HNR Issue 84 (May 2018)
To Die But Once
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Although WW2 has broken out, in London it is the lull before the storm when everyone is prepared for attack but nothing much ...Read Review
The Rehearsals
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Written in the early 1980s, and now translated into English for the first time, Vladimir Sharov’s The Rehearsals is considered a modern ...Read Review
Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Set in late-1700s New York during the American Revolution, this is an entertaining homage to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, Hamilton. Peggy Schuyler, ...Read Review
Once There Was Fire: A Novel of Old Hawaii
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While many readers or movie watchers are familiar with the story of Hawaii told by James Michener, very few know of the early ...Read Review
Line of Glory
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It’s the final 13 hours at the Alamo back in 1836. Texan Colonel Travis draws his famous and dramatic “line in the sand.” Surrounded ...Read Review
A Song of Home
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A Song of Home is the third and last in Finkbeiner’s series of inspirational novels featuring Pearl Spence. Eleven-year-old Pearl narrates her ...Read Review
Who Are You, Trudy Herman?
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Trudy Herman’s parents had emigrated as children to the U.S. from Germany in 1909. In 1943, Trudy is a typical American teenager, riding ...Read Review
Régina Diana: Seductress, Singer, Spy
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The death of Mata Hari before a firing squad in Paris in 1917 is one of the most famous events in the history of ...Read Review
A Contrary Wind
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A Contrary Wind: A Variation on Mansfield Park continues the story of the delicate and over-emotional Fanny Price, my least favorite of all ...Read Review
The Athenian Women
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Alessandro Barbero’s The Athenian Women is a complex tale highlighting the class struggles of women subjugated under a patriarchal system and of ...Read Review
