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A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history - the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie''s grandmother''s abandoned home near Salem, she can''t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest-to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance''s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem''s dark past then she could have ever imagined. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman''s story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.

A chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe. It’s senior year, and St. Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the school’s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. The mystery illness spreads to the school''s popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. "[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."—USA Today "...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."—The New York Times "A chilling guessing game . . . that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued brother in an elegant town house in Boston''s Back Bay. Trapped in a world over which she has no control, Sybil flees for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium. But when her brother is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under mysterious circumstances and falls under the sway of a strange young woman, Sibyl turns for help to psychology professor Benton Jones, despite the unspoken tensions of their shared past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering spark flares to life, and they realize that there may be something even more magical between them than a medium''s scrying glass. From the opium dens of Boston''s Chinatown to the opulent salons of high society, from the back alleys of colonial Shanghai to the decks of the Titanic, The House of Velvet and Glass weaves together meticulous period detail, intoxicating romance, and a final shocking twist in a breathtaking novel that will thrill readers. Bonus features in the eBook: Katherine Howe''s essay on scrying; Boston Daily Globe article on the Titanic from April 15, 1912; and a Reading Group Guide and Q&A with the author, Katherine Howe.

While attending film school in New York City, Wes encounters Annie, a mysterious and intoxicatingly beautiful girl searching for a missing ring, and as they search together, they uncover secrets that reveal the truth of Annie''s dark past.

From a New York Times-bestselling author comes this daring account of one woman''s adventure among the most feared sea rovers of all time, perfect for fans of Kate Mosse and Jess Kidd ''An absolute page turner, full of unexpected twists and turns.'' Celia Rees, author of Pirates! She was one of the most terrifying seafarers of all time. This is her story. The Golden Age of Piracy is drawing to a close when Hannah Masury watches the public hanging of the infamous William Fly in a Boston town square. Rumours about the location of Fly''s buried treasure are rampant, and when Hannah finds a clue as to where it might be hidden, she decides it''s time to take the future into her own hands. Two centuries later in a dusty university archive, Professor Marian Beresford is captivated by Hannah''s story and the many unanswered questions she left behind. Hannah was determined to take her secrets with her to the grave, but in Marian, she might finally have met her match. A True Account is the page-turning story of two women from two very different worlds, both shattering the rules of their own society, both willing to risk everything to forge their own adventure. ''A feast for the sea-loving senses.'' Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary

A magical bloodline. A family curse. Can Connie break the spell before it shatters her future? A bewitching novel of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse, by Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America—especially women’s home recipes and medicines—and by exposing society''s threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows. When a hint from her mother and clues from her research lead Connie to the shocking realization that her partner’s life is in danger, she must race to solve the mystery behind a hundreds’-years-long deadly curse. Flashing back through American history to the lives of certain supernaturally gifted women, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs affectingly reveals not only the special bond that unites one particular matriarchal line, but also explores the many challenges to women’s survival across the decades—and the risks some women are forced to take to protect what they love most.

“Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written.” — Washington Post The #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe. One of the Washington Post''s Notable Works of Nonfiction When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

While clearing out her grandmother’s cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance’s spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost. What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must race to answer these questions – and reveal the truth about Salem’s women – before an ancient family curse once more fulfils its dark and devastating prophecy . . .

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Ésta es la historia de un misterioso libro que, de generación en generación, ha marcado las vidas de ocho mujeres extraordinarias desde finales del s. XVII hasta hoy. Connie es una joven brillante aspirante a profesora de historia en la dura y competitiva Universidad de Harvard. El verano que debe decidir el tema de su tesis doctoral, su madre le pide que vacíe la deshabitada casa de su abuela, cerca de Salem, con el propósito de venderla. Allí, oculta dentro de una Biblia, Connie encuentra una llave que esconde un papel con una extraña inscripción. La investigación que llevará a cabo para desvelar su significado la obligará a remontarse hasta la caza de brujas de Salem, en 1692, y la conducirá a un misterioso libro. Un libro que le revelará cosas sobre ella misma que nunca habría podido imaginar...

