HNR Issue 72 (May 2015)
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
Sustenance: A St. Germain Novel
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Saint-Germain is back! Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has written another fascinating, well- researched novel, this one set in the McCarthy era. Living in Paris ...Read Review
Rugby Rebel
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Thirteen-year-old, rugby-mad Eoin Madden returns to Castlerock boarding school in Dublin to start the new school year. He meets with old friends and ...Read Review
The Crimson Cord: Rahab’s Story
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Rahab’s captivity begins with her marriage to a gambler whose debts can only be paid by selling her into slavery. Her new ...Read Review
Death and the Cyprian Society
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Arabella Beaumont, a celebrated courtesan in Regency London and an erstwhile sleuth, needs funds to renovate and open her “Cyprian Society,” a club ...Read Review
Motherland
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1978 is not long ago, but the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is already history, so I have accepted this as an historical novel. ...Read Review
The Gauntlet
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In present-day Wales, Peter Staunton and his friend, Gwyn Evans, stumble across a large medieval gauntlet while lost in the mist in the ...Read Review
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love, and Betrayal
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This is the second book by Robert Sackville-West (aka Lord Sackville) about his family and the sprawling house (far too small a word ...Read Review