HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)

Citadel

By Kate Mosse - Published 2013Published 2014

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Kate Mosse completes her trilogy of novels set in and around Carcassonne with Citadel, a story that takes place largely in World War ...Read Review

The Meaning of Names

By Karen Gettert Shoemaker - Published 2014

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Germans began flocking to Nebraska in the mid-1800s, pushed out of Germany by revolution and drawn by cheap farmland. Their tightly knit ...Read Review

The Cairo Codex

By Linda Lambert - Published 2013

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This novel is two stories in one, with the main narrative set during the last days of Mubarak’s Egypt. Justine Jenner, a ...Read Review

The Case of the Pistol-Packing Widows

By Caroline Lawrence - Published 2014

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Children/Young AdultMystery/CrimeWestern

Nevada Territory, U.S.A., 1862. In this, the third P. K. Pinkerton mystery, our hero, age 12, is hired by a Chinese courtesan, Opal ...Read Review

God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

By Jessie Childs - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

This book follows the history of England’s Catholics between the accession of Elizabeth I and the Gunpowder Plot, through the lives of ...Read Review

The Bride Insists

By Jane Ashford - Published 2014

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Romance

Jane Ashford, author of Once Again a Bride, delivers a charming historical romance set in Regency England.  Governess Clare Greenough unexpectedly finds out ...Read Review

A Bride for Keeps

By Melissa Jagears - Published 2013

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InspirationalRomanceWestern

Julia Lockwood arrives in 1876 Kansas, a mail-order bride arrangement promoted by Everett Cline’s neighbor, Rachel.  Julia doesn’t know that this is ...Read Review

She’s Leaving Home

By William Shaw - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

Although primarily a police procedural, this novel, set in 1968, successfully portrays a rapidly changing British culture. A young woman’s body is found ...Read Review

Murder on the Home Front

By Molly Lefebure - Published 2013Published 2014

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Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

First published in 1955 as Evidence for the Crown, Murder on the Home Front is the World War II memoir of Molly Lefebure, a ...Read Review

From the Charred Remains

By Susanna Calkins - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

This is the second in the Lucy Campion mystery series (after A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate). Former lady’s maid Lucy is ...Read Review