Connie Goodwin, giovane e brillante dottoranda all’Università di Harvard, è impegnata in una ricerca sui processi di Salem, nel New England, che alla fine del diciassettesimo secolo videro più di centocinquanta persone accusate di stregoneria. Ma durante l’estate è costretta a trasferirsi fuori città per sistemare e vendere la vecchia casa di famiglia. All’inizio contrariata, Connie scopre che l’antica dimora contiene strani e preziosi tesori: non ultima, una Bibbia da cui cade una chiave dal fusto cavo, al cui interno è nascosto un pezzetto di carta ingiallita con su scritto Deliverance Dane. Un nome legato non solo ai processi su cui Connie sta indagando, ma anche alla sua famiglia, a un segreto custodito da generazioni di donne e tramandato attraverso un libro proibito: un Libro delle Ombre, depositario di un sapere arcano e sovrannaturale, ormai perduto. Ma un filo rosso lega quel passato oscuro e terribile al presente: e mentre Connie, tormentata dalle visioni, cerca disperatamente di risolvere il mistero, qualcun altro è in cerca del libro perduto, e per ottenerlo è disposto a tutto, anche a ricorrere a una maledizione da cui non c’è scampo... Thriller, fantasy e romanzo storico a un tempo, il libro d’esordio di Katherine Howe affonda le radici nella famiglia stessa dell’autrice, discendente di due donne che subirono i processi di Salem. Una lettura che inebria e rende giustizia di un’illuminante concezione della magia, salvifica e curativa, che si opponeva alla superstizione feroce e all’odio per tutti saperi legati alla natura.

Inspirado em fatos reais, romance de Katherine Howe mistura drama adolescente ao julgamento das bruxas de Salem, no século XVII Uma misteriosa epidemia afeta as alunas do Ensino Médio na cidade de Danvers, Massachusetts. Subitamente, meninas à espera do resultado das universidades apresentam sintomas estranhos – convulsões, crises de tosse e queda de cabelo –, o que espalha pânico e dá início a especulações na comunidade da St. Joan Academy. Reação alérgica à vacina contra HPV, poluição ambiental, estresse coletivo... Ou elas estariam apenas fingindo? É quando uma das estudantes percebe semelhanças entre o que vem acontecendo com suas amigas e um evento que ocorreu há mais de três séculos: o julgamento das Bruxas de Salem, episódio no qual 20 pessoas foram condenadas à morte por praticar feitiçaria. Fazendo uma atividade complementar, a aluna-modelo Colleen Rowley precisa ler os relatos da época e começa a notar que talvez exista mais por trás da doença misteriosa que aflige suas colegas. Katherine Howe se inspirou no episódio real que aconteceu em 2012 em Le Roy, em Nova York, quando meninas do Ensino Médio começaram a ter contorções e distúrbios de fala inexplicáveis. Na época, a autora trabalhava a peça As bruxas de Salem, de Arthur Miller, na faculdade em que lecionava. As semelhanças entre os dois casos fizeram com que Howe intercalasse capítulos narrados por Colleen, em 2012, e Ann, uma das garotas suspeitas de estar envolvidas com feitiçaria, em 1706. Com doses de suspense, história e inquietação adolescente, a autora constrói uma trama que cativa o leitor, criando uma atmosfera tensa e misteriosa. Ao mesmo tempo, Howe retrata com fidelidade o clima de extrema competitividade acadêmica e mostra como o sentimento de impotência pode se revelar de maneiras misteriosas.

Katherine Howe, profesora de la Universidad de Cornell y descendiente de tres brujas acusadas en los juicios de Salem de 1692, ha recogido en este libro un gran número de documentos relacionados con la brujería y los procesos por brujería desde finales del siglo XVI hasta principios del XIX. Empezando por un juicio en Inglaterra contra una mujer acusada de causar la muerte de un bebé y de su cuñada, porque ésta la llamó «puta y bruja», sigue con la Demonología del rey Jacobo I, muy activo en la persecución de la brujería y responsable de una ley que dictaría el modelo judicial no solo en Inglaterra sino en las colonias norteamericanas. El pánico de Salem, que llevó a la horca a veinte personas (catorce de ellas mujeres), no fue una anomalía sino la consecuencia de un largo proceso de tipificación de la figura de la bruja y de su castigo por poner en peligro la fe y la cohesión de la comunidad. Pruebas de flotación (sumergir a la «bruja» en agua, atada, para ver si se hundía o no), pruebas «espectrales» (visiones o sueños a los que se daba validez jurídica) o la enigmática «teta de bruja» (que podían tener hombres y mujeres en cualquier parte del cuerpo) se unieron a acusaciones en que la mera palabra del afectado bastaba para certificar un maleficio. El libro de las brujas repasa uno de los períodos más oscuros de la historia a través de una galería de hechos y personajes escalofriante.

