HNR Issue 63 (February 2013)
The Little Shadows
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Canadian writer Marina Endicott’s novel is set in Canada around the time of the First World War. It tells the story of ...Read Review
Calling Me Home
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Julie Kibler’s debut novel travels between the current era and the late 1930s to early ´40s. The outer rim of the story ...Read Review
Summon Up the Blood: A Silas Quinn Mystery
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Morris begins a new series (after The Cleansing Flame, 2011) with a grisly novel set in the foreboding atmosphere of London in 1914. Detective Inspector ...Read Review
My One Square Inch of Alaska
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Life in 1950s small-town Groverton, Ohio, doesn’t hold much interest for ambitious high-school senior Donna Lane, who has visions of becoming a ...Read Review
The Lincoln Letter
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I never miss the chance to read a Peter Fallon/Evangeline Carrington novel because Martin has the uncanny ability to seamlessly interweave a ...Read Review
Falling for Henry
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Falling for Henry tells the story of Kate, a 16-year-old girl who stumbles upon a hole in time and switches places with the ...Read Review
Watching Jimmy
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It’s 1958, and Canada doesn’t yet have universal health care. That’s bad news for Jimmy, who was brain-damaged by his “Uncle” ...Read Review
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
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This extraordinary and important book is based on 20 years of research on the horrific failure of the Great Leap Forward in China in ...Read Review
A Woman of Angkor
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Sray is the “Woman of Angkor.” It’s a simple name for a simply named novel about the momentous historical events in remote ...Read Review
Deception
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England’s 13th-century silk trade is no place for a woman – or is it? Sophia Darnly’s father, merchant and royal judge, was ...Read Review
