HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
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Sarah Bakewell’s latest non-fiction book, At the Existentialist Café, documents her passion for existentialism through linked biographies of the movements’ King and ...Read Review
Stolen Horses
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Ranger Ballard finds two charred bodies in a burned-out ramshackle house on the Texas Panhandle. The Foley brother and sister lived in that ...Read Review
Heir to the Duke: The Duke’s Sons
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The first installment in Ashford’s new series (Duke’s Sons) is sure to please lovers of the Regency era. We are introduced ...Read Review
Away in a Manger: A Molly Murphy Mystery
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Molly Murphy Sullivan is back for this Christmas installment of the popular mystery series. It’s 1905 New York City, and Molly and her ...Read Review
Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel
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Ian Fleming wrote only fourteen Bond novels, but new titles continue to be published, no doubt in part due to the enormous success ...Read Review
44 Hours or Strike!
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In 1931, during the Great Depression, fourteen-year-old Sophie Abramson and her sixteen-year-old sister, Rose, are garment workers who join the Toronto Dressmakers’ Strike, supported ...Read Review
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me
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This is both a charming and very well-written group biography, as well as a fresh examination of those eccentric, privileged and wealthy characters ...Read Review
Daughter of Sand and Stone
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At seventeen, Zenobia bat-Zabbai of 3rd-century Palmyra is old enough to wed, but none of the prospective suitors meets her approval. She is ...Read Review
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver follows the life and career of Jacques Coeur, a highly successful French merchant who lived during the reign of King Charles VII ...Read Review
The Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a Time of War
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The Golden Lion takes place in the last half of the 17th century, in the 30 years between Smith’s earlier novel Birds of ...Read Review
