HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
A Pretty Deceit (A Verity Kent Mystery)
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In October 1919, 23-year-old Verity Kent and her husband, Sidney, are trying to shed the traumas of WWI and settle back into the upper-crust ...Read Review
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop: A Novel
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The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop is the sequel to Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. It is ...Read Review
Cathedral
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Spanning over a century—from 1229 to 1351—Cathedral doesn’t detail the workings of the humongous construction project at its heart. Nor does it ...Read Review
The Vanishing at Loxby Manor
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Inspirational RomanceMystery/Crime
In this Regency Noir romantic mystery, Loxby Manor is supposed to be a place of comfort for Charity Halliwell. After being suddenly whisked ...Read Review
In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow
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In the months preceding the atomic bomb, American soldier Micah Lund dies on a mission over Hiroshima. He wakes up in Japan as ...Read Review
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors (England’s Medieval Queens)
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Weir’s latest non-fiction offering covers the lives of five English medieval queens, from the best-known Eleanor of Aquitaine, through to another Eleanor, ...Read Review
Wicked Mistress Yale, The Parting Glass (The Yale Trilogy)
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In 1700 London, the East India Company’s (EIC) former governor, Elihu Yale, recently returned from Madras, is at a dinner party with his ...Read Review
Tidewater Bride
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Shopkeeper’s daughter Selah Hopewell helps pair unwed women from England with James Towne’s tobacco farmers. Though she spends a majority of ...Read Review
The Tuscan Contessa
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This novel opens on a shuttered square on a summer evening in 1944; three crows appear, one after the other, a bad omen. Set ...Read Review
The Sky Worshipers
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In The Sky Worshipers, Deemyad takes us on a vivid and lush journey through the Mongol conquests of the 13th and 14th centuries. ...Read Review
