HNR Issue 84 (May 2018)

Flying Jenny

By Theasa Tuohy - Published 2018

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In 1929, two young women test the bounds of society as well as their budding relationships in Tuohy’s Flying Jenny. Jenny Flynn can ...Read Review

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

By Michael David Lukas - Published 2018

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Joseph, a graduate student in America, receives a mysterious package involving his father. The note reads, “Hope you can use this.” Joseph’s ...Read Review

The Genes of Isis

By Justin Newland - Published 2017

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Historical Fantasy

A flood is coming, one capable of wiping out all life on earth. However, when Akasha and Horque lock eyes for the first ...Read Review

Lady Mary

By Lucy Worsley - Published 2018Published 2018-04-05

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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

1527. Eleven-year-old Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, are at the Palace of Greenwich where the ...Read Review

The Missionary’s Son

By Rod G. Harmon - Published 2016

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Frank’s father is a missionary serving in Shanghai. During the 1930s, hostilities are escalating quickly between the Chinese and Japanese. In their ...Read Review

Breakout at Stalingrad

By Heinrich Gerlach - Published 2018

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This is two books in one.  The first 550 pages is the book itself by Heinrich Gerlach, and the Appendix of 150 pages, by Carsten ...Read Review

Rivers

By Jonathan Reeder (trans.) - By Martin Michael Driessen - Published 2018

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Literary

Dutch writer Martin Michael Driessen’s novel, Rivers, was published originally in 2016 to critical acclaim, and it won the prestigious ECI Literature Prize. ...Read Review

The Life & Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler

By Stephen Basdeo - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

This not a book of mediaeval history.  It begins with a brief account of what is known about Wat Tyler, leader of the ...Read Review

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By Laura Spinney - Published 2017

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Nonfiction

With the recent emergence of a particularly nasty strain of a flu virus, ostensibly from Australia, causing immense discomfort to many sufferers, this ...Read Review

Pilgrim’s War

By MICHAEL JECKS - Published 2018

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Adventure

Pilgrim’s War begins in France in 1096, when a hermit promises the townspeople that Christian soldiers who march to Jerusalem will be rewarded ...Read Review