HNR Issue 72 (May 2015)
The Creole Princess
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Mobile, Alabama, 1776. Young Creole beauty Lyse Lanier meets handsome, foppish, Rafe Gonzalez. Rafe is Spanish, at a time when Spain’s political position ...Read Review
Flood of Fire
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The adjective which springs most readily to mind on reading this book is ‘vast’ – or perhaps I should spell it V – A – S – ...Read Review
On Cimarron
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Kansas, 1860, is the setting for this saga of two families – one white and one Kiowa Indian. The Cimarron serves as a physical boundary ...Read Review
Bodies of Light
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Bodies of Light is the story of a middle-class family in Victorian Manchester. Ally is the daughter and granddaughter of strong, idealistic women ...Read Review
Blackwell’s Homecoming
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This is the final chapter in the tale of Captain James Blackwell, of the Royal Navy, and his family, which includes his wife ...Read Review
The Foundling’s War
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The Foundling’s War takes up the tale of Jean Arnaud, the hero of The Foundling Boy. The story opens in 1940, just as ...Read Review
The Language of the Dead
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An old man is found slain under a tree, crows pecking at his eyes. The ritual slaying of Will Blackwood echoes the killing ...Read Review
The Jazz Palace
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Chicago in the early 20th century was not an easy place for immigrants or blacks, but these are the stories told in The ...Read Review
Under the Same Blue Sky
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As WWI storms across Europe, Hazel Renner’s Pennsylvania family becomes a dreaded “hyphen” – shunned in the place they’ve called home simply ...Read Review
Treachery in Tibet
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At the start of the 20th century, the British Viceroy in India dispatches a mission into Tibet, aiming for Lhasa and negotiations leading ...Read Review