HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Ember Island
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Nina Jones, the current-day protagonist of Ember Island, is a bestselling author with a shameful secret and a broken heart. She’s trying ...Read Review
Temple Boys
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AD 33. Flea is the runt of the Temple Boys gang who thieve for a living in Jerusalem, a city ruled with a heavy ...Read Review
Lizzy Bennet’s Diary
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Lizzy Bennet’s Diary is a charming, illustrated re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice in diary form. This is not a fan-lit sequel, nor ...Read Review
Murder on High Holborn
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In 1665, the restored monarchy is still in its infancy and not unanimously popular. Rebellious groups and sects abound, including the Northern Plot. This ...Read Review
Second Summer of War
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In her sequel to Come Looking for Me, Cooper returns to the War of 1812 and the story of Princess Emily, fictional granddaughter of ...Read Review
The Kept Girl
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Kim Cooper’s The Kept Girl is based on the 1920s Los Angeles Blackburn cult, an odd group that scandalized L.A. with ...Read Review
The Galleon (Carey Novels)
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1583. Young Robert Penderyn is the penniless nephew of a sour miserly uncle. When he kills a man in a duel forced upon him, ...Read Review
The Girls of Atomic City
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With a personal interest in this topic (my grandfather worked at Oak Ridge until his retirement in the mid 1960s), I was eager ...Read Review
Hannibal: Clouds of War
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In 213 AD, Rome is at war with Carthage, and the town of Syracuse in Sicily is under siege. Outside the walls is Quintus, ...Read Review
The Ten Thousand Things
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Wang Meng is a low-level government worker in 14th-century China. A gifted painter who is devoted to his art, Wang becomes entangled in ...Read Review
