HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

Cloudmaker

By Malcolm Brooks - Published 2021

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It’s 1936, and Montana’s winter is closing in when fourteen-year-old Houston “Huck” Finn completes a glider based on the Wright brothers’ successful ...Read Review

Play the Red Queen

By Juris Jurjevics - Published 2020

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

A couple of cops with the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division in Saigon, 1963, are charged with stopping “the red queen,” a femme fatale ...Read Review

Band of Sisters

By Lauren Willig - Published 2021

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During the height of World War I, a contingent of idealistic young college women decided to make a difference. Based upon an inspiring ...Read Review

The Dress Shop on King Street (Heirloom Secrets)

By Ashley Clark - Published 2020

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Inspirational Romance

This is a multi-timeline novel that begins in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860. Rose, enslaved to a wicked family, has been told that her ...Read Review

The Unfinished Land

By Greg Bear - Published 2021

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Historical Fantasy

Bear is a celebrated fantasy/SF author who brings his considerable world-building skills to this alternative version of Renaissance England. The narrative begins ...Read Review

The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses

By Catherine Curzon - Published 2020

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Nonfiction

Curzon sketches the lives of King George III of England and Queen Charlotte’s six unusual daughters in this entertaining history. Though devoted ...Read Review

Masque of Honor: A Historical Novel of the American South

By Sharon Virts - Published 2021

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Former Lt. John “Jack” McCarty of the War of 1812 can be shallow and self-absorbed, though he can also be thoughtful, considerate, and self-aware. ...Read Review

The Wild High Places

By Zarabeth Abbey - Published 2020

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Adventure

Raised in his foster father’s household of the warrior Rajput caste on the western edge of the early British Raj, young Jefferji ...Read Review

A Marquis in Want of a Wife (Liberated Ladies, 3)

By Louise Allen - Published 2020

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Romance

1815. Prudence Scott is a rather naive young woman, more interested in scholarly pursuits than fashion, but after being seduced by the glib flattery ...Read Review

The Berlin Girl: A Novel of World War II

By Mandy Robotham - Published 2020

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Berlin, 1938: in Robotham’s third novel on a World War II theme, Georgie Young, a journalist and admirer of Martha Gellhorn, takes her ...Read Review