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HNR Issue 90 (November 2019)

Reinhardt’s Garden

By Mark Haber - Published 2019

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In 1907, Jacov Reinhardt is obsessed with melancholy and its effect on mankind. In an attempt to complete his treatise on the subject, Reinhardt ...Read Review

Arrows of Fire

By Marlen Suyapa Bodden - Published 2019

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1519. Twelve-year-old Flower is taken from her family and forced to become a goddess impersonator. When her beauty catches the eye of the ruler, ...Read Review

An Irish Country Family: An Irish Country Novel (Irish Country Books)

By Patrick Taylor - Published 2019

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Saga

In this enjoyable fourteenth installment of the Irish Country series, Patrick Taylor returns readers to the Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo. This offering ...Read Review

The Spitfire Girls

By Jenny Holmes - Published 2019

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My father was a World War Two pilot. He told me much about aircraft but not so much about the Air Transport Auxiliary (...Read Review

The Darker Arts

By Oscar de Muriel - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

Edinburgh 1889. In the fifth in the Scotland-based series, detective inspectors Adolphus McGray and Ian Frey are summoned to investigate the mysterious deaths of ...Read Review

Don’t Tell the Nazis

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult

1941 Ukraine is the setting for this harrowing story told through one pre-teen’s eyes. Krystia has already had her share of troubles. Her ...Read Review

The Twice-Hanged Man (Medieval Mysteries)

By Priscilla Royal - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

This is Royal’s fifteenth medieval mystery featuring Prioress Eleanor of Norfolk’s Tyndal Priory. It is autumn, 1282. Eleanor is in the Welsh ...Read Review

Underestimating Miss Cecilia (Regency Brides: Daughters of Aynsley)

By Carolyn Miller - Published 2019

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Romance

The middle daughter and thus second in the Daughters of Aynsley trilogy, shy Cecilia Hatherleigh suffers a painful unrequited love for the earl’...Read Review

Once Upon a Time in France

By Fabien Nury - By Sylvain Vallee - Published 2019

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This graphic novel series, first published in France with over 1 million copies sold, has received several awards, including the Angoulême International Comics ...Read Review