HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
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
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers
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Patriot Hearts tells the stories of four women: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madison. It opens in 1814, with Dolley Madison ...Read Review
Resurrectionist
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The setting is Regency London. Robbing fresh graves to supply the city’s anatomy schools and hospitals is a profitable business; illegal, reprehensible, ...Read Review
Far Horizons
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Early 1800s: the tale of Harriet Crombie and Allan MacDougall begins as Allan declares his love for Harriet on the eve of departing ...Read Review
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
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Hurricane Katrina’s bearing down on New Orleans and the apartment of 90-year-old Louis Proby. The authorities are saying it’s going to ...Read Review
