HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
Peony in Love
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Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women over a hundred ...Read Review
Snow Angel
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Noah Wesley, batching it in the mountains near Juneau, Alaska, in 1897, is startled when he finds a young woman huddled in the snow ...Read Review
Tom Bedlam
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The author has Charles Dickens among his favorite authors, but Tom Bedlam reminds me more of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, or their American ...Read Review
A Man for Temperance
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In 1850, Temperance Peabody, aged 32, manages her OregonTerritory homestead all alone and tends to her neighbors during a cholera outbreak. Her life is serene ...Read Review
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
