HNR Issue 116 (May 2026)
Whiz Kid
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It’s Philadelphia in 1950. Camden boy, baseball fan, and war hero Ben Green is finishing his writing degree at Penn alongside his friends, ...Read Review
The Prodigal of Leningrad
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This novel is set mostly during the Nazis’ horrific siege of Stalingrad with flashbacks to the earliest days of the Bolshevik revolution and ...Read Review
Ultramarine
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In a coastal community in 14th-century England, three motherless brothers are just beginning to find their way in life, without much help from ...Read Review
The Teacher of Lost Orphans
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1946 Cyprus is not the haven Lena Weiss hoped for. A WWII Jewish refugee bound for Palestine, she dreams of new beginnings. Instead, she ...Read Review
Footeprint
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Eunice Newton Foote had a genetic and familial predisposition for science, being a relative of Sir. Isaac Newton himself. But the cultural beliefs ...Read Review
The Sugar Secret
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Since childhood, this reviewer has been in love with Napoleonic naval tales. This one, Book 7 of the Evan Ross series, is set in ...Read Review
Under Two Flags: A Novel of World War I
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In Fall 1916, prior to America entering the Great War, Josephine Therese Marzynski travels to Germany from Boston to study music. She is met ...Read Review
Mrs. Benedict Arnold
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One of the most consequential and impassioned love stories of the American Revolution—and its tragic denouement—flutters off the page in Emma ...Read Review
Passage to Tokyo (Ancestor Memories Fantasy)
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Set in Tokyo in 1923, 1995, and 2025, this New Adult historical fantasy novel will delight readers of historical fiction, time travel and romance. In 1995, 22-year-old ...Read Review
Rust and Bone
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For two hundred years, pockets of German settlers have lived in Ukraine, but when World War II breaks out, their remoteness doesn’t ...Read Review
