HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

The Unforgettable Loretta Darling

By Katherine Blake - Published 2024

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Loretta Reynolds is a character who, on paper, should be irresistible – a plucky, moderately talented makeup artist with enough gumption to get herself ...Read Review

Adventures of Mary Jane

By Hope Jahren - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

This sparkling new novel is based, like several other recent successes, on a character swiped from a classic. Hope Jahren has chosen as ...Read Review

The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne

By Ron Destro - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

When young Nicholas’s printer father is arrested and held for execution in the dead of night, it kicks off a decades-long mystery, ...Read Review

For the Love of My Enemy

By M.E. Blaustone - Published 2024

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This story of a young woman in Windsor, California who falls in love with a German POW in a nearby detention camp during ...Read Review

March Roars

By Maureen Jennings - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

1937 Toronto, Canada. On a roaring cold March morning, a Private Investigator, Charlotte Frayne, receives a strange letter. The letter from Mrs. Brodie, who ...Read Review

What Happened on Thursday? A Nigerian Civil War Story

By Ayo Oyeku - By Lydia Mba (illus.) - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

From Thursday, July 6, 1967, to Thursday, January 15, 1970, Nigeria was in a civil war. Narrated by a young girl, this story shows how war affects ...Read Review

White Mulberry

By Rosa Kwon Easton - Published 2024

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In 1928, Korea is choking under the iron heel of the Japanese occupation. A village girl from an impoverished family has few choices. But ...Read Review

The Time Keeper

By Meagan Mahoney - Published 2024

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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

The Time Keeper is a lively mystery set in Edinburgh, Scotland in the year 1902. When eleven-year-old Malcolm’s best friend, Peter, becomes unexplainably ...Read Review

Return to the Irish Boarding House

By Sandy Taylor - Published 2024

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In Dublin, 1956, Mary Kate Barry is mourning the unexpected loss of her husband. Recognizing that Mary Kate is deeply depressed, her best friend, ...Read Review

The Curse of Madame Petrova

By Annette Fienieg (illus.) - By Bill Nagelkerke (trans.) - By Marjolijn Hof - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

Silke and her twin brother Janis were separated at birth after a dire prophecy by the mysterious Madame Petrova predicted that each would ...Read Review