HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Second Summer of War
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In her sequel to Come Looking for Me, Cooper returns to the War of 1812 and the story of Princess Emily, fictional granddaughter of ...Read Review
The Kept Girl
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Kim Cooper’s The Kept Girl is based on the 1920s Los Angeles Blackburn cult, an odd group that scandalized L.A. with ...Read Review
The Galleon (Carey Novels)
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1583. Young Robert Penderyn is the penniless nephew of a sour miserly uncle. When he kills a man in a duel forced upon him, ...Read Review
The Girls of Atomic City
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With a personal interest in this topic (my grandfather worked at Oak Ridge until his retirement in the mid 1960s), I was eager ...Read Review
Hannibal: Clouds of War
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In 213 AD, Rome is at war with Carthage, and the town of Syracuse in Sicily is under siege. Outside the walls is Quintus, ...Read Review
The Ten Thousand Things
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Wang Meng is a low-level government worker in 14th-century China. A gifted painter who is devoted to his art, Wang becomes entangled in ...Read Review
The Painter’s Apprentice
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On the cusp of England’s Glorious Revolution, a family is drawn into dangerous political events while desperately trying to save their safe-house ...Read Review
An Elegant Solution
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The name “Bernoulli” is as recognizable to mathematicians as “Tudor” is to historians. The Bernoulli brothers, Jacob and Johann, each in turn the ...Read Review
The Three Emperors: An Ethan Gage Adventure
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The Three Emperors is the 7th installment of the Ethan Gage series, and while this was my first encounter with Ethan, it didn’...Read Review
Grist
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Penelope is a “great horse of a girl” who teaches school in late 19th-century Nova Scotia. She has few prospects as far as ...Read Review
