HNR Issue 77 (August 2016)
The Tea Planter’s Bride: India Tea Series, Book 2
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Sophie Logan only remembers the Indian tea plantation of her childhood through snippets of hazy memories. When she was six years old, her ...Read Review
The Secret Book of Kings
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This is the English translation of the latest Biblical fiction offering by a popular Israeli author. Set in the tumultuous Davidic period, young ...Read Review
The Service of the Dead
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Candace Robb re-emerges! As a fan of her Owen Archer mysteries, I anxiously awaited the beginning of this new series starring a young ...Read Review
The Rivals of Versailles
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The Rivals of Versailles, the second book in the Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, tells the story of King Louis XV’s most powerful ...Read Review
Bride of a Distant Isle
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Hampshire, 1851: Annabel Ashton visits her cousin Edward over the summer at the family home. The illegitimate child of an insane mother, Annabel has ...Read Review
Edenland
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Soon after war breaks out between the North and the South, Bledsoe, an escaped slave from the Our Joy plantation, meets Alice, an ...Read Review
The Strawberry Girl
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It’s summer 1893, and the Norwegian fishing village of Asgardstrand is swelled by an influx of well-to-do guests and bohemian artists from the ...Read Review
Eden Gardens
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This is the story of three women living in Calcutta in the 1940s – Barbara Brooks (Mam), her daughter Maisy and her ayah Pushpa. ...Read Review
The Memory of Us
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England, 1961. The suicide attempt of a lonely midwife is interrupted by a boy whose mother has gone into premature labor. When the midwife ...Read Review
Death on the Sapphire: A Lady Frances Ffolkes Mystery
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Lady Frances Ffolkes is an extremely busy woman. Along with chairing the Women’s Political Equality movement, meetings with the Ladies’ Educational Improvement ...Read Review