HNR Issue 79 (February 2017)
Pachinko
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An ambitious multigenerational family saga evocative of Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth, Lee’s second novel, Pachinko, is engaging, complex, and ...Read Review
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
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Spanning from WWI to the start of WWII, The Lonely Hearts Hotel is the story of Rose and Pierrot, two orphans who meet ...Read Review
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his ...Read Review
On Sackville Street
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1869. Milandra Carter, a wealthy widow with a mysterious past, arrives in Dublin and instantly raises hackles. She won’t wear mourning, and she ...Read Review
How to Survive in the North
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Written in graphic novel format and based on the true story of Ada Blackjack—an Inuk woman who survived a disastrous expedition in ...Read Review
The Mystery of the Jeweled Moth
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This is a whimsical middle-grade story involving mystery, theft, high society, and even murder, in which four friends attempt to find a missing ...Read Review
Caliburn: Merlin’s Tale
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Over the years, the story of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone has been reworked in every facet of media—books, ...Read Review
My Enemy, My Heart
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The war of 1812 has begun, unbeknownst to the American crew of the Maid of Alexandria. Part of the Baltimore clipper’s crew, Deirdre ...Read Review
Guide Me Home
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Rebekah’s story begins with her hearing and partially seeing a heartbreaking scene in which her father feebly attempts to comfort her mother. ...Read Review
Cloak of Ashes: The Women of Beowulf
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Seventh-century Scandinavia: Freawaru, the daughter of a king and the lover of the renowned warrior Beowulf, is a seer in her own right ...Read Review