Von den eleganten Salons der Bostoner High Society zu den Opiumhöhlen Chinatowns. Von den quirligen Straßen des kolonialen Shanghai zu den Decks der Titanic. Boston 1915: Die 27-jährige Sibyl Allston lebt mit ihrem schweigsamen Vater Lan, einem ehemaligen Kapitän, und ihrem Bruder Harlan, einem vergnügungssüchtigen Harvard-Studenten, in einer Villa des noblen Viertels Back Bay. Trotz der eleganten Umgebung ist Sibyls Leben von Melancholie gekennzeichnet, seit ihre Mutter Helen und ihre temperamentvolle Schwester Eulah auf tragische Weise ums Leben gekommen sind. Den einzigen Trost findet Sibyl im Zirkel der verschrobenen Mrs Dee, wo sie regelmäßig an Séancen teilnimmt. Eine Fügung will es, dass Sibyl eines Tages ihre alte Jugendliebe, den Psychologieprofessor Benton Derby, wiedertrifft. Und es sieht so aus, als würde sich Sibyls Leben endlich zum Guten wenden, denn schon bald können der jung verwitwete Benton und Sibyl ihre Gefühle füreinander nicht mehr verbergen. Gemeinsam mit Benton kommt Sibyl jedoch einem alten Geheimnis ihrer Familie auf die Spur – und entdeckt plötzlich, dass sie eine ganz besondere Gabe besitzt, die sie die Welt mit völlig neuen Augen sehen lässt ...

14 aprile 1912. Ellen Allston e sua figlia Eulah si godono i fasti dell’alta società in una sfarzosa sala da ballo del Titanic, ignare della tragedia che travolgerà i loro destini. Boston, tre anni dopo. Sibyl Allston partecipa alle sedute spiritiche tenute in casa di una veggente nel disperato tentativo di contattare la madre e la sorella scomparse. Rimasta l’unica donna in famiglia, ormai ‘troppo vecchia per sposarsi’, Sibyl indossa con riluttanza i panni di un’impeccabile padrona di casa, rassegnata a fare ciò che tutti si aspettano da lei. Mentre l’amicizia per il suo amico Ben si trasforma lentamente in qualcosa di diverso, in una fumeria di Chinatown Sibyl interroga una sfera divinatoria e vede cose sconvolgenti e misteriose. La poppa di una nave nella sfera di cristallo è il confine tra passato e futuro, tra sogno e realtà. Esplorando le sue nuove, inquietanti facoltà Sibyl inizia un viaggio in cerca di se stessa che la porta, sulle tracce della storia familiare, a imbattersi in un segreto da lungo tempo custodito... Una storia di amore e mistero, intrigo e occulto in un’accurata ricostruzione della società americana agli inizi del Novecento. Una donna tenera e sorprendente, tenace e indomabile. Una battaglia tra fato e libertà, nel disperato tentativo di trovare la strada giusta per vivere la propria vita. Una storia capace di cambiare la percezione delle cose e di noi stessi.

Overseeing her daughter''s frantic attempts to identify recipes in time for a cookbook deadline, aging actress Trixie and her companion, Evangeline, investigate claims that the original cookbook author died after eating one of the recipes.

L''estudiant de Harvard Connie Goodwin ha de passar l''estiu fent recerca per a la seva tesi doctoral. Però quan la seva mare li demana que s''encarregui de la venda de la casa abandonada de l''àvia, a prop de Salem, no pot negar-s''hi. A poc a poc, la Connie s''anirà introduint en els misteris de la casa familiar, fins que descobreix una antiga clau dins d''una bíblia del segle XVII. La clau amaga un trosset grogós de pergamí on hi ha escrit un nom: Deliverance Dane. Aquest descobriment farà que la Connie comenci la recerca de qui era aquesta dona i desenterri un estrany artefacte amb uns poders especials: les pàgines d''aquest llibre són un magatzem secret de coneixement perdut.

Een Amerikaanse historica ontdekt in het huis van haar oma een antieke sleutel die te maken heeft met een van haar voorouders: een kruidengenezeres die ter dood werd veroordeeld in de heksenprocessen van Salem (1692).

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story-of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor''s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family''s story. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in America-offering a window onto the making of America itself.

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