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HNR Issue 78 (November 2016)

Between Two Fires

By Mark Noce - Published 2016

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Wales, 597 AD. The marriage of 16-year-old Lady Branwen, the only legitimate child of Vortigern, the King of Dyfed, to Morgan, the King of ...Read Review

The Course of Fortune, Volumes 1, 2, and 3

By Tony Rothman - Published 2016

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Adventure Epic

Francisco de Barai, young and full of vigor, must flee his native Seville under false charges. What follows is a 15-year adventure across ...Read Review

Someone to Love

By Mary Balogh - Published 2016

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Romance

When the Countess of Riverdale instructs her solicitor to find the illegitimate daughter whom her late husband has been supporting in an orphanage ...Read Review

The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

By James L. Haley - Published 2016

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Adventure Nautical

An award-winning historian who also writes fiction can be expected to deliver excellence, and Haley doesn’t disappoint. In reply to currently popular ...Read Review

The Last Days of Night

By Graham Moore - Published 2016

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One billion dollars. That’s the value of electric light in 1888. Or, that’s the staggering sum for which Thomas Edison is suing ...Read Review

Hell Bay

By Will Thomas - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Together for the 8th time, Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, embark on another case. This time, they are called to provide ...Read Review

The House of Dreams

By Kate Lord Brown - Published 2016

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In the early 1940s, American journalist Varian Fry was a part of a group of internationals with a mission of helping hand-picked refugee ...Read Review

The Book of Beloved

By Carolyn Haines - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Carolyn Haines is off to a great start with The Book of Beloved, the first book in her new series, Pluto’s Snitch. ...Read Review

The Great Swindle

By Frank Wynne (trans.) - By Pierre Lemaitre - Published 2016

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The story begins with an act of dreadful treachery. In early November 1918, and the final days of The Great War, Albert Maillard and É...Read Review

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

By John Preston - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Mystery/Crime

The title precisely describes this book: an account of events leading up to the murder trial of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe. His ...Read Review

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