HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Penhallow
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When a crime novel begins with the immortal words “Jimmy the Bastard was cleaning boots …” then the reader can be certain they are ...Read Review
Ghost of a Chance: A Marjorie McClelland Mystery
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Marjorie McClelland, the mystery writer, her fiancé police detective, Robert Jameson, and Creighton Ashcroft, her wealthy English editor, are all at the 1935 carnival ...Read Review
Broken Journey
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The story begins in 1944, when Jilly makes friends with evacuee Alec who lives on a farm in their Dorset village. When his father ...Read Review
William Henry is a Fine Name
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Children/Young AdultInspirational
This young adult novel follows the coming-of-age story of Robert in the summer of 1859. His best friend, William Henry, a freed black boy, ...Read Review
Resistance
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Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during the Second World War, this novel tells the story of two brothers, Marek and Olaf, who join forces ...Read Review
Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550
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This concise and comprehensive study of women’s lives and society’s expectation of them covers every aspect of women’s life in ...Read Review
Empires, Battles and Wars: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World
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T.C.F. Hopkins offers a fast-paced view of a frequently misunderstood period of Middle Eastern history—the ancient world to the beginnings ...Read Review
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Queen Nefertiti, wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, has disappeared right before the all-important Jubilee celebration. Theban detective Rai Rahotep must travel to ...Read Review
The Mercy Seller
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Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, make their living illuminating precious books in early 15th-century Prague, a hotbed of religious change. Jan Hus, ...Read Review
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
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Upon occasion a reviewer is familiar with the source material for a fictional biographical novel, and therefore dreads the transformation from actual to ...Read Review