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HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)

Before Green Gables

By Budge Wilson - Published 2008

Genres:

Having never liked Anne of Green Gables, I didn’t expect to enjoy this book. How wrong I was! For this prequel to ...Read Review

Franklin and Lucy

By Joseph E. Persico - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

The Blood of Caesar: A Second Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger

By Albert A. Bell jr. - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

I’m a fan of historical mysteries but hadn’t read Albert A. Bell’s work before, and was thrilled to discover this ...Read Review

Emerald Silk

By Janet Lane - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

The second book in Lane’s Coin Forest medieval romance series set in 15th- century England features Kadriya, a half-English, half-Gypsy orphan who ...Read Review

A Lady’s Secret

By Jo Beverley - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

Fans of Jo Beverley will be glad to learn that there is a new romance on the market involving the intriguing Malloren family. ...Read Review

Agamemnon’s Daughter

By David Bellos (trans.) - By Ismail Kadare - Published 2007 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

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Literary Short Stories

Tyranny is the theme of this absorbing novella and two short stories. Written by Albania’s best known novelist, who experienced totalitarianism firsthand, ...Read Review

Her Every Pleasure

By Galen Foley - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

Romance

Princess Sophia and Major Gabriel Knight are the main characters in the third part of Gaelen Foley’s Spice trilogy. Sophia has been ...Read Review

Web of Destiny

By Al Lacy - By JoAnna Lacy - Published 2008

Genres:

Inspirational Romance Western

These first two volumes in the Kane Legacy series follow youngest son Alan Kane as he emigrates from 1834 Boston to Texas, with the ...Read Review

Two Men

By Elizabeth Stoddard - By Jennifer Putzi (ed.) - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Originally published in 1865, Two Men begins when Jason Auster, a carpenter, leaves home to start a new life. His stagecoach makes a stop ...Read Review

The Creator’s Map

By Emilio Calderón - By Katherine Silver (trans.) - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

The violent death of an aristocratic former Fascist and Nazi sympathiser in 1952 is the catalyst for this mystery story set among Spanish refugees ...Read Review