HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Arizona War: A Colton Brothers Saga
Genres:
The three Colton Brothers get caught up in the American Civil War in 1861 while local Apache uprisings continue to create problems for Texas ...Read Review
The Open Door
Genres:
Constance Fenimore Woolson, the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, was a popular novelist and travel writer in the latter half of the 19th ...Read Review
The Guns of El Kebir
Genres:
The Victorian Empire lends itself quite easily to historical novelists willing to perform the necessary spadework in research tools to provide the setting ...Read Review
Silesian Station
Genres:
American journalist John Russell arrives home in Berlin after a trip to the States in the summer of 1939. After dropping his son off ...Read Review
Love and War
Genres:
This is the second novel of an upstairs-downstairs saga featuring the families at Trenwith. Anyone who has not read the first, Love is ...Read Review
The Little Book
Genres:
Ideally, you’d approach this novel as I did: with intense curiosity about its contents but little knowledge of the plot or characters. ...Read Review
Eleanor vs. Ike
Genres:
In this fascinating alternate history, popular former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is called upon to replace Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 ...Read Review
Keeping Score
Genres:
Linda Sue Park has captured 1951 Brooklyn and hit a home run with her latest release, Keeping Score. Many writers are told to write ...Read Review
Faust in Copenhagen
Genres:
1932 is known by physicists as the “miracle year”, when scientists were undertaking groundbreaking work in quantum theory. The Copenhagen Institute hosted a conference ...Read Review
Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess
Genres:
The governess has played a more important role in literature than she was ever afforded in real life. Most did not have the ...Read Review
