Alice Hoffman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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London centered stories about three women. New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London after having had an affair with Paul, her sister Allie's fiancé to cope with the impending marriage, and Paul's terminal illness. London 1966, Frieda Lewis, Paul's future mother falls for a doomed up-and-coming songwriter knowing he will break her heart. The narrative then shifts further back, to 1952 and to Maddy and Allie's future mother, Lucy Green....
Author
Language
English
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Description
With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Four women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against...
6) Aquamarine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people's thoughts, and charismatic Vincent,...
8) Blue diary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.
10) Faithful
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl, until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls - including an angel who's been watching...
11) The river king
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An inexplicable death in Haddan, Massachusetts leads to the unraveling of the lives of some of the residents of the small river town.
12) Seventh heaven
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nora Silk moves to a typical suburban community in the 1950s, determined to raise her two children without a husband and with a liberated spirit that foreshadows the decade ahead.
13) Angel Landing
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a power plant explodes near Long Island, Natalie Lansky's life is changed.
14) Practical magic
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two sisters brought up by elderly aunts in a world of magic spells and exotica.
20) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Practical magic volume 0.5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back.When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared...