HNR Issue 91 (February 2020)

This Terrible Beauty: A Novel

By Katrin Schumann - Published 2020

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Set on the East German island of Rügen, due north of Berlin by 180 miles, is a story of love and betrayal, courage ...Read Review

Harbor for the Nightingale: A Stranje House Novel

By Kathleen Baldwin - Published 2019

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Romance

In the latest novel in Kathleen Baldwin’s Stranje House series, Maya Barrington continues to use her gift of soothing voice and ability ...Read Review

A Silent Stabbing (A Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery)

By Alyssa Maxwell - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

The fifth entry in the Lady and Lady’s Maid mysteries finds Phoebe Renshaw and personal maid, Eva Huntford, once again on the ...Read Review

The Poppy Wife / The Photographer of the Lost

By Caroline Scott - Published 2019

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“Missing in Action” is a term many have heard. This is the story of a family who is living with that reality. To ...Read Review

The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire Turned Artful Dodgers into Child Killers

By Steve Harris - Published 2019

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Nonfiction

Much has been written about the early Australian convicts, but perhaps less-known is the fact that around 3,000 boys, some as young as seven ...Read Review

Upturned Earth

By Karen Jennings - Published 2019

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This novel is set in mid-19th century Namaqualand, a mining area of South Africa’s Cape Colony. The terrain is as cruel ...Read Review

The Committee

By Sterling Watson - Published 2020

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Literary

Tom Stall is thrust into the middle of an investigation by the Florida state legislature’s Johns Committee. As the new acting chairman ...Read Review

Freedom Lessons: A Novel

By Eileen Harrison Sanchez - Published 2019

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Told in alternating viewpoints, this impressive novel reaches back in time to the early days of school integration, and to a place in ...Read Review

The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly

By Kerri Maher - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

In her second venture into historical fiction, after documenting Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy and her debutante days in London, author Kerri Maher turns her ...Read Review

Muskrat Hill

By Easy Jackson - Published 2020

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Mystery/CrimeWestern

This mystery takes place in the small Texas town of Muskrat Hill in the late 19th century. Young Kit Robertson and his best ...Read Review