HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
Roma
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Steven Saylor, the award-winning mystery writer of the Roma Sub Rosa series, undertakes the multigenerational historical saga in his latest novel, Roma. Pioneered ...Read Review
The Huntress
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It is the year 1585, and a prophecy has foretold the coming of a Daughter of the Earth, the soon-to-be leader of the Silver ...Read Review
The Belles Dames Club
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A unmarried Miss—the frivolous Clarissa Wyckenham—does a markedly good deed in helping the dour Lord Alresford out of a vexing predicament. ...Read Review
The Best of Sisters
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Sagas, the comfy slippers of reading matter. Nothing demanding in style or content, but a good book for bedtime or after a bout ...Read Review
Voices from the Sea
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In 1865 Eppie has lost her beloved husband to the sea—that eternal danger faced by the fisher folk of Portsoy. Her parents provide ...Read Review
The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel
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A newly discovered novel set in the turbulent mid-19th century period of the removals and intertribal conflict, The Singing Bird details the ...Read Review
In Dublin’s Fair City
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Private investigator Molly Murphy is asked by a compatriot to see if she can find his younger sister in Ireland—the sister he ...Read Review
The Ministry of Special Cases
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In Buenos Aires in 1976, a family of Argentine Jews, Kaddish and Lillian Poznan and their son Pato, make personal the untold numbers of ...Read Review
A Load of Old Bones
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Maurice the cat’s mistress, the wealthy Elizabeth, conceives an unwelcome passion for Francis, the shy new Vicar. Bouncer the dog’s master, ...Read Review
The Dig
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In the summer of 1939, as Britain prepares for war with air-raid drills and trench digging in Hyde Park, in the depths of rural ...Read Review
