HNR Issue 72 (May 2015)
Liar’s Bench
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On Mudas Summer’s 17th birthday, her cherished mother, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of her home. Did she kill herself? ...Read Review
The Earth is Singing
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1940, Riga, Latvia. Fifteen-year-old Hanna Michelson is training to be a ballet dancer and she has a boyfriend, the handsome Uldis. Life was good – ...Read Review
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
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Thomas Asbridge’s highly readable book on the life of the medieval knight, William Marshal, is effectively aimed at both lay and academic ...Read Review
A Love Most Dangerous
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Alice Petherton, a 17-year-old maid of honor to Queen Jane, is a penniless orphan who must rely on her own beauty and wit ...Read Review
Once More Into the Breech
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Sheriff Ben Stillman, of the northern Montana Territory, still carries a bullet in his back from a near-fatal shooting several years earlier. One ...Read Review
West
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This novel is mostly set in a West Berlin transit hostel in the late 1970s. The inmates, a motley group, have sought asylum ...Read Review
1815: Regency Britain in the Age of Waterloo
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1815 was commissioned by the publishers as part of their ‘A Year in History’ series, Stephen Bates having already contributed an earlier book covering 1846. ...Read Review
America and WWI: A Traveler’s Guide
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The 2014 centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the beginning of World War I has been marked by ceremony ...Read Review
The Tongues of Men or Angels
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In this story of Jesus and the rise of Christianity, miracles have down-to-earth explanations and the realities of Roman-occupied Judaea are shown in ...Read Review
Constantinopolis
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In 1452, in the Ottoman city of Edirne, the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmet confers with his trusted general. Mehmet is yearning to prove himself, for ...Read Review
