HNR Issue 64 (May 2013)
Sinners and the Sea: The Untold Story of Noah’s Wife
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In the vein of The Red Tent, which memorialized the little-known life of Jacob’s only daughter, Dinah, Sinners and the Sea purports ...Read Review
Royal Mistress
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Anne Easter Smith’s novel of the infamous Jane Shore, Royal Mistress, spans Jane’s life over the notorious 10-year period when she ...Read Review
The Devil’s Recruit
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This is the fourth novel with Alexander Seaton as its hero, but it was my first introduction to him. The novel is set ...Read Review
Awakening
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1860. A year after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking Origin of Species, the evangelical community of Wiltshire has far more important matters on their ...Read Review
Red Sky in Morning
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Coll Coyle makes a dreadful mistake that changes the course of his life and is set to lose everything as he stands up ...Read Review
Rio Tinto
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Hired as a muleskinner for the Red Devil Salt Works, Wil Chama drives the salt wagons from Tinto Flats to the town of ...Read Review
Hammett Unwritten
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
The one word that comes to mind when reading Owen Fitzstephen’s Hammett Unwritten (as discovered and edited by Gordon McAlpine) is “atmosphere.” ...Read Review
Honey Brown is Married
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Dreadful title, very enjoyable book. The novel follows the fortunes of Honey Brown (previously, abandoned orphan Annie) after she has left her career ...Read Review
Chojun
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Before World War II, the island of Okinawa was a world of quiet fishing communities, modest homes, and Goju Ryu Karate. The hero ...Read Review
The Tin Horse
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Elaine Greenstein is downsizing to a retirement home, but her life as a fierce civil rights lawyer is important enough that the library ...Read Review