HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
Sacrifice (The Hebraica Trilogy)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
Magicborn
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
1726: Young Thomas and Tempest have no memory of their past, or of each other, as they are hunted by King George l of ...Read Review