Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam Adult $17.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-399-13367-1
With this moving novel, Hoffman has written a story about a family attacked by tragedy, and has given it a larger relevance by confronting one of the most frightening issues of our times. The Farrells are a middle-class family living in a small New...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic Press $17.99 (135p) ISBN 978-0-545-14195-6
Green, whose lyrical narration was the hallmark of Hoffman's survival story Green Angel
(2003), returns in an equally spellbinding tale that emphasizes themes of rebirth. A year after Green lost her family in the fiery destruction of an...
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam $21.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-399-13720-4
Combining aspects of a suspense thriller and a romance, and including such surefire elements as an abandoned baby, a youngster on the verge of juvenile delinquency who is reformed, two dogs and a supernatural character who provides the requisite...
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam $22.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-399-13908-6
Beguiled by her seductive prose and her imaginative virtuosity, readers have always been willing to suspend disbelief and enjoy the touches of magic in Hoffman's novels ( Illumination Night ; Turtle Moon , etc). Here, credibility is stretched not by
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Hoffman's (Fireflies; The River King) novel for children focuses on two best friends who share a mysterious secret. The summer that Hailey and Claire are both 12 is bittersweet; come September, Claire will move to Florida with her grandparents.
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14313-7
Often, in her soulful novels, Hoffman (Practical Magic, etc.) lets mystical atmospherics-animals that take on superhuman qualities, intense colors and temperatures, minute vibrations in the air that signal ghosts or spirits-do all the work while her
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam $23.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-399-14599-5
Set in and around an exclusive private school in fictional Haddan, Mass., bestselling author Hoffman's (Practical Magic; Here on Earth) latest novel flows as swiftly and limpidly as the Haddan River, the town's mystical waterway. As one expects in a
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Alice Hoffman, Crown, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-39387-6
Hoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of the first settlers, among them a pragmatic English woman, Hallie, and her profligate,...
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam Adult $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-13282-7
With an eye for household details and respect for daily events, Hoffman (Fortune's Daughter unleashes the mythic forcefulness of ordinary life in this polished story of love and loneliness set on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Simon is in his...
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam $22.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-399-14055-6
Her 11th novel is Hoffman's best since Illumination Night. Again a scrim of magic lies gently over her fictional world, in which lilacs bloom riotously in July, a lovesick boy's elbows sizzle on a diner countertop and a toad expectorates a silver...
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Alice Hoffman, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-13535-4
In the full flowering of her extraordinary talent, Hoffman has produced a wise, poignant and uplifting novel luminous with the sensitive evocation of ordinary lives. The setting is a Long Island, N.Y., housing development from 1959 to 1960, a place...
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Alice Hoffman. Scribner, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9356-0
Like the museum of its title, Hoffman’s (The Dovekeepers) latest novel is a collection of curiosities, each fascinating in its own right, but haphazardly connected as a whole. New York City in 1911 is caught between its future and its past: the last
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Alice Hoffman. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-38958-7
Once again, Hoffman (Green Angel) works her magic to transport readers to a realm where enchantment intermingles with everyday realities. Sidwell, Mass., is famous for its apples, “so sweet people come from as far as New York City during the apple...
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Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9359-1
Hoffman (The Museum of Extraordinary Things) finds inspiration for her particular brand of magical realism in the Caribbean island of St. Thomas and the personal history of a nonfictional woman named Rachel Pomié, who lived on the colony in the 19th
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Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9920-9
The sweet-natured latest novel from Hoffman (The Marriage of Opposites) ambles along pleasantly enough as it
follows the recovery from grief of young Shelby Richmond. As a high school senior, Shelby is driving with her best friend Helene one snowy...
