HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)

Sedition

By Katharine Grant - Published 2014

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As a fan of K.M. Grant’s historical fiction for children, I was eager to read her adult debut. Set in London ...Read Review

Silent We Stood

By Henry Chappell - Published 2013

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This novel is based on a true event: a fire occurring in Dallas, Texas in July 1860 in which three slaves were accused of ...Read Review

47 Sorrows

By Janet Kellough - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

A mysterious drowning opens this third installment of Kellough’s Thaddeus Lewis Mysteries as four children discover a disfigured victim washed up on ...Read Review

Fatal Enquiry

By Will Thomas - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

With Fatal Enquiry, Will Thomas brings us a sixth entry in the suspenseful Barker & Llewelyn series set in the streets and back ...Read Review

The Lambs

By Peter James Cottrell - Published 2014

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Military

Dublin, September 1914. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Flynn hates his job, which he finds dull and boring. Along with a group of his friends, and desperate ...Read Review

Clever Girl

By Tessa Hadley - Published 2014

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A girl on the brink of young adulthood. A young woman on the edge of maturity, unsure of whether, or how, to take ...Read Review

Once We Had a Country

By Robert McGill - Published 2013

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Set in 1972, Canadian author Robert McGill’s latest novel, Once We Had A Country, might just sneak into the definition of ‘historic fiction’ (...Read Review

City of Jasmine

By Deanna Raybourn - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

Deanna Raybourn’s latest novel, City of Jasmine, is set in the Middle East shortly after the end of the First World War. ...Read Review

The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band

By Frances Washburn - Published 2014

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The summer of 1969 on the Pine Ridge Reservation is the setting for this rollicking chronicle of young waitress, band singer and lost soul ...Read Review

Netherworld

By Lisa Morton - Published 2014

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Historical Fantasy

This is the first in an anticipated series about Lady Diana Furnaval, who comes to believe in the supernatural after her fiancé, William, ...Read Review