HNR Issue 73 (August 2015)

War Babies

By Annie Murray - Published 2015

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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

By Gerard Woodward - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Mark J Dworkin - Published 2015

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NonfictionWestern

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

By Marc Morris - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

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

By Donald Michael Platt - Published 2015

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Biographical Fiction

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

By Linda Lafferty - Published 2015

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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

By Alan Gold - Published 2015

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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

By W. Michael Farmer - Published 2015

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Western

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

By Cara Luecht - Published 2015

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InspirationalRomance

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

By Ralph Peters - Published 2015

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AdventureMilitary

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