HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Til the Well Runs Dry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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