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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman Paperback Book

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of...

Publication Date: Apr 2012

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Blackbird House (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Alice Hoffman

These 12 stories all take place in the old farmhouse known as Blackbird House, on Cape Cod. From colonial days to modern times, the house is home to a series of inhabitants whose lives are delineated here. In the experience of each--and they include...

Publication Date: Jun 2005

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Skylight Confessions

by Alice Hoffman

Achingly beautiful and filled with heart-wrenchingly real characters: one of Hoffman's best.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical,...

Publication Date: Feb 2008

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The River King

by Alice Hoffman

A town divided by class lines is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious death, which begins to unravel the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl, a young boy, and a women running from her own destiny. By the author of Local Girls. Reprint.

Publication Date: Jul 2001

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The Third Angel

by Alice Hoffman

"Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer."–Jodi Picoult Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood...

Publication Date: Mar 2009

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Local Girls

by Alice Hoffman

An anthology of interconnected short stories captures the lives and destinies of the Samuelsons, a family struggling with tragedy and divorce, in a series of portraits that chronicle Gretel Samuelson's journey through betrayal, grief, conflicting...

Publication Date: May 2000

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The Story Sisters

by Alice Hoffman

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Third AngelAlice Hoffman's previous novel, The Third Angel, was hailed as "an unforgettable portrait of the depth of true love" (USA Today), "stunning" (Jodi Picoult),...

Publication Date: Jun 2010

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The Ice Queen

by Alice Hoffman

The nameless narrator of Alice Hoffman's winsome novel makes a thoughtless wish when she is eight years old. It immediately comes true, and her life is wrecked. Grown up into an emotionally dead librarian, she thinks constantly about death until...

Publication Date: Jan 2006

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The Red Garden

by Alice Hoffman

"Hoffman's characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them."—New York Times Book ReviewThe Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts....

Publication Date: Aug 2011

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Fortune's Daughter

by Alice Hoffman

This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women--one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago......

Publication Date: Dec 1999

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Green Heart

by Alice Hoffman

A two-fold tale of grief and hope, loss and love, told as only Alice Hoffman can.When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and the past. Struggling to survive in a place where nothing seems to grow...

Publication Date: Feb 2012

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Second Nature

by Alice Hoffman

When Robin Moore, a divorcee and mother of a troubled teenage son, brings a stranger to her suburban home, her life changes forever as she soon begins to heal from her divorce and rediscovers love and humanity once more. Reprint. NYT. K.

Publication Date: Feb 1998

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Turtle Moon

by Alice Hoffman

The New York Times bestselling author of Second Nature and Here on Earth presents 'a captivating...truly original novel' (Cosmopolitan), the story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenage son, and the events that change their lives in ways both...

Publication Date: Jun 1993

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Blue Diary

by Alice Hoffman

Ethan Ford is a pillar of the community--which is a small, idyllic, wholesome Massachusetts town--and when he is suddenly hit with an arrest for a murder committed 15 years ago, people are stunned. Ethan admits his guilt, but claims that the crime he...

Publication Date: Aug 2002

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Practical Magic

by Alice Hoffman

Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a two-hundred-year-old family legacy they both try to escape--one through marriage, the other through running away--until they realize that their magic is a gift, rather than an affliction. Reprint.

Publication Date: Jun 1996

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Illumination Night

by Alice Hoffman

An elderly widow whose sight is failing, a young couple with an unhappy young son, a runaway teenage girl, and a lonely man who happens to be a giant, all come together on Martha’s Vineyard. On the Fourth of July, they find their lives changed,...

Publication Date: Feb 2002

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Indigo

by Alice Hoffman

13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew 7 inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plys Martha's lonely father with food and opinions about how 13 year-old girls should behave. ...

Publication Date: Jun 2003

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Incantation

by Alice Hoffman

Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and...

Publication Date: Oct 2007

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Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club)

by Alice Hoffman

The bestselling author of Turtle Moon and Practical Magic tells her most seductive and mesmerizing tale yet--the story of March Murray, who returns to her small Massachusetts hometown after nineteen years, encountering her childhood sweetheart...and...

Publication Date: Mar 1998

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The Foretelling

by Alice Hoffman

Now available in paperback, The Foretelling is a transformative story that asks many profound questions, for which there are many answers. Rain is girl of the Amazon tribe of women warriors, born in a time of blood and fear. As the future leader of...

Publication Date: Sep 2006

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Green Angel

by Alice Hoffman

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats...

Publication Date: Feb 2010

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Property of

by Alice Hoffman

When Property Of was published in 1977, Kirkus Reviews described it as "that precious commodity, the first novel of great promise." In telling the story of a young outsider who is obsessed with her gang-leader lover but unwilling to...

Publication Date: May 2009

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Illumination Night

by Alice Hoffman

"Subtle touches...make this intelligent novel shine. Ms. Hoffman knows how to tell a story."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWSet on Martha's Vineyard, here is a stunning novel that brings that beautiful island to vivid life--a novel...

Publication Date: Jul 1992

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White Horses

by Alice Hoffman

The New York Times bestselling author of Here on Earth presents a 'sexually charged...almost hypnotic'* novel about men, women, romance, and real life. (Publishers Weekly)When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless...

Publication Date: Oct 1999

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At Risk

by Alice Hoffman

In a novel the Village Voice calls 'memorable' and 'striking,' Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... 'Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending.' --Chicago Tribune ...

Publication Date: Sep 1989

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Property of

by Alice Hoffman

They are the girls she envies, tough and sultry in mascara and black leather. And they're the property of the Orphans, the gang on the Avenue led by McKay. No one knows how much she wants to belong--or how far she'll go to be with the brooding McKay,...

Publication Date: Sep 1993

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Aquamarine

by Alice Hoffman

Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There in the depths is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart: a...

Publication Date: Mar 2002

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Seventh Heaven

by Alice Hoffman

In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's husbands, wives,...

Publication Date: Apr 2003

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The Probable Future (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Alice Hoffman

Struggling to cope with her unwanted ability to see the future, Stella is forced to confront her mystical legacy when her father is jailed, wrongly accused of homicide, and Stella joins forces with her long-lost grandmother, a woman who possesses the...

Publication Date: Jun 2004