HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
The Age of Dreaming
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Set in Hollywood of the 1960s, this novel is a surprisingly rich tale that tells the story of an aging star of the ...Read Review
Black Heart of Jamaica
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1792. In Cat Royal’s fifth adventure, our heroine finds herself and her African virtuoso violinist friend, Pedro, sailing to Jamaica with the Peabody ...Read Review
Feasting the Wolf
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“Feasting the wolf” means leaving dead on the battlefield – and there is plenty to feast on in this dark tale of Viking adventure. ...Read Review
Best of Covered Wagon Women
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Collected in Best of Covered Wagon Women are eight mid-19th century accounts of the Western overland journey. These journals and several letters ...Read Review
Franklin and Lucy
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In Franklin and Lucy, historian Joseph Persico follows up his revealing work, Roosevelt’s Secret War, with a more personal look at the ...Read Review
Claudia: Daughter of Rome
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Claudia: Daughter of Rome is set in the early years of the Roman Empire, when the empire is consolidating its political and military ...Read Review
The Merchant’s Mark
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Augie Morrison had ordered a quantity of books from the Low Countries, planning on keeping some for himself, giving some to his friend, ...Read Review
Midwife of the Blue Ridge
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This novel begins just after the battle at Culloden Moor in 1746, when young Maggie Duncan joins the Cameron household, having just lost her ...Read Review
Pearl’s Redemption
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The widow of an abusive man, Pearl Lloyd’s life should have been on the upswing, but things had never been easy. Still ...Read Review
The Resurrection Men
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Thomas Potts is the reluctant, despised, badly paid Parish Constable in 1826 Redditch, centre of needle manufacturing in the Midlands. He has a termagant ...Read Review
