HNR Issue 81 (August 2017)
Vichyssoise
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The Vichy government was the collaborationist regime headed by Marechal Petain which was permitted by the Nazis to rule central and southeastern France ...Read Review
All the Best People
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In Vermont in the late 1920s, Solange was a young woman who fell in love, married, and had a baby. Her husband was ...Read Review
Heretics
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In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis arrived in Cuba with 900 Jewish refugees. They boarded hoping for a new life, only to be turned ...Read Review
Flame in the Mist
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Mariko, the daughter of a renowned samurai family in medieval Japan, is totally unlike any of her female counterparts, having an insatiable curiosity, ...Read Review
A Castle in England
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Children/Young AdultShort Stories
For several months in early 2016, researcher and author Jamie Rhodes lived in Scotney Castle in Kent, South-East England. There he walked the grounds, ...Read Review
Naomi’s Hope
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Naomi Schrock and her adopted son, Davey, are newcomers settling into the Amish community in Indiana in 1864. The group is just beginning to ...Read Review
The Body in the Clouds
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In Ashley Hay’s debut novel, The Body in the Clouds (published in the US following The Railwayman’s Wife), she attempts to ...Read Review
Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
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Hogeland’s book is a finely researched entry about a war about which few Americans are aware—the war to eradicate the Native ...Read Review
Raven’s Feast: Hakon’s Saga, Book 2
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Very rarely does one come across a book written about the man remembered as Hakon the Good or Hakon Adalsteinsfostre. As Mr Schumacher ...Read Review
For the Winner: A Novel of Jason and the Argonauts
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Myths are stories that are told and re-told over centuries. Each generation takes the same basic tale but turns it into something relevant ...Read Review