HNR Issue 73 (August 2015)
War Babies
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Set in Birmingham between 1930 and 1946, War Babies is the story of a young woman’s unhappy and difficult childhood during the depths of ...Read Review
Vanishing
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When artist and Lieutenant Kenneth Brill is arrested for painting the countryside, authorities suspect it could be a coded message meant for the ...Read Review
American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Joaquin Murrieta
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In the 1920s, Walter Noble Burns was America’s most popular chronicler of the Old West. His background as a newspaper reporter gave ...Read Review
King John: Treachery, Tyranny & the Road to Magna Carta
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The year 2015 is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, and there has been much renewed interest in King John. A number of new ...Read Review
Bodo the Apostate
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The apostasy alluded to in the title of Donald Michael Platt’s excellent new book Bodo the Apostate occurred, if contemporary accounts can ...Read Review
The Shepherdess of Siena: A Novel of Renaissance Tuscany
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Ostensibly, this is the story of Virginia Tacci, a poor shepherdess who loves horses. But that’s only part of it. It’s ...Read Review
The Pretender’s Lady
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This book spans the second half of the 18th century, beginning in the 1740s, just as Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Scotland for ...Read Review
Killer of Witches
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Killer of Witches begins in November 1865, when hundreds of Mescalero Apache disappear from the New Mexico concentration camp where they’re guarded by “...Read Review
Gathered Waters
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Brianna is an ordinary Swedish wife and mother in her strongly Lutheran country in the late 1800s. The Church is so strong that ...Read Review
Valley of the Shadow
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This is a rip-snortin’, page-turning Civil War novel. Col. Peters does for the Civil War what Bernard Cornwell has done for medieval warfare. ...Read Review