HNR Issue 76 (May 2016)
The Daughters of Palatine Hill
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The Daughters of Palatine Hill tells the story of three powerful women in imperial Rome. Julia, the only child of Emperor Augustus, longs ...Read Review
The Night Wanderer
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In this seventh Aelf Fen mystery, apprentice healer Lassair, an 11th-century young woman from a Fen village, has just returned to Cambridge following ...Read Review
City of Wisdom and Blood / Heretic Dawn
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City of Wisdom and Blood and Heretic Dawn are books two and three of Robert Merle’s Fortunes of France series, which follows ...Read Review
Scarpia
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Best known for Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read reprises his renowned journalistic style in his latest novel. Set in the ...Read Review
Triple Play
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The early game of baseball is played by ranchers on young Tucker Beaver’s ranch, with a fascination as to how to make ...Read Review
Delivering the Truth: A Quaker Midwife Mystery
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In Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1888, Rose Carroll, a 24-year-old Quaker midwife, spends her days attending to expectant mothers and delivering babies. Having experienced an ...Read Review
The Teeth of the Souls
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After the Civil War, young Leighton Shea Morkan inherits the Morkan Quarry outside of Springfield, Missouri. To make a profit, he hires many ...Read Review
Deep Waters
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As always with Robert Hale books, this is splendidly produced with a well-chosen typeface and a pleasure to (be)hold. Setting her novel ...Read Review
The Royal Nanny
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Charlotte Bill begins her journey as an undernurse to the Duke and Duchess of York’s growing brood in the spring of 1897. Installed ...Read Review
Titans
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Texas, 1880. In a dramatic prologue, which sets the stage for Meacham’s third family epic (after Somerset, 2014), a young mother gives away one ...Read Review
