HNR Issue 93 (August 2020)
HNR Issue 93 (August 2020)
Stitching a Life: An Immigration Story
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Stitching a Life begins in Lithuania, in 1900, where Max, the oldest son of a Jewish family is about to turn 12. When the Russian ...Read Review
At Love’s Command (Hanger’s Horsemen)
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Sickened by their participation in the massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee in 1890, Captain Matthew Hanger and his three devoted friends retire ...Read Review
Say Yes to the Duke: The Wildes of Lindow Castle
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1781. As stepdaughter to the Duke of Lindow, Violet Astley does not consider herself a ‘real’ Wilde, despite the fact that the rest of ...Read Review
The Degenerates
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There is so much about this novel that shouldn’t work—multiple points of view, long episodes of the abuse of young women, ...Read Review
The Magic in Changing Your Stars
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This time-slip novel for middle-grade readers inhabits the modern small-town life of eleven-year-old Ailey, then sends him, by way of magic, to the 1939 ...Read Review
Rip to the Rescue
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Set in 1940s London, this gripping novel about a 13-year-old holds the interest of adults and children alike. Jack serves as a bike ...Read Review
An Independent Heart
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February 1814: A pawn in her brother’s bid to enter Parliament, Claire Lammond enters into an arranged marriage with Captain Justin Sumners, lately ...Read Review
A Promise on the Horizon
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A Promise on the Horizon is a beautifully written novel about two French travelers in the Napoleonic Italy of 1811. Henri Beyle, later to ...Read Review
The Tsar’s Locket
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In 1581 near London, Julian Blunt, a former sea captain, walks into a Catholic cemetery towards his wife’s grave. It was for her ...Read Review
The Art of Deception (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries 4)
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This is the fourth in Leonard Goldberg’s mystery series featuring Joanna Blalock Watson, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes; her husband, Dr. John ...Read Review