HNR Issue 80 (May 2017)

My Name Is Victoria

By Lucy Worsley - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

1820s. Princess Victoria is being brought up in almost total isolation in Kensington Palace. Her mother is under the thumb of Sir John ...Read Review

Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton

By Magdalen King-Hall - Published 2016

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Originally published in 1944, the Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton follows the career of Barbara Skelton, a 17th-century noblewoman who, bored ...Read Review

An Eye for an Eye: The Tales of Zebadiah Creed, Book One

By Mark C. Jackson - Published 2017

Genres:

Western

Fur trappers Zebadiah Creed and his brother Jonathan are traveling the lower Missouri River in the late summer of 1835. One evening while camping, ...Read Review

An Address in Amsterdam

By Mary Dingee Fillmore - Published 2016

Genres:

The story follows Rachel Klein, a young Jewish woman who hides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during WW2 and also works ...Read Review

So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot

By Morgan Ring - Published 2017

Genres:

Nonfiction

Margaret Douglas was Henry VIII’s niece. At age fifteen, he invited her to his Christmas court. She became a lady in waiting ...Read Review