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Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3747-1
Hoffman delights in this prequel to Practical Magic, as three siblings discover both the power and curse of their magic. Susanna Owens fled her home in Massachusetts and settled in New York, where she marries and, with her husband, raises their...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-39386-9
Lyrical but atypically monotonous, bestseller Hoffman's (The Third Angel
) latest follows the dark family saga of Elv, Megan and Claire Story, sisters plagued by uncommon sadness. As a child, Elv spun fairy tales of a magical world for her sisters,...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Putnam $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-14802-6
Hyperbole is the hallmark of Hoffman's prose. As her 14th novel begins, readers meet Ethan Ford, reliable master carpenter, fire department volunteer and life-saving hero, perfect husband and all-round hunk. In a crescendo of overkill, Hoffman (T
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-439-25635-3
This slim offering finds Hoffman (Aquamarine) once again in mermaid mode. In landlocked Oak Grove—where a flood years ago has made the townspeople so fearful of water that the local swimming pool stays drained—13-year-old Martha...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic/Signature $4.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-439-09864-9
Two best friends share a mysterious secret: a mermaid at the bottom of the pool. PW
wrote, "Hoffman creates an apt metaphor for that twilight time between childhood and adolescence when magic still seems possible and friendships run deep and...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-44384-5
In lean, hypnotic prose, Hoffman (Indigo) constructs a post-apocalyptic fairy tale leavened with hope. "I was a moody, dark weed," confides Green, a shy 15-year-old with a talent for gardening who narrates the novel. Angry at being left...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-439-47414-6
Two best friends share a mysterious secret in Aquamarine: a mermaid at the bottom of the pool. Indigo
builds on the mermaid theme and "deftly interweaves themes of friendship, identity and the tension between family ties and freedom that...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-50760-8
Magic is once again knitted into the fabric of a Hoffman novel, this one revolving around a New England family living with the legacy of witchcraft. In colonial Unity, Mass., Rebecca Sparrow was tried as a witch and drowned because of her physical...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic/Signature $4.99 (84p) ISBN 978-0-439-25636-0
Three teenagers run away from a town where a flood years ago has made the people so fearful of water that the local swimming pool stays drained. "An accomplished storyteller, Hoffman deftly interweaves themes of friendship, identity and the...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Scholastic $5.99 (116p) ISBN 978-0-439-44385-2
A shy 15-year-old girl is left behind one day when her family goes into the city and perishes in a cataclysmic fire. In a boxed review, PW
described the novel as "a post-apocalyptic fairy tale leavened with hope." Ages 11-up. (June)
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Doubleday $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-50761-5
Prolific novelist Hoffman (The Probable Future
; Blue Diary;
etc.
) offers 12 lush and lilting interconnected stories, all taking place in the same Cape Cod farmhouse over the course of generations. Built during British colonial days by a man who...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-316-01018-4
In this alluring novel, Hoffman (Green Angel
) evokes the pure, strong emotions of women in an Amazon tribe, through the poetic narrative of their heir-to-the-throne. Princess Rain feels a greater kinship to horses than to humans. Shunned by her...
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Alice Hoffman, Author , read by Sandra Burr. Brilliance $29.99 (
, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4418-1251-3
, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4418-1251-3
Sandra Burr gives a tour de force performance of Hoffman's novel that tells the tale of missing children, murdered mothers and migrating sea turtles. Every May the sea turtles confuse the lights of Verity, Fla., for the moon and invade as...
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $25 (278p) ISBN 978-0-307-39385-2
In this elegant and stunning novel, veteran heartstring-puller Hoffman (Here on Earth
; Seventh Heaven
) examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect.
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-316-05878-0
In Hoffman's 19th novel, a young woman becomes the victim of the destiny she's created, leaving behind a splintered family. On the day of her father's funeral, 17-year-old Arlyn Singer decides the first man who walks down the street will
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (166p) ISBN 978-0-316-01019-1
As she did in The Foretelling
, Hoffman offers another fascinating glimpse of a past civilization—with reverberations for both past and present—in this moving novel set during the Spanish Inquisition. The year is 1500 and, in the village
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Alice Hoffman, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-316-05859-9
"Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes... burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back." Thus begins Hoffman's (Practical Magic
; Here on Earth
) stellar 18th novel about healing...
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Wayne McLoughlin, Author, Wayne McLoughlin, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0227-2
This debut children's book by adult author Hoffman (Turtle Moon), about a boy who earns the acceptance of others because he ""stays himself,"" is rather predictable and cliched. Hoffman's omniscient narrator tells of clumsy Jackie who can't ice-skate
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Wolfe Martin, Author, Yumi Heo, Illustrator , illus. by Yumi Heo. Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-09861-8
In the eerie beginning to this "werepup" tale by Hoffman (Aquamarine
) and her son, two children discover the "garden... trampled, the porch steps chewed into splinters" and a "darling puppy" in a basket. The children...
