![]() ![]() Magic Lessons is a “heartbreaking and heart-healing” ( BookPage) celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman’s masterful storytelling. And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. ![]() ![]() When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. ![]() 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. In this “ bewitching” ( The New York Times Book Review) novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. ![]()
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Upon arriving in the city, Freedman went to the boardinghouse of James Bias, a Black doctor he was told he could trust. The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia-the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line-helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad ![]() ![]() ![]() A wry observer of modern love, Laura Dave steers clear of easy answers to explore the romantic choices we make (USA Today). 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A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series. HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3). Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. 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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. In the summer of 1983, four teenagers run away from their summer camp in the middle of the. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. is the debut novel from 80s Slasher author Cameron Roubique. ![]() Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. Once inside, a mysterious masked maniac picks them off one by one. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. 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