HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Liszt’s Kiss
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Paris, 1832. A cholera epidemic rages, and Anne de Barbier-Chouant has lost her beloved mother to its deadly grasp. Alone in the crumbling family ...Read Review
A Tendering in the Storm
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This book continues the story begun in A Clearing in the Wild. Both novels are based on the true story of the utopian ...Read Review
The Blackest Bird
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On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York City and was ...Read Review
Last Stand at Majuba Hill
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Inside John Wilcox is there a factual historian struggling to get out? In their fourth outing, Simon Fonthill and 352 Jenkins take part in ...Read Review
For Freedom
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It is 1941 in Hong Kong, and the Japanese are gearing up for invasion. Four people, whose lives are intertwined, are caught up in ...Read Review
Footsteps in the Dark
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Brother and sisters, Peter, Margaret and Celia, inherit The Priory, a rambling ancient house, from their uncle. Celia and her husband Charles, along ...Read Review
Zoli
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“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Seventy-three years have passed now across my brow. I ...Read Review
April in Paris
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Don’t be fooled by this book’s unfortunate UK cover. This is not another romantic wartime saga, but a powerful study of ...Read Review
Prison Ship
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1803. In this second Sam Witchell adventure, 15-year-old Sam is an experienced ‘powder monkey’ aboard HMS Elephant. The battle of Copenhagen is imminent and ...Read Review
The Wednesday Wars
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As the only Presbyterian in his seventh-grade class in Long Island in 1967-68, Holling Hoodhood has to spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, ...Read Review
