Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Queen of the Night

By Alexander Chee - Published 2016

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When Lilliet Berne, a legendary soprano with the Paris Opera, is presented with the opportunity to star in a new opera, she discovers ...Read Review

Lizzie and the Lost Baby

By Cheryl Blackford - Published 2016

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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

During WWII in England, city children who are expecting the terror of German bombers are sent to the country, where they can escape ...Read Review

When Mischief Came to Town

By Katrina Nannestad - Published 2016

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Children/Young Adult

In 1911, Inge Maria finds herself shipped from her beloved city of Copenhagen, where she lived with her mother, to the small island of ...Read Review

Love by the Morning Star

By Laura L. Sullivan - Published 2016

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Children/Young Adult

This teen novel is not what you might expect from a story set in wartime Britain. With Hitler on move against the rest ...Read Review

Into the Dim

By Janet B. Taylor - Published 2016

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Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Hope Walton was homeschooled in her small town, and she’s developed some crippling phobias. When her mother dies in an explosion thousands ...Read Review

Assassin’s Mask: A Palace of Spies Novel, 3

By Sarah Zettel - Published 2015

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AdventureChildren/Young Adult

It’s 1716 in England, and life is turning around for seventeen-year-old Margaret “Peggy” Fitzroy. By day Peggy is maid of honour to her ...Read Review

We That Are Left

By Clare Clark - Published 2015

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This is Clare Clark’s fifth novel – all have been historical tales reviewed by the HNS – and this is another engagingly narrated story. ...Read Review

The Zigzag Girl

By Elly Griffiths - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

When a young woman is discovered sliced into three precise pieces, Brighton’s Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens believes she is the victim of ...Read Review

Girl Waits with Gun

By Amy Stewart - Published 2015

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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

Horticulturist Amy Stewart turns from the world of plants (The Drunken Botanist, 2013) to that of 20th-century crime. The title, a headline from the ...Read Review

Maud’s Line

By Margaret Verble - Published 2015Published 2015-07-14

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Maud Nail, growing up on the Cherokee allotment lands in the 1920s, shares a tiny shack and a hard life with her father, ...Read Review