HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
Cascade
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It is 1935, the country is in the chokehold of the Great Depression, and Desdemona Hart would do just about anything to help her ...Read Review
The Island House
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When archaeologist Freya Dane’s absentee father dies, she inherits his dilapidated old home on Findnar, an island off the Scottish coast. Though ...Read Review
The History Keepers: The Storm Begins
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyTime-slip
The first volume of this fantasy series introduces Jake Djones, providing a fresh angle on time-slip novels. When his parents go missing for ...Read Review
Victorio’s War
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Children/Young AdultMilitaryWestern
In this third installment in the Desert Legends trilogy, young Jim Doolen is a scout for the 10th U.S. Cavalry as they ...Read Review
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
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What do you know about the Taiping Rebellion, or the Taiping Civil War as Stephen Platt prefers to call it? If the answer ...Read Review
The Queen’s Head
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This paperback is a reissue of the first of the Bracewell Elizabethan mysteries originally published in 1988. Nicholas Bracewell is an ex-sailor who circumnavigated ...Read Review
Murder on Fifth Avenue
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Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy return once more in Thompson’s fourteenth Gaslight Mystery novel set in 1890s New York City. ...Read Review
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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This early novel by Saramago, available in translation in the U.S. for the first time, is the perfect companion publication to Small ...Read Review
The Reckoning
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The second book of The Taker Trilogy, this novel promises to be a supernatural thriller, the kind of story in which people chase ...Read Review
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel
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Was Thomas Becket a saint or sinner? John Guy comprehensively describes medieval sacred and political history so that one understands the origins of ...Read Review
