HNR Issue 64 (May 2013)
The House Girl
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Art, slavery and the nature of freedom are the themes of Tara Conklin’s haunting and powerful novel. Lina Sparrow is a young ...Read Review
The Boleyn King
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What if Anne Boleyn had not miscarried of her son and savior in the winter of 1536 and instead had given Henry VIII the ...Read Review
Mission Libertad
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Young teen Luisito Ramirez and his parents flee Cuba in 1979, on a rickety raft with a failing motor. They lose their food and ...Read Review
The Quietness
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Queenie is desperate to escape the harsh reality of daily survival in her poverty-stricken home. Love exists there but is dulled by the ...Read Review
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
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This notorious case has undergone numerous academic and popular study, following the centenary of Alfred Dreyfus’ rehabilitation in 1906. The subtitle of Read’s ...Read Review
Recipe for Treason: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery
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What a wonderful combination of a Regency-era cloak-and-dagger mystery and chocolate cookbook! Each chapter features a mouthwatering recipe of Lady Arianna’s as ...Read Review
Miss Whittier Makes a List
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In 1801, young American Quaker Hannah Whittier is an innocent victim of the Napoleonic wars when she is shipwrecked after a French attack. She ...Read Review
Music of a Life
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In this densely written novella, Russian author Andrei Makine evokes the grim, gray, repressive atmosphere of Soviet Russia from the early 1940s to ...Read Review
The King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero
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In The King Arthur Conspiracy, Simon Stirling traces the legend of the British king back to Scottish and Welsh early literature to uncover ...Read Review
The Liars’ Gospel
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The life of Yehoshuah (Jesus) is related from the perspective of four people who appear in the gospels, but each story departs radically ...Read Review