HNR Issue 76 (May 2016)
Miriam
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Miriam is the sister of Moses. She watched her infant brother be rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter, and later wept when he escaped ...Read Review
The Medicus Codex
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When Aaron, a Galilean Jew, leaves his homeland for Rome, he knows he aims high in seeking to become a student of Galen, ...Read Review
Blood and Roses
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Beginning at the start of the Wars of the Roses, Blood and Roses focuses on and is in part narrated by Margaret of ...Read Review
The Midwife and the Assassin: A Midwife Mystery
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Upon hearing of her nephew’s incarceration in the Tower, Lady Bridget Hodgson departs post-haste for London from her home in the English ...Read Review
I Thee Wed
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The fourth in The Wicked Worthingtons Series, set in Regency London, describes how Orion sets out to establish his career as a successful ...Read Review
Death Descends on Saturn Villa: The Gower Street Detective, Book 3
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Another excellent installment in the Gower Street Detective mystery series! In this outing, the intrepid March Middleton receives a dinner invitation from the ...Read Review
On A Desert Shore
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Marina Garrod, a mixed-race girl, is the daughter of Joanna, a slave woman who was the mistress of Hugo Garrod, a sugar planter ...Read Review
The Colours of Love
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The story begins in 1923. A ship has been driven onto rocks and the survivors taken to an inn. Two women are about to ...Read Review
A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl
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Precocious Pearl Spence is the narrator of this enjoyable novel set in the harsh Oklahoma prairies in 1934, an area that was susceptible to ...Read Review
The Translation of Love
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This touching and thought-provoking debut novel follows the storylines of several Japanese, Japanese-American, and Japanese-Canadian characters living – and sometimes barely surviving – in Japan ...Read Review