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HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)

Lipstick and Lies

By Margit Liesche - Published 2007

Genres:

Pucci Lewis, a young Women’s Airforce Service Pilot doing home front service during World War II, needs Amelia Earhart’s saddle shoes ...Read Review

Paper Tiger

By Olivier Rolin - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Paper Tiger is the first English translation of acclaimed French novelist Rolin. The past becomes present over a night when a survivor of ...Read Review

Consolation

By Michael Redhill - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Consolation revolves around a set of glass photographic negatives (and their prints) that bear images of early Toronto. The glass plates were being ...Read Review

Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating personages. ...Read Review

Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes

By Peter Costello - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Nonfiction

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective, didn’t confine his interest in criminology to the pages of his fiction. Though ...Read Review

Tripoli: The United States’ First War on Terror

By David Smethurst - Published 2006

Genres:

Military Nonfiction

Problems in the Middle East are not new to the U.S. Tripoli: The United States’ First War on Terror chronicles the first ...Read Review

Dream of the Dragon Pool: A Daoist Quest

By Albert A. Dalia - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

“There is another Reality – not of the human realm.” Shame and anguish haunt Li Bo, the famous Tang Dynasty poet. After he is ...Read Review

The Sun Over Breda

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte - Published 2007

Genres:

Adventure Military

This is the third in the adventures of Captain Alatriste in 17th century Spain, following Captain Alatriste and Purity of Blood. In 1625, Captain ...Read Review

The True Darcy Spirit

By Elizabeth Aston - Published 2006 Published 2007

Genres:

Literary Romance

Cassandra Darcy is disgraced, penniless and an outcast from her family. She is determined to earn her living in Regency London by using ...Read Review

A Perfect Likeness

By Sandra Heath - Published 2006

Genres:

Romance

Sir Sebastian Sheringham agrees to marry Bryony St Charles after seeing a miniature portrait of her and to honour an ancient agreement made ...Read Review