, this outing finds ...Read Review

Journey to the Alamo

By Melodie A. Cuate - Published 2006

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Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Seventh-grade teacher Mr. Barrington proffers a trunk full of historical artifacts to help Hannah Taylor write a report on Texas history. The trunk ...Read Review

I Am the Great Horse

By Katherine Roberts - Published 2006 Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse, Bucephalus. It is also the story of Bucephalus’s devoted ...Read Review

For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies

By Robert Irwin - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

Orientalism has become a problematic scholarly discipline since Edward Said published his Orientalism in 1978. According to Irwin, Said accused Orientalists of imperialism, colonialism ...Read Review

Spartacus: Film and History

By Martin M. Winkler - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

Martin Winkler is the editor of 11 essays on various aspects of the making of the 1960 film of Spartacus. Also included are the source ...Read Review

The Sempster’s Tale

By Margaret Frazer - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the latest in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse mystery series and is set in London during the reign of Henry VI. ...Read Review

Too Great a Lady

By Amanda Elyot - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Elyot (the pseudonym used by actress-novelist Leslie Carroll for her historical novels) presents a sweeping, emotionally intense portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, half ...Read Review