HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
A Waltz with Traitors
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Due to their loyalty to Tsar Nicholas II, Nadia’s father, mother, and aunt are executed by the Russian secret police, the Cheka. ...Read Review
Reluctant Pilgrim
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Margery Kempe is credited with having written the first English autobiography. Not that she wrote it herself—she did not know how to. ...Read Review
The Misadventures of Margaret Finch
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Blackpool, 1938, and Margaret Finch, who has just begun work for Mass Observation, carefully observes the sideshows on the Golden Mile. Among them is ...Read Review
The War Pianist
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A gently-paced, thoroughly researched and informative novel which tells the story of a little-known group of World War II resistance fighters in occupied ...Read Review
The Davenports
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Marquis dazzles in this debut of glitz, glamour, and Jim Crow. In Chicago in 1910, 19-year-old Olivia Davenport is expected to find a husband, ...Read Review
A Tempest at Sea (The Lady Sherlock Series)
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AdventureMystery/CrimeNautical
Thomas charms in this seventh outing of her “Lady Sherlock” series. Charlotte Holmes, better known as her alter ego “Sherlock Holmes,” London’s ...Read Review
Caravans in the Dark
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This novel centers on the invasion of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement that allowed Germany to occupy the young Czech Republic and enslave ...Read Review
Wild Bird
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In the late 1300s, the plague spreads through Europe to Norway. A girl is the only survivor of her fishing village and is ...Read Review
The Dutch Orphan
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This gripping World War II story is set mostly in Amsterdam. Singer Johanna Vos is horrified by the Nazi cruelties, and works with ...Read Review
Two Wars and a Wedding
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Set during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Spanish-American War of 1898, Two Wars and a Wedding is the story of Betsy Hayes, a ...Read Review
