HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)

Swords from the Desert

By Harold Lamb - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

Collected in Swords from the Desert are seven exciting stories set during the crusades and in 17th-century India and the Middle East, featuring ...Read Review

The Betrayal

By Mary Hooper - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two young charges, Beth ...Read Review

To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West

By Mark Lee Gardner - Published 2010

Genres:

NonfictionWestern

The saga of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, began in 1877 when he was just 17 and killed a man in a ...Read Review

Rich Girl, Poor Girl

By Val Wood - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

This saga is set in 1860 and follows the lives of two young women who both experience the same tragedy on the same day – ...Read Review

The Spies of Sobeck

By P. C. Doherty - By Paul Doherty - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Pharaoh Hatshepsut, or Hatusu as she is called in this novel, is facing the toppling of her throne in Egypt of 1477 BC. A ...Read Review

The Whaler’s Forge

By Christine Echeverria Bender - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

Over a century before Columbus“discovered” the New World, Basque whalers were already hunting whales and setting up whaling camps in what are ...Read Review

An Ill Wind

By David Donachie - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

It is always awkward when you start reading a series several books in, and it took me some time to work out what ...Read Review

Captive of Sin

By Anna Campbell - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

On a cold February night in 1821, Sir Gideon Trevithick finds an exhausted, ragged, dirty girl hiding in his horse’s stall at an ...Read Review

That Certain Spark

By Cathy Marie Hake - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

In 1892, twins Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive in Gooding, Texas with signed contracts to serve as local veterinarian and medical doctor. The twins ...Read Review

The Carousel Painter

By Judith Miller - Published 2009

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

Orphaned artist Carrington (Carrie) Brouwer intends to find a job and live independently, something “not done” in 1890 small-town Ohio society. Arriving on the ...Read Review