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HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)

Penhallow

By Georgette Heyer - Published 2006

Genres:

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

By Amy Patricia Meade - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Janet Woods - Published 2007

Genres:

Romance Saga

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

By Cathy Gohlke - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Inspirational

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

By Craig Simpson - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Thriller

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

By Helen M. Jewell - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By T.C.F. Hopkins - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Nick Drake - Published 2006 Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Mystery/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

By Brenda Rickman Vantrease - Published 2007

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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

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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