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HNR Issue 69 (August 2014)

The Pelican Bride (Gulf Coast Chronicles Book #1): A Novel

By Beth White - Published 2014 Published 2014-04-15

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It is an age of exploration where men, out of greed or naked courage, fought for their own destinies and their women helped ...Read Review

Vintner’s Daughter

By Kristen Harnisch - Published 2014 Published 2014-08-05

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Saga

Harnisch’s satisfying first novel draws readers into two glorious locations, France’s Loire Valley and California’s Napa Valley, with an intermediary ...Read Review

Love’s Sweet Beginning (Sisters at Heart Book #3): A Novel: Volume 3

By Ann Shorey - Published 2014 Published 2014-02-04

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Inspirational Romance

1868 Missouri: Cassie Haddon grew up being waited on by servants, but since the war ended that way of life, she has no training ...Read Review

Thornbrook Park

By Sherri Browning - Published 2014 Published 2014-06-03

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Romance

Eve Kendal, a 25-year-old widow who deeply loved her husband, has returned to England after living in India for six years. The mysterious ...Read Review

Edge of Eternity

By Ken Follett - Published 2014

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Epic

The Century Trilogy concludes with this historical novel that captures the essence of historical events from 1961 to 2008. It is thrilling in its evocation ...Read Review

Dangerous Decisions

By Margaret Kaine - Published 2013

Genres:

Romance

This novel opens in 1905 with Helena Standish embarking on her London coming-out season. Oliver Faraday, who Helena meets at a Grosvenor House ball, ...Read Review

All Things Hidden

By Kimberley Woodhouse - By Tracie Peterson - Published 2014

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Inspirational Romance

Gwyn Hillerman is worried. Working as a nurse in her father’s Alaskan medical practice, Gwyn has always taken comfort in her peaceful ...Read Review

The Care and Management of Lies

By Jacqueline Winspear - Published 2014

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At the outbreak of WW1, the lifelong friendship between two women is under strain. Kezia has given up teaching to marry Thea’s ...Read Review

This Most Amazing

By Jenny Benjamin - Published 2013

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Time-slip

Dahlia Conti, an Italian-American poet and academic in modern-day Milwaukee, falls in love with an artist, Jonas. Her story is spliced with that ...Read Review

Remembrance

By Theresa Breslin - Published 2014

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Children/Young Adult

1915. Charlotte Armstrong-Barnes, rising sixteen, longs to do something useful for the war effort, like nursing, but her genteel mother is horrified at the ...Read Review