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HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

Sacrifice (The Hebraica Trilogy)

By Christine Jordan - Published 2022

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Gloucester, 1168: Zev is in love with Arlette, but she is promised to a man of higher status in the city’s close-knit Jewish ...Read Review

The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris

By Daisy Wood - Published 2022

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Discovering that her long-planned romantic getaway to Paris with her husband has exposed deep marital divisions, Juliette decides to make a serious (permanent?) ...Read Review

Midnight in Everwood

By M. A. Kuzniar - Published 2022

Genres:

Historical Fantasy Romance

Midnight in Everwood is Kuzniar’s first novel for adults, having previously published for children. The fact that the author writes for children ...Read Review

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

By Hester Fox - Published 2023

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Jane Austen’s title Northanger Abbey is dropped early in The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, but Hester Fox’s latest novel is ...Read Review

The White Lady

By Jacqueline Winspear - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Winspear has stepped away from her popular Maisie Dobbs historical mystery series to give readers a standalone novel, The White Lady. In 1947, Rose ...Read Review

Wild with All Regrets

By Emma Deards - Published 2023

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Though the Great War ended ten years ago, Irishman Lucas Connolly still struggles with his memories of the war and the loss of ...Read Review

Only the Beautiful

By Susan Meissner - Published 2023

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Meissner is riveting in this striking novel that brings together WWII Austria and late-Depression-era California wine country. In the late 1930s, Rosie Maras ...Read Review

Kemp: The Flames of Heresy (Arrows of Albion, 7)

By Jonathan Lunn - Published 2023

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Adventure Military

When he arrives in Bordeaux in the summer of 1356, intent on taking back the captaincy of the freebooting Company of the Dragon, English ...Read Review

The House Is on Fire

By Rachel Beanland - Published 2023

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On December 26, 1811, Richmond, Virginia’s theater burst into flames during a crowded performance, killing nearly a hundred in the audience. In The House ...Read Review