HNR Issue 93 (August 2020)
HNR Issue 93 (August 2020)
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
The Big Man’s Daughter
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In its opening scene, Rita Gaspereaux makes funeral arrangements for her con artist father, whose illicit enterprise has come to a sudden and ...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
A Map of the Damage
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Tobin has created a scintillating novel of smoke and mirrors set in the glass-loaded Mirrormakers Club in London. Two narratives weave around each ...Read Review
The Voyage of the Morning Light (US) / The Difference (CAN)
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In 1911, twelve-year-old Kay and her older half-sister, Thea, take a sea voyage from Nova Scotia to the South Pacific islands. The merchant ship, ...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
