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HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)

South of the Border

By James Ryan - Published 2008

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Ireland 1942. Matt Duggan, fresh out of college, starts his first post as a teacher at the boys’ school in the small town ...Read Review

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

By Beatrice Colin - Published 2008

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Born to a cabaret singer but orphaned in scandalous circumstances, Lilly is alone in the world. She is brought up at St. Xavier’...Read Review

The Color of Lightning

By Paulette Jiles - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Western

Freedman Britt Johnson, his wife, and their three children left their home in Kentucky to homestead on the North Texas plains at the ...Read Review

Follow Me

By Joanna Scott - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

If you enjoy family sagas layered with secrets and betrayal, stories which contain a host of entangled relationships and that expertly engage your ...Read Review

Madewell Brown

By Rick Collignon - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

When Obie Poole, a retired Negro League baseball player from the ’20s, met Rachael Poole, he knew this orphan girl had to be ...Read Review

The King of Ragtime

By Larry Karp - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The King of Ragtime is Karp’s second mystery featuring Scott Joplin. Following The Ragtime Kid, set in 1899 in Sedalia, Missouri, after the ...Read Review

Burnt Shadows

By Kamila Shamsie - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary Saga

Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is to marry walk into infinity ...Read Review

A Quiet Flame

By Philip Kerr - Published 2008 Published 2009

Genres:

Literary Mystery/Crime

Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph Eichmann for company. ...Read Review

Oh, Johnny

By Jim Lehrer - Published 2009

Genres:

Military

In the opening scene of Jim Lehrer’s Oh, Johnny, we encounter nineteen-year-old Johnny Wrigley aboard a marine troop train bound for California ...Read Review