HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
The Propagandist
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In the 1960s, when she is six or seven years old, Coline begins paying attention to her mother Lucie’s regular morning gatherings ...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
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
The Secrets of Morgarten
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A handsome knight on the run with a secret mission, a charming tracker with a famous father and a position of pacifism, and ...Read Review
Florida Girls (The Queenpin Chronicles)
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It’s October 1944, and 18-year-old Thelma Miles finds herself in St. Petersburg, Florida – stranded after her bus to Miami leaves without her because ...Read Review
Murder at Mistlethwaite Manor
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Lady Emma Grace Hastings cannot believe her eyes—or her good luck. She has received one of only ten coveted invitations to the ...Read Review
The Longest Exile (The Exile Duology)
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Being the granddaughter of the great Augustus should come with benefits, right? Not so for the protagonist of Ms. Rebellis’s novel. Instead, ...Read Review
The Good Women of Fudi
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Aboard ship, en route to the small Chinese town of Fudi, two men strike up a friendship. Charles is an ‘ocean man’ (foreigner), ...Read Review
The Sparkler
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It is probably true that many people base their view of Charles Dickens, the man, on his relationship with the characters he created ...Read Review
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
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Jack Weatherford based the title of this book on an inscription carved in a stone in the Great Wall of China, about 130 miles ...Read Review
