HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
The Secret War of Julia Child
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Before Julia Child was Julia Child, she was Julia McWilliams, who served in the OSS (predecessor of the CIA) in the Far East ...Read Review
Power and Obsession
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McCullagh’s Resistance and Revenge was one of my favorite books of 2023. Unfortunately, this offering falls far short of that standard. McCullagh again ...Read Review
Courage for the Cabinet Girl
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The novel opens in August 1939, when nineteen-year-old Katie Valentine is left a legacy from her aunt, on the proviso that she will leave ...Read Review
Friends to the Rescue
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This dual-timeline novel takes place during two traumatic events in the history of Fossa, a small village in the Abruzzi region of Italy. ...Read Review
White House Clubhouse: White House on Fire!
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When Clara and Marissa, daughters of the US president, open a panel underneath a side table in the White House, they slide into ...Read Review
After Oz
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Poor little Dorothy Gale goes missing for four days after a twister devastates Sunbonnet, Kansas, in June 1896. When she’s found unharmed in ...Read Review
Duke of Disguise (Ladies of Worth series)
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John, Lord Avers—titled despite being the third son of a duke—is in 1776 Paris posing as the Duke of Tremaine to help ...Read Review
The Café on Manor Lane
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Kyazze’s touching novel tells an intergenerational story of multicultural Britain through the eyes of three women. In 1952 Bella is a French Jew ...Read Review
The Ballad of Falling Rock
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Saul Crabtree may have sold his soul to the devil for a voice that brings anyone who hears it to tears, or the ...Read Review
A History of the Big House
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A History of the Big House, translated from the French, stands halfway between a novel and a memoir. Majdalani writes to recreate the ...Read Review
