HNR Issue 57 (August 2011)
The Mermaid Garden
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Heartache and romance wing their way from a palazzo in Italy to an old hotel in Devon-by-the-Sea in England – and the story unravels ...Read Review
Stealing Mona Lisa
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Few people know that 2011 is the centennial of one of the greatest art heists in history: the theft of Da Vinci’s “Mona ...Read Review
Springtime of the Spirit
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Christophe Brecht, a German sniper, has returned from war to find his country in ruins. Eager for work, he accepts an offer from ...Read Review
What You See in the Dark
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The scene opens on a diner in Bakersfield, California. A young couple – he, the popular boy in town, she, the shy Mexican girl ...Read Review
Incognito
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Usually creating suspense means making the reader wonder what will happen next, but in this story of New York circa 1911, we wonder about ...Read Review
The Headhunter’s Daughter
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A baby disappears in the Belgian Congo in 1945, and 13 years later a young white girl is “rescued” from the headhunting Bashilele tribe that ...Read Review
A Man of Parts: A Novel
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As I read this lengthy novel, I often needed to remind myself that it is a work of fiction and not biography. The ...Read Review
A Good Hard Look
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Flannery O’Connor is one of the great figures of 20th-century American literature, an icon of Southern fiction whose life was cut tragically ...Read Review
Far To Go
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In 1938, Czechoslovakia is in crisis, as is all of Europe, but at the home of Pavel and Anneliese Bauer in a small Bohemian ...Read Review
Half of the Human Race
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The title refers to women, who for much of this book are without the vote. In summer 1911, Connie Callaway, would-be surgeon and daughter ...Read Review
