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HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl

By Renee Rosen - Published 2023

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New York City and its fashionable department store Saks Fifth Avenue is the setting for Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl. A chance encounter at ...Read Review

Daughters of Victory

By Gabriella Saab - Published 2023

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Russia, 1917, and the USSR, 1940s: Svetlana Vasilyevna Petrova defies her aristocratic family and joins the Russian Revolution, becoming a member of the Socialist ...Read Review

Ana María and The Fox (The Luna Sisters)

By Liana De la Rosa - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

Mexican heiress Ana María and her two sisters, Isabel and Gabriela, flee the second French occupation of Mexico by sailing to London. ...Read Review

The Cuban Heiress

By Chanel Cleeton - Published 2023

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In 1934 the luxurious ocean liner, the Morro Castle, begins a voyage from New York to Havana and back again. American heiress Catherine Donan ...Read Review

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine

By Katherine Marsh - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This dual-timeline narrative begins in 2020 with 12-year-old Matthew, homebound because of Covid lockdowns and separated from his journalist father posted to Europe. Because ...Read Review

The Agency for Scandal

By Laura Wood - Published 2023

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult

If you fancy a rip-roaring YA adventure, look no further than this novel which features feisty Victorian heroine Isobel Stanhope. She’s leading ...Read Review

After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing)

By Amanda Cabot - Published 2023

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Inspirational Romance Western

After the Shadows is a captivating historical romance set in 1882 in the Hill Country of Texas. Emily Leland, a widow, returns to her ...Read Review

The Castle Keepers

By Aimie K. Runyan - By J'nell Ciesielski - By Rachel Mcmillan - Published 2023

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The castle: Leedswick Castle in Northbridge, England, a fortress with crumbling stones and overgrown gardens in 1870, paint-chipped walls and dusty windows in 1917, and ...Read Review

Listen

By Sheldon Russell - Published 2023

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Atlas, Oklahoma, 1930s. During the Great Depression, with no other jobs in sight, Liam begins working for the Federal Writers’ Project. He will ...Read Review

Vita and the Birds

By Polly Crosby - Published 2023

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Vita and the Birds shifts between 1938 and 1997 and follows two women – Lady Vita Goldsborough and Eve Blakeney – as they each attempt to cope ...Read Review