HNR Issue 59 (February 2012)
Elm Tree Road
Anna Jacobs has a long track record. Some fifty novels, according to the dust jacket of this one, all presumably…
Cherry Tree Lane
Mattie Willitt hates the idea of marriage to her father’s friend Stan, especially when money will change hands between the…
1494: How A Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
“How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half” is the subtitle but could also have possibly…
Agent 6
This sprawling novel begins with Moscow in 1950 with the chilling observation, “The safest way to write a diary was…
Gillespie and I
Editors' choice
Harriet Baxter is sitting in her flat in Bloomsbury in 1933 writing her memoir of events that took place in…
Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s Untold Story
When far-flung cousins pooled their Jewish parents’ letters, they realized they had more than 600, plus diaries and other records.…
Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress
This book tells the true story of the bond between Cecelia Reynolds, who escaped from slavery in 1846, and Fanny…
The Watch That Ends the Night
Editors' choice
Simply put, The Watch That Ends the Night is one of the best books I’ve read all year. Written in…
May B.
Twelve-year-old Mavis Elizabeth Betterly (May B.) is a Kansas prairie pioneer girl, whose parents send her to a neighboring homestead…
Passions of War (Leonora Trilogy)
The second in Green’s World War I trilogy (after Daughters of War, 2010) opens in England in 1914. War is…
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