HNR Issue 96 (May 2021)
The Pulse of His Soul
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Genealogist Smith novelizes the life of John Lothropp, a Separatist minister who broke with the Anglican Church and became a forgotten Founding Father: ...Read Review
The French House
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After falling in love and marrying François, the scion of the Clicquot champagne estate in 1798, 21-year-old Nicole Ponsardin schools herself in the ...Read Review
Root Magic
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Root Magic begins with eleven-year-old Jezebel Turner at her grandmother’s burial in 1963 in the marshy South Carolina Lowcountry, along with her twin, ...Read Review
Palace of the Drowned
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It’s 1966, and more than a decade has passed since Frances (Frankie) Croy’s debut novel captured the London literary world; failure has ...Read Review
The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the True Story of Wilhelm Brasse, Prisoner 3444
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Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish prisoner at Auschwitz in 1941, is recruited by the SS to take photographs of all the new arrivals. This is ...Read Review
Until Vienna (Romance on the Orient Express)
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In 1900, seamstress/designer Georgina Ballard accompanies her elderly aunt on a private ‘twilight art tour’ aboard the Orient Express, organized by Professor Clyde ...Read Review
Old Sins (A Henry Johnstone Mystery 6)
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It is 1929 in England, and two retired police officers are dead. Suicide is suspected since both men had been experiencing financial difficulties in ...Read Review
Chains Across the River
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This is the story of Thomas Machin, an engineer of somewhat flawed character who enlisted in the British Army and was posted to ...Read Review
Our Woman in Moscow
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Williams has a gift for taking time-honored romance tropes – doomed love affairs, rebellious ingenues, disillusioned spouses, louche aristocrats, pretend husbands – and giving them ...Read Review
A Flight of Arrows (The Hundred Years’ War)
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In the summer of 1346, King Edward III is determined to make a breakthrough in the endless war by invading Brittany, where a handful ...Read Review
