HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

By Sarah Bakewell - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

A.D. 33

By Ted Dekker - Published 2015

Genres:

Inspirational

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

By Wallace J. Swenson - Published 2016

Genres:

Western

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

By Larry D. Sweazy - Published 2016

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

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

By Andrei Makine - By Geoffrey Strachan (trans.) - Published 2015

Genres:

Literary

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

By Ian Graham - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Michael Jones - Published 2015

Genres:

MilitaryNonfiction

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

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2015Published 2016

Genres:

Military

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

By Andrew Greig - Published 2015

Genres:

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

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