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Alice Hoffman, read by Amber Tamblyn. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-2511-9
Actress Tamblyn, known for playing the title role in the TV series Joan of Arcadia, inhabits Hoffman’s story so naturally it is almost as if it was written for her. The novel opens with a car accident involving two high school seniors on a snowy...
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Sandra Burr, Read by Brilliance Corporation $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4418-1245-2
Sandra Burr gives a tour de force performance of Hoffman's novel that tells the tale of missing children, murdered mothers and migrating sea turtles. Every May the sea turtles confuse the lights of Verity, Fla., for the moon and invade as quickly as
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Laural Merlington, Read by Nova Audio Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56740-838-6
Hoffman's chosen form of a novelistic group of short stories--all of which share the same family characters--lends itself nicely to the abridged audio format, in which the fragmentation seems a willful form of stylized narration. The audio's...
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Alice Hoffman, read by Jenna Lamia. Listening Library, , unabridged, 4 CDs, 5 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-553-55223-2
Set in a realm where enchantment intermingles with everyday realities, Hoffman’s story centers on 12-year-old Twig Fowler, her baker mother, and her older brother, who all keep to themselves in their farmhouse in Sidwell, Mass. Twig’s mother is said
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Jenna Lamia, Read by , read by Jenna Lamia. Brilliance Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-2359-4
Lamia adopts a vaguely Spanish tone for her reading of Hoffman's tale of a 16-year-old girl in 16th-century Spain who discovers she is a converso
—a Jewish convert to Christianity whose family secretly practices the Jewish faith. Lamia...
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Mare Winningham, Read by , read by Mare Winningham. Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-613-8
Winningham's narration is just right. Her pronunciation is clear but not exaggerated, and nicely combined with the rhythmic, conversational speed of a good storyteller. She has a rich voice with a good vocal range. This book is another of the...
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Nelson H. Cruikshank, Author, Howard Hoffman, Editor Archon Books $22.5 (200p) ISBN 978-0-208-02250-9
During a long, distinguished public career, Nelson Cruikshank (1902-1986) was director of the New Deal's migrant labor program, an AFL-CIO organizer-lobbyist, a leading advocate for the extension of the Social Security system and an architect of...
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Alice Hoffman, Author, Donna Bray, Editor, Steve Johnson, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0367-5
Hoffman's (Fireflies) fantasy about a girl who overcomes her fears contains a wise grandfather, a wicked circus owner, a herd of horses white as clouds and another horse the size of a Saint Bernard. Unfortunately, the abrupt transition from the...
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Alice Hoffman, Author, John Kulka, Editor, Natalie Danford, Editor Touchstone Books $25.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-684-83314-9
While it is often argued that real writers are born, not taught, this collection of stories chosen from 100 workshops goes far to disprove that shibboleth. Though the subject matter does tend to the contemporary American domestic theme, there are 22
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Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3757-0
Set in Nazi-occupied France between 1941 and 1944, Hoffman’s latest (after The Rules of Magic) is a bittersweet parable about the costs of survival and the behaviors that define humanity. The narrative follows several groups of characters: teenage...
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Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0884-7
Hoffman’s striking latest entry in her Practical Magic series (after The Rules of Magic) turns to 1664 rural England for the origin story of Maria Owens, matriarch of the series’ clan of witches. Maria is discovered as an infant by Hannah Owens, a...
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Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-982151-48-5
Hoffman concludes her Practical Magic series about the Owens family women, cursed by 17th-century ancestor Maria, with an illuminating story of their inherited witchcraft. In present-day Massachusetts, octogenarian Jet Owens sees the death watch...
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Alice Hoffman. Atria, $27.99 (250p) ISBN 978-1-982175-37-5
Hoffman (the Practical Magic series) keeps up her flair for the fantastical with this enchanting tale of a woman and her daughter living in an oppressive modern-day commune, where they find comfort in books. Ivy Jacob’s ever-disappointed mother and...
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Alice Hoffman. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-338-85694-1
In collaboration with the Anne Frank House, Hoffman (The Invisible Hour, for adults) presents a thoroughly researched fictionalized account of Anne Frank’s life. Starting in 1940 and leading up to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1942, the...
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