HNR Issue 63 (February 2013)
The Plum Tree
Wiseman writes engagingly about WWII from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old German girl on the home front. At…
The Walnut Tree
A light, romantic story, The Walnut Tree takes place at the outbreak of World War I. Lady Elspeth Douglas leads…
Her Father’s Daughter
In November 1945 in Southampton, England, Victoria Teglia reopens the Club Valetta, which her father had run until his death…
Coming Home
It might have been expected that the passing of time would diminish the appeal of works of fiction set in…
Whispers in the Wind
In 1906 South Dakota, Cassie Lockwood, recently cast off from a defunct Wild West show, arrives at the ranch which…
Mary Coin
Editors' choice
Think of the Depression, and the first image that comes to mind is Dorothea Lange’s wrenching photograph of the prematurely…
Twilight of Honor
Wynne Reardon is an Air Force wife whose husband, Michael, is missing in action – then declared dead – in…
My One Square Inch of Alaska
Life in 1950s small-town Groverton, Ohio, doesn’t hold much interest for ambitious high-school senior Donna Lane, who has visions of…
Love in the Years of Lunacy
Love in the Years of Lunacy is a wonderfully written World War II story of siblings who share their love…
Ravenscliffe
Set in Yorkshire in 1904, this novel depicts the lives of ten or more characters living in or around the…
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