HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297-1825
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This is not a maritime history of Britain to 1825, nor is it really a book about shipwrecks. It is a set of eight ...Read Review
Line by Line (Love along the Wires)
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In 1880s London, Alice McNeil has long ago chosen a career as a telegrapher instead of marriage and family, and has never regretted ...Read Review
How to Avoid the Marriage Mart (Breaking the Marriage Rules)
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1893. Despite her mother’s unrelenting pressure, Lady Charlotte Fitzroy has ‘no interest in becoming a married woman, effectively giving up her independence and ...Read Review
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
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In this highly readable, engrossing work of nonfiction, Cheney chronicles highlights in the lives of the first four men from Virginia who served ...Read Review
The Finder of Lost Things
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Winter 1590. Blanche Wainfleet is known as a finder of lost things. Utilizing her strong deductive skills, she must now discover who murdered her ...Read Review
A Lightness in My Soul: Inspired by a True Story
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“That day, my soul went flying out again.” In this novella, at times horrific and at others poignant, Arthur struggles to maintain an ...Read Review
Unto This Last
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John Ruskin was approaching forty when he agreed to teach drawing to the nine-year-old Rose La Touche, with whom he gradually fell in ...Read Review
Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
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In light of Brenda Maddox’s brilliant and exhaustive biography of Nora Barnacle—wife and muse of the writer James Joyce—and the 2000 ...Read Review
The Last Tea Bowl Thief
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In present-day Tokyo, Nori Okuda thinks she may have found a tea bowl crafted by the Pottery Priest Yoshi Takamatsu in the 1700s. ...Read Review
The Girl from the Tanner’s Yard
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Flirtatious tanner’s daughter Lucy Bancroft aspires to something better than the grinding drudgery her mother endures, raising too many children with little ...Read Review