HNR Issue 96 (May 2021)
From the Ashes
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In 79 AD Pompeii, a slave and scribe, Althea, is offered to Marcus, a former soldier, and operator of the amphitheater. Althea’s master ...Read Review
Libertie: A Novel
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On the surface, Libertie is a coming-of-age novel. Libertie Sampson, free-born, dark Black daughter of the much lighter and more self-assured Dr. Catherine ...Read Review
The Personal Librarian
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Marie Benedict’s historical novels have been entertaining and educating historical fiction readers for years, and award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray has penned ...Read Review
Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens 6)
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Chronicling Katharine Parr’s life from her first marriage through to the end of her fourth is a huge accomplishment. Through Katharine’s ...Read Review
Angel of Greenwood
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Angel Hill and Isaiah Wilson have grown up in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the prosperous Black community known until summer 1921 as “...Read Review
Letters from Johnny
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In 1970, 11-year-old Johnny Wong lives in a Toronto tenement with his Chinese mother. Mother speaks little English and at times works two jobs, ...Read Review
All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany
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In 1896, Elisabeth (Lisi) von Schwabacher, a gifted pianist and the daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin after three years of ...Read Review
Teddy Roosevelt, Millie and the Elegant Ride
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Millie Thayer is caught up in a dream, but world events may derail the plan to exchange her Maine farm life for more ...Read Review
Wartime with the Cornish Girls
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A remote spot on England’s Cornish coast is relied upon as a vital weapon in World War II. Porthcurno is the setting ...Read Review
The Lady Has a Past
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1930s Burning Cove, California, is a place to begin afresh. On the job for three whole days, Lyra Brazier, San Francisco socialite and ...Read Review