HNR Issue 57 (August 2011)
The Wounded Heart
Oh joy! A properly constructed and satisfying story of devotion through the tribulations of war and illness. Though a beautifully…
The Absolutist
Editors' choice
John Boyne is a consummate storyteller, and in his new novel he doesn’t disappoint. You might think there was little…
The German Boy
Elisabeth Mander’s life is in turmoil. It’s 1947, and her dead sister’s teenage son, Stefan Landau, is coming to live…
Escape Artist
This is the second Edna Ferber mystery, being a prequel to Ifkovic’s Lone Star. In Escape Artist, it is 1904…
Stones for my Father
Editors' choice
Corlie has grown up on the Transvaal of South Africa, living with her mother and brothers on a small farm…
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Hysteria was a very real fear up until the late 19th century, and never studied more than at the Salpêtrière…
Child of the Fighting Tenth
This re-released memoir recounts the early life of author Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper Hooker, growing up in the frontier West. The…
The Stones of London
This is the story of twelve London buildings and the men who left their imprint on the fabric of the…
Mornings in Jenin
The novel opens with the olive harvest of 1941 in the Palestinian village of Ein Hod. The pastoral idyll is…
The Private World of Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer loved to write about class, the relationships between men and women, appealing fiends, morals of the Regency era,…
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