HNR Issue 76 (May 2016)
Farming, Fighting and Family: A Memoir of the Second World War
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Based on the diaries and letters of Pamela Street, a young woman coming of age in the late 1930s, this chronicle of the ...Read Review
The Gladiator’s Temptation
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In 100 BC Rome, Fortunada, a golden-haired beauty, and Baro, a gladiator, meet secretly. They are in love and plan to marry. Although Fortunada ...Read Review
The Sword of Attilla: Total War: Rome
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If the first novel in this Total War: Rome series concerned the birth of the Roman Empire, The Sword of Attila describes its ...Read Review
The Spy of Venice
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It is 1585 and England’s spymasters want to forge an alliance with Venice. A mission is arranged, using a group of travelling players ...Read Review
Our Own Country
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1772. Eliza Boylston, daughter of a prosperous merchant and his ambitious wife, is anticipating a 16th birthday surrounded by her loving family. ...Read Review
A Sweet Misfortune
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In Paradise Valley, Montana Territory, 1862, John McIntyre receives a request from a friend asking him to rescue his sister from a dance hall. ...Read Review
The Legend of Russian Bill
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William R. Tettenborn spoke four languages, dressed like Buffalo Bill, and had long curly blond hair like General Custer. He toured with President ...Read Review
The Honeymoon
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In 1880, Marian Evans, better known as George Eliot, married John Walter Cross; she was sixty, and Johnnie, as he was called, was forty. ...Read Review
The Houseguest
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World War II remains in the public consciousness as a certain businessman, currently running for President of the United States, is evoking comparisons ...Read Review
Charlotte
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Charlotte, by French writer David Foenkinos, tells the story of Charlotte Salomon, a young artist passionately in love with her art and willing ...Read Review
