HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
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This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In 1901, the president of ...Read Review
The Ghosts of Athens
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Athens of 612 AD is a decadent and vulnerable city, threatened by starving barbarian tribes. Richard Blake’s protagonist, Aelric, a senator of the ...Read Review
Bring Up the Bodies
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It is 1535, and Henry VIII has become bored with Anne Boleyn. After upheaving the country and the Church in his efforts to divorce ...Read Review
Fate
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In 1717, on his 17th birthday, Lord Francis Damory discovers a book linking him to his great-great grandfather, Tobias, an alchemist who may yet ...Read Review
In Too Deep
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1866 Colorado: Rather than return East, widowed Audra reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage to her stepdaughter’s brother-in-law, Ethan. Both have issues that ...Read Review
Deadly Legacy
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This is the seventh novel featuring Inspector Faro’s daughter Rose McQuinn, who works as a private investigator. Rose agrees to help old ...Read Review
A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
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While Lee and McClellan spar in the Eastern theater of what has become a full-blown war, Union and Confederate forces are squaring off ...Read Review
The Laurels of Lake Constance
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Nazi sympathizers – especially Nazi sympathizers in war-torn France – are atypical protagonists in historical novels. Albert B. is a chemical engineer whose anti-Communist fervor ...Read Review
Trouble Brewing
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On a friend’s recommendation, Harold Rushton Hunt, owner of Hunt Coffee, asks Jack Haldean to find out what happened to his great-nephew. ...Read Review
For the Love of Catherine
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Crossing on the Titanic to see her sister on the New York stage, a young mother, Mair (the heroine of the story); her ...Read Review
