HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
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There can be few challenges more daunting for a writer than attempting to take on the voice of another writer, particularly one known ...Read Review
The Debonair Duke
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On her website, Emily Hendrickson says: ‘[T]oo many of the peers we encounter in Regency novels sound more American than British. A ...Read Review
Catching the Current
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Catching the Current is a companion to Jenny Pattrick’s earlier “Denniston” novels. It tells the story of Conrad Rasmussen, the enigmatic and ...Read Review
The Edge of Eden
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The Edge of Eden is rich in contrasts: the Seychelles Islands and fog-shrouded London; well-to-do British colonists and the poverty of natives; religious ...Read Review
Last Nocturne
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A young artist on the verge of success throws himself out of his window, to be impaled on the iron fence below. An ...Read Review
Too Many Murders: A Carmine Delmonico Novel
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With a population of only 150,000, Holloman, Connecticut, isn’t technically large enough to have its own homicide department, but on April 3, 1967, Captain Carmine ...Read Review
The Carnivore
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On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel pounded Toronto with high winds and torrential rains. When the swollen rivers flooded their banks, bridges were swept off ...Read Review
Alcestis
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Those familiar with Greek mythology may recall Alcestis as the symbol of an ideal wife, a woman who so loved her husband, Admetus, ...Read Review
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter
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In her third historical for teens, Lisa Klein offers a new take on Macbeth’s bloody rise to power through the alternating narratives ...Read Review
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family
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The author has dedicated this publication to her father, and rightly so. His desire to research and record his family history laid the ...Read Review