HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
The Show That Smells
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Jimmie Rodgers, Carrie Rodgers, Elsa Schiaparelli, Lon Chaney, Coco Chanel, the Carter Family, and the reader in a mirror maze. Carrie trades her ...Read Review
The Lady in Red
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When well-bred heiress Seymour Fleming married the urbane Isle of Wight landowner and politician Sir Richard Worsley, it seemed no different from many ...Read Review
Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West
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This collection of letters, between Leroy Carpenter, of Greeley, Colorado, and Martha Bennett, of DeWitt, Iowa, covers from January 1871 to April 1872, and provides ...Read Review
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
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In The Enemy at the Gate, Andrew Wheatcroft sets out the political background to the 1683 siege of Vienna in clear detail. There had ...Read Review
The Hidden Oasis
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The Hidden Oasis brings together a group of priests who hide a mysterious object in the desert in the year 2152 BC. Bedouin tribesmen, ...Read Review
The Inheritance of Rome
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A distinguished professor of medieval history at Oxford and author of the award-winning Framing the Middle Ages, Chris Wickham presents a comprehensive and ...Read Review
A Winding Road
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The circumstances surrounding a masterpiece’s creation – witness Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – is fertile ground for fiction writers. In A ...Read Review
Up West
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Pip Granger’s first novel, Not All Tarts Are Apple, won the first Harry Bowling Award. It was the story of a young ...Read Review
Anson’s Way
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In this reprint geared towards ages 9-12 from Newbery Honor author Gary D. Schmidt, Anson Staplyton, a drummer with the Staffordshire Fencibles, is ...Read Review
The Scourging Angel
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The author has written a comprehensive study of the Great Death (as it was called at the time – The Black Death was a 19...Read Review
