HNR Issue 65 (August 2013)
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Lise Dupree, a librarian in Omaha, Nebraska in 1879, is part Native American and is attempting to pass for white. But keeping the secret ...Read Review
Murder in Chelsea
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This fifteenth installment of Victoria Thompson’s popular Gaslight era mysteries hits midwife and widow Sarah Brandt close to home. The parentage of ...Read Review
Summerset Abbey: A Bloom in Winter
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Wealthy sisters Rowena and Victoria Buxton, along with their friend Prudence Tate, return in this sequel to Summerset Abbey. Victoria is drawn into ...Read Review
Unsinkable
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Set on board the Titanic, Unsinkable is a mystery that follows Arthur Beck, former Scotland Yard member looking to start over in America ...Read Review
In the Mind’s Eye
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In this novella set just after World War I, Caitlin, a newly graduated psychologist interning at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, grapples ...Read Review
Grace’s Pictures
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Grace McCaffery needs a new start. She travels from Ireland to America at the turn of the 20th century, hoping to find that ...Read Review
The Last Camellia
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The Middlebury Pink camellia, the last plant of its kind, is rumored to be found on the large estate of Lord Livingston and ...Read Review
Tarnish
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Tarnish, the latest novel from Katherine Longshore, features a familiar historical figure as its central protagonist: Anne Boleyn. While Anne is often a ...Read Review
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen
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From authors like Jane Austen (1791) to Hilary Mantel (2009, 2012), from films like The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) to The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and ...Read Review
From the Mouth of the Whale
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Both learned man and sometime-fool, Jonas Palmason, the narrator of Sjon’s Icelandic novel, has a lyrical, visionary voice that brings to life 17...Read Review