HNR Issue 79 (February 2017)
A Most Magical Girl
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Twelve-year-old Annabel Grey is sent to stay with two great-aunts after her mother unexpectedly leaves home to go travelling. The old women are ...Read Review
Esfir Is Alive
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Esfir Manevich, a pre-teen child, lives in Kobrin (then in Poland, now Belarus) in 1936. When she is bullied in school for being Jewish, ...Read Review
The King Must Die
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‘I cannot keep from putting my hand to what I find about me,’ declares Mary Renault’s hero, Theseus. He is the grandson ...Read Review
Beneath the Golden Veil
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In this inspirational Christian novel set during the 1850s, the Harvard-educated son of a Virginia tobacco plantation owner acts on his abolitionist convictions ...Read Review
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss
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“The Kaiser was chopping logs.” So begins and ends the arc of this fast-paced narrative which takes place in 1940 at Huis Doorn, the ...Read Review
Written in the Ashes
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This epic novel tells the story of Hannah, a Jewish shepherdess who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Alexandria in the late 4...Read Review
The Heretic’s Creed
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In this 14th book of the Ursula Blanchard Elizabethan mysteries, the year is 1577. Ursula is again given a secret assignment from her half-sister, ...Read Review
Pirate Utopia
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In this fantastical alternate history novella, Sterling, better known for his pioneering work in science fiction, imagines what would happen if the artistic/...Read Review
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
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The birth of the Berlin Wall is well-known, and the fall of The Berlin Wall is equally well documented. What hasn’t been ...Read Review
Death at St. Vedast: A Bianca Goddard Mystery
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The latest Bianca Goddard mystery begins with a startling discovery: the corpse of a pregnant woman who fell from the bell tower of ...Read Review