HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Black Rock
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In 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. In May of 1821 he died there. Black Rock ...Read Review
An Untamed Heart
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In 1878 Valdres, Norway, twenty-year-old Ingeborg, unlike her mor, is not concerned about still being single. Although she has received some offers, she prefers ...Read Review
The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel
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It’s 1950s California, and P.I. Philip Marlowe sits staring at a silent telephone in a quiet room, empty of eager clients. ...Read Review
Long Man
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This novel takes place in the river valley town of Yuneetah, Tennessee in 1936, as a young couple faces three days of terror when ...Read Review
Moryak
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The Russian Revolution takes up a large portion of the novel it is also about the plight of Soviet Jews and the anti-Semitism ...Read Review
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
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Even the best photograph is no more than an instant in time. For Louisianne “Lou” Villars, the photograph that gives the novel its ...Read Review
The Death of Lucy Kyte
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Upson’s 5th addition to her excellent Josephine Tey series has a deeper, more descriptive tone than earlier books and an unconventional mystery. ...Read Review
Dominion
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With Dominion, acclaimed novelist C.J. Sansom has added yet another field of novel writing to his already impressive repertoire. Having established himself ...Read Review
Prisoner 88
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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
