HNR Issue 81 (August 2017)
Alabaster
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Alabaster is the retelling of the biblical story of Mariam (Mary), sister to Marta (Martha) and Eleazar (Lazarus). She is the woman who ...Read Review
Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer
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It is the height of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, a celebrated golden age. The seven-year-old Emilia Bassano is sent away from her mother ...Read Review
A More Perfect Union
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Johnny Watkins and his mother arrive in America from Barbados. While they set their hopes high, there is a constant shadow casting fear ...Read Review
Secret Sisters
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Illinois, 1881: Beth Carrington is studying to become a doctor, but as the sole female student in the physicians’ program, she is constantly being ...Read Review
Mansfield Parsonage
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This novel is essentially a rewrite of Jane Austen’s classic novel Mansfield Park. It opens with the arrival from London of adult ...Read Review
Perish from the Earth
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In 1837, a young Abraham Lincoln rides the circuit to dispense justice to remote areas of Illinois while his friend and roommate, Joshua Speed, ...Read Review
To the Farthest Shores
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During the Spanish-American War, nurse Jenny Bennett had her heart broken by Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher, who had promised her marriage only to leave ...Read Review
A Trail of Crumbs
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A Trail of Crumbs takes place where A Cup of Dust left off. Young Pearl Spence is recovering from a traumatic incident in ...Read Review
The Good Thief
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Early on an April morning in 1917, the tortured body of Franciscan postulate Thomas Whelan lies in the vegetable garden behind his mission. The ...Read Review
The Long Drop
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In the mid-1950s, Glasgow police discover a horrid triple murder: three women, brutally slain. The women, the wife, daughter, and sister-in-law of ...Read Review
