HNR Issue 91 (February 2020)
The Light After the War
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Inspired by her mother’s story of survival during the Holocaust, Anita Abriel relates the tale of two young women trying to carve ...Read Review
Winter of Despair (A Gaslight Mystery)
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Set in 1853 in London, this second in the Gaslight series again features Wilkie Collins as narrator and Charles Dickens as all-around detective, great ...Read Review
The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel
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A mother’s unconditional love and fierce desire to protect her child is at the heart of this tragic and beautiful novel set ...Read Review
White Bird: A Wonder Story
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From the author of Wonder comes this moving and inspirational graphic novel—the author’s first foray into this genre—about the Holocaust. ...Read Review
The Hollows: A Novel (The Kinship Series)
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Following up on her successful 2019 mystery, The Widows, Montgomery revisits 1920s Appalachian Ohio in The Hollows. Feisty Sheriff Lily Ross, a character based ...Read Review
Minesweeper (Special Forces, Book 2)
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Before there were Navy SEALs, there were Underwater Demolition Teams, UDTs. Fergus Frew lost his father in WWII. His mother worries about him ...Read Review
Straight Uphill: A Tale of Love and Chocolate
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Gretchen’s nice life is derailed by the bus accident death of her kindergarten son and divorce from her husband. She flees Loon, ...Read Review
The Ghosts of Saratoga
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It’s 1777, and 17-year-old Roland McCaffrey is a scout for General Schuyler, who leads the American militia in upper New York. His immediate ...Read Review
The Taste of Rain
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By 1945 Gwen has been a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in northern China for three years, since the Japanese attacked her boarding ...Read Review
A Long Petal of the Sea
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Allende’s fluidly written saga conveys her deep familiarity with the events she depicts, and her intent to illustrate their human impact in ...Read Review