HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre
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The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre immerses the reader in the world of post-World War II France as the titular character seeks ...Read Review
A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney
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Before every novel or film about Billy the Kid, a decision of good or evil, hero or villain, must be settled. For Western ...Read Review
Beyond That, the Sea
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In 1940, as German bombs destroy London, Beatrix Thompson’s parents send her, at age eleven, to live out the war with a family ...Read Review
The Shinnery
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Teenaged Jessa Campbell is content on her family’s Texas homestead, the Shinnery, farming alongside her father and sharing secrets with her closest ...Read Review
Can’t I Go Instead
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In the near-feudal Korea of the 1920s, Chaeryeong, a nobleman’s daughter, is to be given a peasant girl as a “birthday present.” ...Read Review
Little Writer (Marmee’s Girls)
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In Little Writer, a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 classic Little Women from Jo March’s first-person vantage, author Marina Hill reimagines ...Read Review
The Weeds
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Two women, one in 2018 and one in 1854, pursue the same task—cataloging the plants that grow in the ruins of the Colosseum in ...Read Review
River Spirit
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The Nuba Mountains, Sudan, in 1881, and a village woman slips from her husband’s bed, evades soldiers on guard, and runs through the ...Read Review
To Swoon and to Spar (The Regency Vows)
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Jane Spencer is tired of having her life controlled by men, so when she falls in love with an estate on the coast ...Read Review
The Cliff’s Edge (Bess Crawford Mysteries, 13)
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Thirteenth in the well-loved Bess Crawford series, The Cliff’s Edge is set in 1919 postwar England. WWI overshadows the lives of these characters, ...Read Review
