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
A.D. 33
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Maviah, Queen of a Bedouin tribe, is also known as Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah’s love, Judah, is imprisoned by Kahil, a ...Read Review
Carlisle: Journey to the White Clouds
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It is 1858, and Paul and Anna Steele and their family of five are living in a sod house near the town of Carlisle ...Read Review
A Thousand Falling Crows
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The summer of 1933 comes hard to the scorched plains of north Texas. Widowed Ranger Sonny Burton must retire after losing his right arm ...Read Review
A Woman Loved
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Should historical fiction include fiction in which a researcher looks back at the past, in this case the career of Catherine the Great? ...Read Review
Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses
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Graham reveals the lives of women who ruled kingdoms, formed policy, and held power not from the throne, but from the bedroom. Beginning ...Read Review
24 Hours at Agincourt: 25 October, 1415
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Although I am fascinated by medieval history, I was not expecting to enjoy reading Michael Jones’ detailed book as much as I did. ...Read Review
Warriors of the Storm
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The ninth entry in Cornwell’s Saxon Tales brings us yet another glorious tale of Uhtred, warrior extraordinaire. Though there is a fragile ...Read Review
Fair Helen
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In the late 16th century, Harry Langdon returns home to the Scottish Borders to aid Adam Fleming, his distressed best friend. Adam is ...Read Review