HNR Issue 67 (February 2014)
The Girl Who Came Home
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Maggie Murphy is being taken to America to begin a new life with her aunt, and she is unsure about leaving her Irish ...Read Review
The World’s Smallest Bible
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The World’s Smallest Bible is an impressive work of literary fiction that chronicles the life of Ethan Mueller, over a span of 43 ...Read Review
Babayaga
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Babayaga is in some sense an historical novel, in that it is set in Paris in the late 1950s at the height of ...Read Review
Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind
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While this novel is most definitely a Regency romance, its title character, Jane Milton, is not caught in a standard love triangle. Kelly’...Read Review
The Maid of Milan
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Why should frail Adelaide Leeson, three years married to Lord Tristan, so dread a visit from his friend, James, now Viscount Dewhurst and ...Read Review
The Serpent and the Staff
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It is 1450 B.C.E. in Ugarit, Syria, and past time for Leah to be betrothed. Born into a family with royal blood, ...Read Review
The House of Medici: Inheritance of Power
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This is the first in a trilogy of novels about the rise and fall of the wealthy banking family whose name is practically ...Read Review
The Devil’s Tongue: Bresciano Accused
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Set in Gibraltar in the spring of 1793, this novel has a real sense, particularly, of place. There is a plan included so the ...Read Review
The Infamous Rosalie
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Lisette, a Creole slave, works in the plantation house of owners better than some in the 1750s. Still, they could have her killed ...Read Review
The Outcasts
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Set in the wild Texas of 1870, with a side trip to New Orleans, The Outcasts begins like a Larry McMurtry novel but with ...Read Review