HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle
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Young Carlota is the daughter of an Argentinian diplomat in the US during the Kennedy years. Her governess – the eponymous Mademoiselle – is a ...Read Review
Roses
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Howbutker, a small town in east Texas, is home to three dynasties: the DuMonts, the Warwicks, and the Tolivers. The history of the ...Read Review
A Short History of Women
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“‘What can be done?’ asks Man.‘What cannot be done?’ answers Woman.” This apt quote signifies the thrust of five generations of women ...Read Review
Transgression: A Novel of Love and War
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In 1941, in German-occupied France, 16-year-old Adele Georges meets Manfred Halder. Halder, a 19-year-old German working as a clerk, offers to help Adele find ...Read Review
Sure and Certain Death: A Francis Hancock Mystery
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Francis Hancock is a middle-aged, half-English, half-Indian undertaker whose London “manor” is being systematically dismantled by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in World War Two. ...Read Review
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
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In 1933, when she is ten years old, Velva Jean Hart is saved for the first time. And she is “saved” with the full ...Read Review
A Time for Every Season
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This is, I suppose, a saga, although it covers many themes – murder, blackmail, medicine, war and farming, to name a few. Set during ...Read Review
Shadow on the Land
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In 1909, the Pacific Northwest had become an attractive place to settle. Several railroad lines competed for the lucrative rail business into central Oregon. ...Read Review
Broken Jewel
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A Japanese prison camp in the Philippines is the setting for a tense novel of brutality, endurance, hope, and, most of all, love. ...Read Review
Our Lady of the Night
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This novel is set in Puerto Rico during the first half of the 20th century. It opens with the protagonist, Isabel Luberza, presiding ...Read Review