HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
A Song to Drown Rivers
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Two and a half thousand years ago, a Chinese peasant sends her daughter to the river to wash silk. There is a problem: ...Read Review
What They Said About Luisa
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Reimagined voices in the life and times of Luisa Abrego in 16th-century Spain come astonishingly to life in this novel of historical fiction. ...Read Review
54 Miles
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In the aftermath of WWII in Mobile, Alabama, when a white man asks a Black woman to marry him, it fractures the two ...Read Review
Craze
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It’s the roaring ´20s in New York City, and art critic Henrietta “Henri” Adams has landed a new job as a journalist ...Read Review
The Empress of Cooke County
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In the winter of 1966, thirty-eight-year-old Posey Burch Jarvis has had enough of her unglamorous Tennessee small-town life. Posey styles her hair, clothes and ...Read Review
Berlin Duet
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1938: English spy Harry Taverner spends the night dancing with a married woman, Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell. He is her case officer, and love ...Read Review
Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy
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In Daughters of Bronze, A. D. Rhine (Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinson) continues their feminist retelling of The Iliad, focusing on four women: ...Read Review
A Capital Christmas (Christmas in the Castle)
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This sweet Christmas tale unfolds in the charged atmosphere of Washington, DC in 1859. John Brown has just conducted his raid, and the city ...Read Review
The Jewel of the Blues
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In the early 20th century, Lucille Love, the “Little Girl with the Big Voice,” comes of age in the face of racial prejudices ...Read Review
To Pledge Allegiance
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From the first pages of this engaging novel, readers are immersed in Chicago at the time of Woodrow Wilson’s declaration of war ...Read Review
