HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Prisoner 88
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Leah Pileggi’s Prisoner 88 is a fictional account of the real-life imprisonment of ten-year-old Jake Oliver Evans in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary in 1885. ...Read Review
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
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In the 1830s the world was enamored with science and the new inventions, technologies, discoveries (real and fraudulent) that appeared daily. No science ...Read Review
The Dancing Master
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Alec Valcourt, a dancing master by trade, finds himself and his family at the mercy of his uncle’s generosity in the village ...Read Review
The Homesman
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Anyone who imagines that a homesteader’s life on America’s Great Plains was all “Little House on the Prairie” hasn’t tried ...Read Review
The Lost Prince
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This terrific novel was first published in 1915 and has all the hallmarks of fiction written before WW1: beauty of expression, pace, adventure and, ...Read Review
Dark Invasion
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Though the United States remained neutral early in World War I, they sent munitions and supplies to fortify the Allies. The Germans responded ...Read Review
The Thief
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It’s the time of the greatest prophet, the Messiah, awaited by the Jewish people of Jerusalem. It’s also the time of ...Read Review
The Winter King: A Hawkenlye Mystery
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England in 1211 is a dangerous place in more ways than one. When a baron who was close to King John dies under suspicious ...Read Review
The Girl with the Painted Face
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Set in 1582 in Italy, The Girl with the Painted Face tells the story of the young seamstress, Sofia Genotti – a vulnerable, sensitive and ...Read Review
Turning the Stones
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In 18th-century Cheshire, Em Smith, a foundling, was fostered by the Waterland family, first as a playmate and later as a lady’s ...Read Review
