HNR Issue 72 (May 2015)
The Chateau on the Lake
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The date is 1792, and the French Revolution is at its height. Madeleine Moreau has lived a sheltered life teaching at her parents’ Academy ...Read Review
Beyond All Dreams
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An inaccuracy in the historical record compels librarian Anna O’Brien to question the navy’s investigation into the loss of her father’...Read Review
The Winter Family
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August Winter is the leader of a hardened band of killers, men he picked up during his service in the Union army and ...Read Review
Cut from Strong Cloth
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Nineteen-year-old Ellen Canavan and her first-generation Irish-American family arrived in Philadelphia, trying to make a successful business in the textile industry. She is ...Read Review
Dunaway’s Crossing
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In 1918, Savannah, Georgia is emerging from shock as the Great War grinds to a close. Bea Dot has just married Ben Ferguson and ...Read Review
A Common Virtue
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Paul Jackson is an eighteen-year-old Marine who finds himself at the wrong end of a firefight at the Duc Lo Firebase in Vietnam. ...Read Review
Tangled Roots
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Georgia in 1906 is not a good place for Anna Benson and Nessie Jameson to be best friends, for Nessie is black, and Anna ...Read Review
The Hourglass Factory
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My mother always told me that it was my duty to vote, and not just a civic duty: “Women suffered so you could ...Read Review
The Bookseller
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The Bookseller is advertised as reminiscent of the movie Sliding Doors, and the comparison is apt. Both explore how one brief moment can ...Read Review
The Mapmaker’s Children
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This story takes place (most of the time) in New Charlestown, West Virginia during two different centuries tied together by a vintage doll’...Read Review