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HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

By Sarah Bakewell - Published 2016

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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

By Bill Brooks - Published 2016

Genres:

Western

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

Forbidden

By Beverly Jenkins - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance Western

Virginia City, Nevada, 1870. Rhine Fontaine, a former Union Cavalry officer, operates an unusual saloon that admits blacks. Handsome Rhine, a former slave from ...Read Review

Dark Harvest: Seasons of War, Book 2

By Amy Myers - Published 2015

Genres:

Saga

Dark Harvest, the second book in a quartet exploring life in a small Sussex town during the Great War, takes place over the ...Read Review

British Bulldog: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery

By Sara Sheridan - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

British Bulldog is the fourth novel in Sara Sheridan’s mystery series. I hadn’t read any of the previous novels, but it ...Read Review

American Ace

By Marilyn Nelson - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Connor has a comfortable place in his Italian-American family. He works at the family restaurant and spends weekends practicing K-turns with his ...Read Review

Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant

By Tracy Borman - Published 2014 Published 2015

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Nonfiction

Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels have sparked a renewed interest in Thomas Cromwell, a man best known for engineering Anne Boleyn’s fall. ...Read Review

The Abbess of Whitby

By Jill Dalladay - Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Like all Oxford history students of my generation, I had to start my course by studying Bede’s History of the English Church ...Read Review

A Prisoner in Malta

By Phillip Depoy - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England, 1583: Brilliant young Christopher Marlowe is recruited by his friend Dr. Lopez and Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster, Walsingham, for a secret and important ...Read Review