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by Rivka Galchen
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by Kieran Shields
Published Feb 2013
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by Megan Chance
Published Dec 2012
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Daughters of the Witching Hill
by Mary Sharratt
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsDaughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt.
by Kathleen Kent
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsMartha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. The Heretic's Daughter tells her story; a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.
by Geraldine Brooks
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
by James Morrow
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsJennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act.
by Judith Lindbergh
Published Dec 2006
Read ReviewsSet in Viking Greenland in AD 985, this dramatic historical novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future
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