HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
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Even the best photograph is no more than an instant in time. For Louisianne “Lou” Villars, the photograph that gives the novel its ...Read Review
The Death of Lucy Kyte
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Upson’s 5th addition to her excellent Josephine Tey series has a deeper, more descriptive tone than earlier books and an unconventional mystery. ...Read Review
Dominion
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With Dominion, acclaimed novelist C.J. Sansom has added yet another field of novel writing to his already impressive repertoire. Having established himself ...Read Review
Prisoner 88
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Leah Pileggi’s Prisoner 88 is a fictional account of the real-life imprisonment of ten-year-old Jake Oliver Evans in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary in 1885. ...Read Review
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
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In the 1830s the world was enamored with science and the new inventions, technologies, discoveries (real and fraudulent) that appeared daily. No science ...Read Review
The Dancing Master
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Alec Valcourt, a dancing master by trade, finds himself and his family at the mercy of his uncle’s generosity in the village ...Read Review
The Homesman
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Anyone who imagines that a homesteader’s life on America’s Great Plains was all “Little House on the Prairie” hasn’t tried ...Read Review
The Lost Prince
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This terrific novel was first published in 1915 and has all the hallmarks of fiction written before WW1: beauty of expression, pace, adventure and, ...Read Review
Dark Invasion
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Though the United States remained neutral early in World War I, they sent munitions and supplies to fortify the Allies. The Germans responded ...Read Review
The Thief
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It’s the time of the greatest prophet, the Messiah, awaited by the Jewish people of Jerusalem. It’s also the time of ...Read Review
