HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)

Teatime for the Firefly

By Shona Patel - Published 2013

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Teatime for the Firefly creates a vivid portrayal of the exotic world of the Assam tea plantations and Indian life during both WWII ...Read Review

Henry and Rachel

By Laurel Saville - Published 2013

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Biographical Fiction

In the second decade of the 20th century, Rachel, the author’s great-grandmother, uprooted herself and four of her children from their home ...Read Review

The Jacobite Murders

By G. M. Best - Published 2013

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Adventure

According to the back cover blurb G M Best has received good reviews for his previous books, and it is true that the ...Read Review

The Pagan Lord

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2013

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AdventureMilitary

I do not generally read series of books, but I do read the Uhtred books, and greet each one with pleasure. It inevitably ...Read Review

Strangled in Paris

By Claude Izner - Published 2011(UK)Published 2013 (US)

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Mystery/Crime

Courentin Jourdan rescues the young Sophie Clairsange from the tides along the Normandy Coast. He revives her and sends her to the nuns ...Read Review

It Happened at the Fair

By Deeanne Gist - Published 2013

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InspirationalRomance

Gist does a fine job of capturing the splendor of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, partly through the use of photographs and contemporary drawings. Cullen, ...Read Review

Neville’s Quest

By Ken Holdsworth - Published 2012

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AdventureRomance

The action takes place in 1754. Thomas Neville is in search of his lost love Emily, and to find her, he travels across the ...Read Review

Sweet Thunder

By Ivan Doig - Published 2013

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Western

Ivan Doig’s third historical novel featuring erudite con man Morrie Morgan finds our hero in 1921 Butte, Montana, back from his year-long honeymoon ...Read Review

Daughter of the God-King

By Anne Cleeland - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureRomance

Daughter of the God-King takes places in the early 19th century, at the time of the Congress of Vienna and Napoleon’s exile ...Read Review

The Signature of All Things

By Elizabeth Gilbert - Published 2013

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Epic

Brimming with verve, wit, and intellectual curiosity, Gilbert’s absorbing epic embodies the spirit of the transformative 19th century: an age of exploration, ...Read Review