HNR Issue 89 (August 2019)
The Falling Sword (Clash of Empires)
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198 BC. The wolves of Macedon and Rome are circling, and the prize is Greece. Once a league of proud and independent city-states, Greece ...Read Review
Rocket Man: The Mercury Adventure of John Glenn
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In 1961, the Soviet Union was winning the Space Race; having sent a man into orbit before the US had even sent a man ...Read Review
Montauk
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Set in the summer of 1938, Montauk recalls the days when well-to-do New Yorkers left the city’s heat and summered on Long Island ...Read Review
The Long Flight Home
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In September 1940, England’s war with Germany is a year old. France has surrendered, British soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk in June, and in ...Read Review
Memoirs of a Traitor
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Presented as a found document, Memoirs of a Traitor is the story of William Stanley, knight, younger brother of Lord Thomas Stanley. These ...Read Review
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
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Cracow, 1893: Zofia Turbotyńska, aged 40 and childless, strives to advance herself in local society. She is married to a medical professor, Ignacy, who ...Read Review
Emmie and the Tudor King (Hearts and Crowns Book One)
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A month before senior year ends, Emmie’s history teacher assigns a paper about a Tudor King named Nicholas the First, known as ...Read Review
Murder Knocks Twice (Speakeasy Mysteries)
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January 1929. While the Chicago winter rages outside, the atmosphere heats up at the Third Door, the speakeasy where Gina Ricci, heroine of this ...Read Review
Little Zinnobers
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Little Zinnobers is not an easy read and presents many challenges, especially to an English-speaking readership. Even the title is problematic, coming from ...Read Review
Race to Marathon
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After word arrives that hundreds of Persian ships are on course to land at the Bay of Marathon, the fewer Athenians scramble to ...Read Review
