HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
Matters of Honor
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It is the early 1950s. Three Harvard freshmen from disparate backgrounds are thrown together as roommates: Sam, a scion of an upstanding New ...Read Review
The Savior
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Late in World War II, violinist Gottfried Keller is taken to a nearby concentration camp to play recitals for a select group of ...Read Review
The Green Mill Murder
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Ah, wondrous Phryne Fisher, detective extraordinaire, Australian playgirl, and woman-about-town (circa the 1920s) is back. Wherever she goes, murder follows. Dancing at the ...Read Review
Where Bones Dance: An English Girlshood, An African War
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Young girls grow up in a world of imagination, but few, like Anna (nicknamed Jake), grow amidst a volatile political state soon to ...Read Review
Bird of Another Heaven
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Houston’s (Snow Mountain Passage) ninth novel is told by the 1987 version of Sheridan “Dan” Brody, a radio host who discovers his family ...Read Review
How the Hangman Lost his Heart
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
London, 1746. When Alice’s Uncle Frank is executed for supporting Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite cause, his niece is determined to bring ...Read Review
Last Waltz in Vienna
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Stories of Central European Jewry’s descent into the Nazi nightmare, though always shocking, are not unfamiliar. What makes George Clare’s account ...Read Review
Reading Judas, The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of History
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One of the big questions about the death of Jesus, of abiding fascination to theologians, historians and the just plain curious, is the ...Read Review
The Eagle in the Sand
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Simon Scarrow’s seventh novel has Roman legionnaires Macro and Cato sent to a fort in Judea to investigate disturbing rumours of a ...Read Review
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
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The Lost Diary of Don Juan is a fresh, new imagining of a legendary character. Don Juan is made for historical fiction, especially ...Read Review
