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HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)

When Mountains Move

By Julie Cantrell - Published 2013

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This powerful sequel to the Christy Award-winning Into the Free opens in rural Mississippi in 1943. Just seventeen, Millie Reynolds has decided to marry ...Read Review

The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

In January 1866, Walter Moody, newly arrived in the New Zealand goldfields, stumbles into a furtive gathering of twelve local men who have met ...Read Review

Havisham

By Ronald Frame - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

In this book, Frame allows one of the greatest characters in English literature to tell her story. Miss Havisham, from Charles Dickens’ Great ...Read Review

Thoreau at Devil’s Perch

By B. B. Oak - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

First in a new series, this is a well-constructed murder mystery set in 1840s New England. Thoreau is residing at Walden Pond, and ...Read Review

Blackstone and the Endgame

By Sally Spencer - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1916. After an incident in which Sam Blackstone is (probably) set up, he is on the run like an ordinary criminal. The only way ...Read Review

The Hidden

By Jo Chumas - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

The Hidden is an aggressive debut novel that dares to take on a complex plot set in two time periods, 1919 and 1940, which features ...Read Review

Witchfall

By Victoria Lamb - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Witchfall follows young Meg Lytton to the court of Queen Mary in the service of the Lady Elizabeth. It is a dangerous time ...Read Review

Little Red Lies

By Julie Johnston - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Rachel’s beloved brother is coming home from World War II, and she’s thrilled. But the young man who returns is a ...Read Review

Alone Together: My Life with J. Paul Getty

By Digby Diehl - By Theodora Getty Gaston - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

Society girl turned torch singer Teddy Getty’s memoir of life with billionaire J. Paul Getty is a who’s who of the 1930...Read Review

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

By Jill Lepore - Published 2013

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Nonfiction

Benjamin Franklin corresponded his entire life with his youngest sister, Jane. Born in Boston into poverty, Jane married at fifteen and bore several ...Read Review