HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)
Black Orchids
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The first ninety pages and the last thirty of this profound novel are arresting, sensual, initially in 1946 Ceylon, later 1972 Sri Lanka. The book ...Read Review
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
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Fifth in Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series, this latest outing finds historian Eloise Kelly sidetracked in her search for the floral spy of ...Read Review
Babylonne
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Sixteen-year-old Babylonne, an orphan reared to the Cathar faith in the Languedoc region of 13th-century France, suffers abuse and humiliation in the home ...Read Review
Kentucky Clay
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When I received this book to review, I expected it to be largely centered on two of Kentucky’s most famous Clays, statesman ...Read Review
From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
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Lost in the Western frontier tales of steely-eyed gunfighters, crafty cattle thieves, and daring bank robbers is the slow but steady evolution of ...Read Review
City of the Dead: A Seven Wonders Novel
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When Pharaoh’s chief wife is found dead, Hemiunu, the Grand Vizier who oversees the building of the Great Pyramid, is suspected of ...Read Review
Scarlet
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In the second book of his King Raven trilogy Stephen Lawhead continues his re-imagination of the Robin Hood legend as mythic Welsh adventure, ...Read Review
The King’s Grey Mare
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Elizabeth Woodville, young and unbelievably beautiful, finds favor at the court of her mother’s cousin, Marguerite of Anjou. Catching the eye of ...Read Review
In The Shadow of the Sun King
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Madeleine Clavell is devastated when her estate is overtaken by the king’s dragoons. As a Huguenot in Catholic France, she hides her ...Read Review
Mr Darcy’s Dream
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Phoebe Hawkins, niece to Mr. Darcy, is twenty years old, handsome, and well-born, and she possesses a fortune of fifty thousand pounds. Unfortunately, ...Read Review