HNR Issue 53 (August 2010)
Libertine’s Kiss
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Elizabeth Walters has lost much during the English Civil War, including her father, her husband and her lands. But when a handsome stranger ...Read Review
The Cobras of Calcutta: The Decipherer’s Chronicles
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Between the years 1757 and 1815, the Decipherers were locked in battle with the Cabinet Noir, the secret agency of Britain’s deadly enemy, France. ...Read Review
Romancing Miss Bronte
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Juliet Gael takes readers to the 19th-century Yorkshire village of Haworth, where sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë live in the parsonage with ...Read Review
Somewhere to Belong
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In 1877 Berta Schumacher, a spoiled society girl from Chicago, comes with her parents to live in the Christian community of Amana, where her ...Read Review
Private Life
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Early on, the heroine of this wonderfully deceptive novel, Margaret, rides a bike along a country road: “covering distance in this solitary manner ...Read Review
Testimony of Two Men
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Rereading a popular novel forty years after publication is a unique experience. Then it was just a gripping read, an intriguing story about ...Read Review
Spies of the Balkans
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This latest piece of Furst’s massive WWII jigsaw puzzle opens in October 1940 in Salonika, Macedonia. “Senior Police Official” Costa Zannis is investigating ...Read Review
How High the Moon
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Isabella “Teaspoon” Marlene isn’t one of the good girls. She’s not prim or proper, she pals around with the local prostitutes, ...Read Review
The Return of Captain John Emmett
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London 1921. Laurence Bartram, widower and decorated army officer, is attempting to find a role for himself in post-War society by writing a study ...Read Review
The Poet Prince
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Bestselling author McGowan’s third installment in her “Magdalene Line” series is another exciting historical thriller. The novel slips effortlessly between modern day ...Read Review