HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)

The Executioner’s Heart

By George Mann - Published 2013

Genres:

Historical FantasyMystery/Crime

This novel is the fourth in a series of fantasy/steampunk adventures featuring detectives Sir Maurice Newbury and Veronica Hobbes. For the purposes ...Read Review

Belle Epoque

By Elizabeth Ross - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Paris, 1888. Sixteen-year-old Maude is in search of a better life. But Paris can be a cruel city, and economic necessity drives her to ...Read Review

Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America

By Steven Watts - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

This biography of Dale Carnegie is as engrossing as a good novel. Born in 1888, Carnegie rose from boyhood poverty in rural Missouri. At ...Read Review

The Boleyn Deceit

By Laura Andersen - Published 2013

Genres:

Alternate History

The Boleyn Deceit is second in a proposed alternative history trilogy based on the idea that Anne Boleyn’s son was not stillborn. ...Read Review

The Tilted World

By Beth Ann Fennelly - By Tom Franklin - Published 2013

Genres:

Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly tell the story of a historic catastrophe, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, through the eyes of people ...Read Review

Forever Friday

By Timothy Lewis - Published 2013

Genres:

Romance

In modern-day Texas, Adam Colby has given up on love. A nasty divorce has left him bitter and hopeless, until he stumbles upon ...Read Review

Out of the Rat Trap

By Max Reisch - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

In Out of the Rat Trap, Austrian author Max Reisch details his experiences in the German army during World War II. Reisch had ...Read Review

Red Joan

By Jennie Rooney - Published 2013

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Taking the more unusual approach of not if, but why, this novel is loosely based on the real life 87-year-old grandmother who was ...Read Review

Yudl and Other Stories

By Layle Silbert - Published 2013

Genres:

Short Stories

Layle Silbert grew up in Chicago, the daughter of Russian Jews. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in literary magazines and in ...Read Review

To Wed a Wicked Highlander

By Victoria Roberts - Published 2013

Genres:

Romance

This historical romance is set in the first decade of the 1600s. Sybella (Ella) MacKenzie is married off to Alex, head of the ...Read Review