HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
The Snake Stone
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This is the second novel in the series featuring Yashim the Eunuch. Goodwin has written non-fiction about the Ottoman Empire and Istanbul and ...Read Review
The Rose of Sebastopol
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Mariella Lingwood is a typical Victorian young lady. She is quiet, dutiful, unadventurous, shy and modest. She helps her mother in her charitable ...Read Review
Keeping the House
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A two-family saga spanning 1896 to 1950, Keeping the House explores what making a home actually means, and the sacrifices both men and women have ...Read Review
The Welsh Girl
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This first novel by Peter Ho Davies, named one of Britain’s best young novelists, chronicles the life of young Esther Evans as ...Read Review
A Fete Worse than Death
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A summer’s day in 1922, a village fete being enjoyed by Jack Haldean, crime writer and ex-Royal Flying Corps pilot, then is spoilt ...Read Review
Sea of Lost Love
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The choice of two picturesque coastal situations—the Cornish ancestral home of the Montague family and a former Italian convent turned guest house—...Read Review
Cataloochee
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Over the course of this summer, thousands of tourists will visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina. Drawn ...Read Review
Blast to the Past: Washington’s War
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Children/Young AdultMilitaryTime-slip
Blast to the Past is a marvelous series. The History Club, made up of Abigail, Bo and twin brothers Jacob and Zack, use ...Read Review
Ghost Hunters
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The late 19th century was a time of remarkable scientific advancement. New discoveries by scientists, engineers and inventors were transforming the very basis ...Read Review
Four Girls from Berlin
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When the author was small, a rabbi who had survived the Holocaust told her, “In you has your whole family been redeemed.” Meyerhoff’...Read Review
