HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
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Lillian Dunkle, celebrated matriarch of the ice cream business, recounts her life from penniless immigrant to food tycoon. Because it is written as ...Read Review
Light of the Diddicoy
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The first installment of Eamon Loingsigh’s Auld Irishtown trilogy, Light of the Diddicoy illuminates the dark underbelly of Brooklyn’s Irish roots ...Read Review
The Man Who Loved Dogs
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Three men who loved dogs play major roles in this novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky. A Cuban veterinary magazine editor meets ...Read Review
Silence for the Dead
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In 1919, young Kitty Weeks is fleeing her past and her abusive father. Forging her credentials, she secures a nursing position at Portis House, ...Read Review
The Collector of Dying Breaths
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Set in late 16th-century and present-day France, The Collector of Dying Breaths continues the tale of mythologist Jac L’Etoile, whose beloved brother, ...Read Review
The Middle of Nowhere
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Comity Pinny’s mother dies of a snake bite in the remote Australian outback where her father runs the telegraph station in Kinkindele. ...Read Review
Edwardian Fashion
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Edwardian Fashion, a slim book that traverses the female and male fashions from roughly 1900-1915, provides a good deal of information despite its ...Read Review
For Love of Glory: The Emma Hamilton Story
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Leslie Fish takes on the inevitable task of completing Bradda Field’s Bride of Glory, which ended begging for a sequel that never ...Read Review
A Talent for Trouble
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This inspirational romance takes place in New York City in 1881. Felicia Murdock has spent the last four years suppressing her natural taste for ...Read Review
The Vicar’s Wife
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When New Yorker Jane Hatton’s British husband prompts their relocation to a small village on the Cumbrian coast of England, only her ...Read Review
