Hoffman, Alice

Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, an unearthly festival of lanterns held on Martha's Vineyard, the novel chronicles a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion.

The tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two sisters brought up by elderly aunts in a world of magic spells and exotica.

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.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism"--.

A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disgised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keeps doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.

Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by her classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.

Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.

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 in the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans.

In the early twentieth century, a romance is sparked between, freak show performer, Coralie Sardie, and young immigrant photographer, Eddie Cohen, but after taking photographs following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Eddie becomes involved in the mystery behind a young woman's disappearance.