HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
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Poor Franny Hansen. It’s 1953, and she’s ten years old and stuck in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Already known as a gifted pianist, ...Read Review
Haym Salomon: American Patriot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Susan Goldman Rubin does it again. The author of favorites The Cat With The Yellow Star and Fireflies in the Dark, among other ...Read Review
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister
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Thomas Cromwell and his first master Cardinal Wolsey had much in common: both were commoners whose loyalty lay entirely with the Tudor crown ...Read Review
A Short History of Slavery
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Published to coincide with and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the English Atlantic slave trade in 1807, this is the kind ...Read Review
A Mass for the Dead
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In McDuffie’s first mystery, set in Scotland in 1373, the author looks deep into the glass of her own ancestry to find a ...Read Review
Napolean’s Pyramids
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American expatriate Ethan Gage wins an ancient and possibly cursed medallion in a card game in revolutionary France. Threatened by the powerful Count ...Read Review
Cold Cache
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Kent Rasmussen, an officer of the North West Mounted Police, is leaving the force to return home to his mother and sister in ...Read Review
Voices of the Night
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Former pickpocket and secret murderess Maggie King has run afoul of London’s most notorious criminal. She and her “chavies,” the motley group ...Read Review
The River Knows
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It’s late in the reign of Queen Victoria when a young businesswoman decides she must make herself disappear. Fortunately, there have been ...Read Review
The Gentle Wind’s Caress
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Orphaned Isabelle will do anything to escape her Halifax, Yorkshire workhouse, where she is harassed by Neville, the matron’s son. She enters ...Read Review
