HNR Issue 82 (November 2017)
No Saints in Kansas
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, brutal murders are discovered in a farmhouse by two teenagers. The respected Clutter family, husband, ...Read Review
Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
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The murder-suicide at Mayerling was an event that ripped a family, an empire, and eventually the entire world apart. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose ...Read Review
Too Scot to Handle
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When a story begins with “it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a great fortune,” it portends ...Read Review
Mr. Campion’s Abdication
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In 1970, Albert Campion has been invited to serve as a consultant to an Italian film producer, Donna Daniela-Petraglia, at Heronhoe Hall in Pontisbright ...Read Review
Sink or Swim: A Novel of WWII
Genres:
Children/Young AdultMilitaryNautical
Fishing off the North Carolina coast is routine for twelve-year-old Colton, until a surfacing U-boat destroys their craft and severely injures his older ...Read Review
Christmas: A Biography
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This fascinating, if loosely-structured, study of the evolution of Christmas traditions will reward the patient reader. It brings together a wide variety of ...Read Review
Pilate’s Daughter
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Claudia Lucretia Pilate, the fictional daughter of the historically accurate governor Pontius Pilate, is not happy with her father’s choice of husband ...Read Review
The Gryphon at Bay
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1489: Hugh, the Second Lord Montgomerie, has just lost his father and is now given substantial power as a member of the Privy Council, ...Read Review
Crossing Point
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The American Revolution has begun, and is threatening to spill out of Boston in April 1775 when Guy Watson, slave to Rhode Island’s ...Read Review
The Vineyard
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Mauro Larrea has become a self-made man in 1860s Mexico City by means of courage and brawny determination. Over decades, this native Spaniard ...Read Review