Hoffman, Alice

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.

The Farrells, an ordinary family living in an upper-class New England town, struggle to cope when eleven-year-old Amanda, a promising gymnast, is diagnosed with AIDS, the result of a blood transfusion five years earlier.

Disappointed each time she has reached out to her family, and finding her blood relationships disintegrating, Teresa half expects a shadowy stranger to save her.

Contains two novels, including "Green Angel," in which fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own after losing her family in a fire; and "Green Witch," that follows Green one year later as she becomes the one villagers turn to for aid, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.

Two best friends share a mysterious secret in "Aquamarine" and friendship, identity, and tension between family ties and freedom is the theme for "Indigo.".

In a quiet upper-class New England town, a family is forced to confront a bitter crisis when an eleven-year-old girl contracts AIDS.

The lives of three women of different generations are united by tragic love, a ghost that haunts a London hotel, and their quest to find the Third Angel that can restore their faith.

Seventeen-year-old Arlyn Singer, standing on the porch after her father's funeral, promises herself that the first man to walk down the street will be her one true love, and her confidence sets the stage for generations of heartache when she convinces John Moody, a Yale student who stopped to ask directions, that she is right.

Gretel Samuelson grows up in a suburban neighborhood with her best friend Jill, struggling to deal with the everyday disappointments and tragedies that occur on the way to adulthood.

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.