HNR Issue 91 (February 2020)

The German House

By Annette Hess - Published 2019

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World War II is no more than a hazy memory for 24-year-old Eva Bruhns, who in 1963 Frankfurt is more concerned with her demanding ...Read Review

Estoril

By Dejan Tiago-Stankovic - Published 2019

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Literary

In June 1940, a ten-year-old Jewish boy from Antwerp arrives alone at the Hotel Palácio Estoril outside Lisbon. Gaby, short for Gavrihel, brings ...Read Review

Light Changes Everything: A Novel

By Nancy E. Turner - Published 2020

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Western

In the summer of 1907, Mary Pearl Prine is a teenager living in the Arizona Territory. She is the youngest girl in a close ...Read Review

Kings of East York

By R. Brian Mackey - Published 2018

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Robert MacDougall grows up in mid-20th-century East York, a lower middle-class neighborhood in Canada. His story is about “those seminal events and ...Read Review

Swallow’s Dance

By Wendy Orr - Published 2018

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Children/Young Adult

Prolific children’s author Wendy Orr beckons us back 4,000 years to Minoan Greece, when mortals believed in many gods, and omens, prayer and ...Read Review

Rio Ruidoso

By Preston Lewis - Published 2020

Genres:

Western

Civil War veteran Wes Bracken comes to New Mexico, where the Rio Ruidoso and Rio Bonito converge, to raise horses with his brother ...Read Review

Requiem for a Knave

By Laura Carlin - Published 2020

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

This is a dark Gothic tale set in late Mediaeval England, structured as a pilgrimage from a village in Derbyshire to the shrine ...Read Review

Queen’s Gambit

By Bradley Harper - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

1897: While the city of London waits excitedly for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Margaret Harkness and her old ally Professor Bell are summoned ...Read Review

Surprise Lily

By Sharelle Byars Moranville - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult

Ten-year-old Rose loves living on the family farm with her grandmother Ama. What she doesn’t particularly love is having to give an ...Read Review

The Girl from the Corner Shop

By Alrene Hughes - Published 2019

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Romance

This sweet historical romance is set in wartime Manchester. Newlywed Helen Harrison’s firefighter husband Jim has been killed during a bombing raid’...Read Review