HNR Issue 80 (May 2017)
Bachelor Girl
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The time frame of this novel spans 21 years from 1918 to 1939. The plot revolves around Jacob Ruppert, a real person, owner of the Ruppert ...Read Review
The House of Names
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In his eleventh novel, Tóibín retells the myth of the House of Atreus and Queen Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband, Agamemnon, ...Read Review
Viper’s Blood: Master of War
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Viper’s Blood is the fourth book in David Gilman’s Master of War series continuing the saga of the Hundred Years’ War ...Read Review
The Boy Who Wanted Wings
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In the tradition of Eric Kelley’s The Trumpeter of Krakow, James Conroyd Martin’s novel The Boy Who Wanted Wings tells the ...Read Review
The Women of Baker Street: A Mrs Hudson and Mary Watson Investigation
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The Women of Baker Street is an entertaining historical thriller set in Victorian London. It is based on the Arthur Conan Doyle characters ...Read Review
A Daughter’s Courage
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Renita D’Silva takes the popular parallel-narratives format to a new level with her engrossing saga intertwining four women’s stories. They all ...Read Review
The Essex Serpent
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The 2016 UK edition of The Essex Serpent received widespread acclaim, and the novel is sure to garner an enthusiastic U.S. audience as ...Read Review
The Yankee Years: Books 1-3
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These novellas (The Shadow Ally, Acts of Sabotage, Keeping Her Pledge) introduce Ruth Corey, a young woman in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in 1941, ...Read Review
Miss Burma
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Miss Burma opens with an attention-grabbing prologue that sees fifteen-year-old Louisa, a young woman of mixed racial heritage, crowned in her country’s ...Read Review
War, Spies, and Bobby Sox
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A loosely connected pair of long stories and one short one set in WWII Chicago and the Midwest, War, Spies, and Bobby Sox ...Read Review
