HNR Issue 72 (May 2015)
House of Thieves
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John Cross is a successful architect working in New York in 1886. He is married, although not happily, and has three children the eldest ...Read Review
Golden Earrings
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In 1970s Paris, a dejected ballet dancer, Paloma, is living with her grandmother, Mamie, in a townhouse-cum-ballet school. One morning she is confronted ...Read Review
Arctic Shadow
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
In 1909, the All Alaska Sweepstakes dog race has ended in defeat for 14-year- old Anya, a Siberian girl from Chukchi, who arrived in ...Read Review
In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal
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In 1844, a fourteen-year-old orphan girl dances in the “house of fairies” in Lucknow, Awadh, India. Her beauty and poetic abilities catch the eye ...Read Review
Daughter of the Regiment
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Maggie Malone is left behind as her two brothers join the Missouri Irish Brigade, of the Union Army, as the Civil War begins. ...Read Review
Death Comes to the Ballet Russes
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Theatrical murder onstage turns into the real thing as, after the performance, a young performer, Taneyev, is found dead backstage, stabbed through the ...Read Review
Shame and the Captives
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In August 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific is winding down. In Australia, prison camps house enemy combatants. One of the camps, ...Read Review
Traitor’s Gate
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After Saba Hassouneh, a young Palestinian girl who is traumatized by the murder of her family, takes up with a legendary Bedouin freedom ...Read Review
Those Measureless Fields
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Laurence Greene is gassed at Ypres, but does not die until ten years later. This is a timely reminder that the effects of ...Read Review
The Summer of Broken Stories
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When we think of the 1950s, we see a time when children had a freedom and innocence they lack today. Mark is an ...Read Review