HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Miss Benson’s Beetle
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A spinster teacher in her mid-forties in a girls’ school in ration-hit, grey-toned, austerity England in 1950, Miss Margery Benson walks out of her ...Read Review
Sicilian Dreams
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In 1907 Sicily, Santo Regina, a young widower, finds it difficult to make a living in a society divided into landowners and peasants. Seeing ...Read Review
Iva: The True Story of Tokyo Rose
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Weedall’s debut tells the unforgettable story of Iva Toguri, a young Japanese-American woman who, after World War II, was tried for treason ...Read Review
When We Were Young & Brave (US/CAN) / The Bird in the Bamboo Cage (UK)
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This absorbing book about courage and fortitude transports the reader inside a Japanese internment camp during the World War II years. Elspeth is ...Read Review
Stella
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How do people rationalize maintaining relationships with others who hold abhorrent views? This question makes Stella especially relevant – because its author is German, ...Read Review
Jerningham
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In 1841, nineteen-year-old Edward Jerningham Wakefield arrives on New Zealand’s shores brimming with energy and tasked with acquiring territory for the New Zealand ...Read Review
A Thousand Texas Longhorns
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In 1866, Virginia City, in Montana Territory, is inhabited by 5000 people. This is a story of an Ohio man, Nelson Story, living in Virginia ...Read Review
The Historians
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Britta Hallberg is found dead in the meeting hall of Historical Society headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden, her body bearing signs of cruel torture, ...Read Review
The Stallions of Woodstock
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King’s commissioners, Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive in Oxford to adjudicate a land dispute and are drawn into an investigation of ...Read Review
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
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Venus and Aphrodite is a journey through time at the conception, birth, and transformation of a goddess associated with love and desire. Yet ...Read Review
