HNR Issue 96 (May 2021)
Child Bride: A Novel
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Turner, a poet, has written a lovely coming-of-age novel centered on Nell Jones, 16, the youngest child of twelve in an impoverished African American ...Read Review
The Woman with the Blue Star
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In March 1943, Krakow, Poland is a cold, unforgiving city under increasingly brutal occupation by the Nazis. Eighteen-year-old Sadie has escaped the ‘aktions’ before, ...Read Review
This Side of Hell (A Widowmaker Jones Western)
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This Side of Hell is the fourth in Brett Cogburn’s Widowmaker Jones Series. Here, Newt “Widowmaker” Jones joins a posse (mostly good ...Read Review
Climate Change: An Archaeological Study
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The thesis of this book is that climate change is nothing new, even during the few tens of thousands of years that mankind ...Read Review
The Widow Queen (The Bold 1)
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Set mainly in Poland, Denmark, and Sweden from about 984 to 997 AD, The Widow Queen is the story of Swietoslawa, daughter of Duke Mieszko ...Read Review
When the Earth Dragon Trembled
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This is the story of a young boy in Chinatown during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Han is twelve years old and ...Read Review
An Inconvenient Grand Tour (Victorian Grand Tour)
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1854: Lady Eleanor Barrington needs a good marriage to put an end to the scandal caused by a scurrilous anonymous engraving of her father. ...Read Review
The Metal Heart: A Novel of Love and Valor in World War II
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When war unexpectedly makes itself felt in Orkney in 1941, the authorities decide to send a group of Italian POWs to build barriers to ...Read Review
Tokyo Redux
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Tokyo Redux centers around the mysterious death of Sadanori Shimoyama, President of Japanese National Railways, on July 5, 1949—when the beleaguered bureaucrat disappeared. He ...Read Review
