HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
The Specimen
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In Georgian Edinburgh, Isobel Tait quietly endures anticipatory grief – her son’s rare heart defect is fatal. Isobel’s last hope is dashed ...Read Review
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
Wings to Soar
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Forty percent of the world’s 47 million refugees are under the age of 18. In the middle-grade novel Wings to Soar, Tina Athaide uses ...Read Review
