HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
My Splendid Concubine
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When Robert Hart escapes his conservative English family for China, he’s hoping to change his life for the better. Raised with traditional ...Read Review
Counting the Stars
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Ancient Rome in the late Republic was an unsettled place: violence, corruption and murder were a tangible part of the brutal world empire ...Read Review
The Templar
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At the end of the 11th century, the Infidels captured Jerusalem. On November 27th, 1095, the call went out from Pope Urban II to ...Read Review
The Secret Bride
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Another episode in today’s Tudormania. The story of Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s younger sister, is relatively unknown to the reading public. ...Read Review
Bound
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Gunning’s second outstanding historical novel explores a young woman’s difficult coming of age, a process that teaches her much about freedom, ...Read Review
The Spiritualist
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Middle-class Evelyn’s dreams appear to have come true when Peter Atherton, scion of one of New York’s most prominent families, proposes ...Read Review
The German Bride
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It’s Berlin, 1865, and Eva Frank, the romantic daughter of a Jewish banker, falls in love with a handsome painter commissioned by her ...Read Review
The Ghost Map : A Street, A City, An Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks
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THE GHOST MAP: A Street, A City, An Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban In 1854 a cholera epidemic broke out in London’...Read Review
The Glass Word
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This third volume of Meyer’s Dark Reflections fantasy trilogy takes place in an alternate universe where the Egyptian Empire, with its ...Read Review
Nick of Time
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Set in the summers of both 1939 and 1805 in the English Channel, Bell has fashioned a boy’s adventure courtesy of a time ...Read Review
