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HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

The Historians

By Cecilia Ekbäck - Published 2020

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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

Elizabeth and Elizabeth

By Sue Williams -

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Biographical Fiction

Elizabeth and Elizabeth is bestselling Australian journalist and non-fiction writer, Sue Williams’ first historical novel, based on the true story of two colonial ...Read Review

Sergeant Salinger

By Jerome Charyn - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction Literary

This fictionalized account of J. D. Salinger’s WWII years and recovery (1942-47) opens in New York City. He lives with his parents ...Read Review

All Through the Night

By Tara Johnson - Published 2021

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Inspirational Romance

Cadence Piper lives in Washington DC during the early Civil War years. She possesses both a stuttering tongue and a strong will to ...Read Review

The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother

By Ismail Kadare - By John Hodgson (trans.) - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction Literary

Winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and other prestigious awards, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s most well-known novelist and poet. This ...Read Review

Glamour Girls

By Marty Wingate - Published 2021

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Rosalie Wright wanted to fly ever since she saw a plane at a flying circus set up at an airfield near her family’...Read Review

Dear Miss Kopp

By Amy Stewart - Published 2021

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Epistolary novels, perfected in an earlier century, can be daunting. Readers must try to piece together events from the pens of various characters ...Read Review

The Rib King

By Ladee Hubbard - Published 2021

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Literary

In Ladee Hubbard’s debut novel, The Talented Ribkins, bizarre superpowers juiced the hero’s struggle against race and mobsters. Now in The ...Read Review

The Quisling Factor

By J. L. Oakley - Published 2020

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Thriller

Oakley returns to the fjords of Norway, and her protagonist, Jens, in her new postwar thriller. Tore Haugland, a Norwegian ex-intelligence officer, Codename ...Read Review