HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Murder on the Breakers
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Emma Cross, a society reporter and poorer Vanderbilt relation, borders on respectability with her re-styled gowns and a summer cottage inherited from a ...Read Review
The Moon Field
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This is a book about Britain in the Great War, and George, junior postman, his pranks as a youth, his infatuation and his ...Read Review
In the Wolf’s Mouth
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Set mostly in the battlegrounds of North Africa and Italy in the Second World War, this is a poetic and beautifully observed novel. ...Read Review
The Fallen Snow
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When Joshua Hunter returns from the Great War to Appalachian Virginia in 1918, he’s surly to all his loved ones, including the fiancé...Read Review
In the Night of Time
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We meet Ignacio Abel, a prominent Spanish architect, at Penn Station in 1936 as he flees from Madrid, where he was in danger from ...Read Review
The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
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1968 finds Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski hiding out as a clerk in the basement of a San Francisco welfare office. Secure in his clandestine sanctuary, ...Read Review
A Fall of Marigolds
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Clara Wood and Taryn Michaels are both survivors, the former of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the latter of the September 2001 World Trade ...Read Review
The Beatles
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
This is the story of the Beatles’ decade of fame, 1960 to 1970, but it is much more than that. It’s also the story ...Read Review
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
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This fascinating history of the waning years of the “White Raj” of Sarawak, which lies just south of Brunei on the island of ...Read Review
The Devil’s Workshop
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The third in the Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series finds Inspector Walter Day investigating an implausible prison escape: a train has been ...Read Review
