HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Wizard’s Country
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Zululand, in the 1870s, is about to change forever. This tale is told by Benge, a Tshanini tribesman whose clan farms, raises cattle, ...Read Review
Windstorm
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It is wartime Cairo in 1916. Lea Attwood, an intrepid war correspondent, is in Egypt seeking news of her husband, Michael Attwood, who is ...Read Review
Past Caring
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Martin Radford is a floundering, unemployed historian with a dim future who jumps at the chance to research the memoirs of Edwin Strafford, ...Read Review
The Lady of the Manor
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Chris Marr is described as a voracious reader of the Edwardian period with a passion for crime fiction, and his first book is, ...Read Review
The Crystal Skull
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A formulaic thriller made palatable by good writing, The Crystal Skull follows newlywed Cambridge scholar Stella Cody as she struggles to unravel the ...Read Review
March Toward the Thunder
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Prolific author Joseph Bruchac tells the story of a 15-year-old Canadian Abenaki Indian boy who enlists in the Union Army in 1864 to obtain ...Read Review
Snatched
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
A baby is left in a lion cage at a circus, deserted at one day old; he was rescued and brought up by ...Read Review
The Empty Kingdom: The Mark of Solomon, Book Two
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In the conclusion to Wein’s impressive Mark of Solomon duology (and fifth in her Arthurian/Aksumite series for younger readers, set in ...Read Review
The Wolves at the Door
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Virginia Hall wanted nothing more than to work as an officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, and she was on a path ...Read Review
The Triumph of Caesar
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The Roman Civil War has ended with Julius Caesar returning to Rome a hero, around 46 BC. Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia, asks Gordianus the ...Read Review
