HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)

Til the Well Runs Dry

By Lauren Francis-Sharma - Published 2014

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Secrets abound in Francis-Sharma’s sparkling debut novel. Marcia Garcia – pronounced so her first and last names rhyme – is a smart and sassy ...Read Review

The Black Snow

By Paul Lynch - Published 2014

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Literary

In rural Ireland, in the spring of 1945, with the war in Europe a distant echo barely disturbing the steady routine of farming life, ...Read Review

Gertrude

By Hassan Najmi - By Roger Allen (trans.) - Published 2013

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Biographical FictionLiterary

Hassan Najmi, a renowned Moroccan author and poet, presents in Gertrude an unusual novel about the famous American Gertrude Stein. Najmi’s narrator ...Read Review

Bellagrand

By Paullina Simons - Published 2014

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Saga

Paullina Simons has returned in fine form! The love story of Alexander’s parents is continued from Children of Liberty and also serves ...Read Review

No Country

By Kalyan Ray - Published 2014

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EpicSaga

Brendan and Padraig, friends since childhood, know little of the world beyond their small village on the coast of Western Ireland. Brendan is ...Read Review

Canyon of Danger

By Susan K. Marlow - Published 2013

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AdventureChildren/Young AdultWestern

Sheriff Coulter has to escort a prisoner to Sacramento. He leaves his only son in charge of the family ranch for a few ...Read Review

The Broken Road

By Patrick Leigh Fermor - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

Devotees of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s books about his 1933-34 walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople waited for decades for a ...Read Review

Confessions of a Royal Bridegroom

By Vanessa Kelly - Published 2014

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Romance

Griffin Steele, the illegitimate and unacknowledged son of a royal duke, has created for himself a life of comfort and wealth. His one ...Read Review

Across the Cheyenne River

By John D. Nesbitt - Published 2014

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Western

In 1890s Wyoming, Russell Archer and a young man he meets on the trail arrive at the ranch of Lidge Mercer. They are ...Read Review

Last Train to Paris

By Michele Zackheim - Published 2014

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In hindsight, we know that no sane person, Jewish or otherwise, would try to ride it out in pre-war Paris and Berlin. But ...Read Review