Veteran heartstring-puller Hoffman examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect--"Publishers Weekly."
The story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenaged son, and the events that change their lives in ways both simple and extraordinary. When Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home--inexplicably taking along a motherless baby--his mother is perplexed and terrified. She takes off on a journey of her own to find him. Her pursuit, and what ...
A family is shattered when one of three sisters dies tragically in an automobile accident. How the family survives--separates, reconfigures, and reconciles--is at the heart of this exquisite exploration of the ties that bind.
Two orphaned sisters are raised in a small town by their aunts--women who carry on the family tradition of witchcraft. In later years, the magic they learned as children comes in handy during a family crisis.
A conventional suburban woman becomes involved with a semi-wild man she picks up and brings home. Coping meanwhile with divorce and a rebellious teenage son, she is forced to change her ideas about her life and the world she has taken for granted for so many years.
A professor's wife named March Murray travels from California to her hometown in Massachusetts to attend the funeral of the woman who helped raise her after her mother died. While there, she becomes passionately involved with her old flame, Hollis, an abandoned child her family took in as a boarder. Now wealthy, Hollis has waited all these years ...
Three women with extrasensory powers are featured in Hoffman's 16th novel: young Stella can see into the future; her mother, Jenny, can see into people's dreams; and Jenny's mother, Elinor, can always spot a lie.
In this powerful, mystical young adult novel imbued with magical underpinnings, teenage Rain finds that her own path diverges from what her fierce Amazon tribe expects of her. A tribe of powerful warrior women who ride horses and keep bees on the steppes near the Black Sea, the Amazons must often defend their territory, and battle is a way of life ...
When her family is killed in a fire that destroys an entire city, a 15-year-old girl named Green struggles to find a way to survive. Bitter and angry, Green retreats into a private world but begins to find a way to heal when she befriends some others who desperately need her help and friendship. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2003 by ...
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 another miraculous event takes place: she is struck by lightning, survives, and is changed, utterly, ...
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 mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her ...
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 committed so long ago should not now be held against his exemplary record. Many of his fellow ...
In a town once nearly destroyed by a great flood, water is the enemy. Thirteen-year-old Martha Glimmer, her mother dead, flees her home with her two best friends, Trout and Eel, who are the sons of a mermaid.
Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love. But fate played a trick on her the night John Moody knocked on her door to ask for directions. Arlyn and John are complete opposites, but are drawn together like magnets even when it becomes clear that theyll bring each other nothing but grief. Sam, their son, is a brilliant artist given to self ...
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, partly by magic, partly through the relationships that develop among them.
Hoffman's novel tells the story of two women. Rae is pregnant, and lonely, abandoned by her lover; Lily is a fortune teller whose life has ben haunted by the daughter taken from her years ago-and whom she is now determined to find as she relives the sorrows of her past through her friendship with Rae.
An eleven-year-old girl from a middle-class family becomes ill with AIDS, and her family must confront a staggering variety of related issues, fears, and horrors as a result.
Washington Irving's best-known collection comprises one of the first great works of American literature. Through a variety of genres - story, essay, travelogue, folklore - Irving crafted many of the characters and fables that Americans still love, from Rumplestiltskin to Ichabod Crane.
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 a Holocaust survivor, a one-legged man, and a small boy--the house plays a major role.
Available in trade paperback for the first time, here is the brilliant story of Esther the White, a Russian emigre who chooses to live cut off from normal human experience. And only by calling upon all the healing powers of love can the members of Esther's family make peace with themselves and each other.
PROPERTY OF is a novel about a young woman who is obsessed with her gang-member boyfriend. Subscribing to his values as she sinks into his world of drugs and violence, she is in danger of losing her identity, or possibly of finding a new and meaningful one.
Nora Silk moves to a Long Island suburb in 1959, and the place will never be the same. An outrageously unconventional single mother, Nora exhibits a courage and freedom that the suburbanites she befriends have never encountered before, and her example forces them to examine their lives and face their limitations.
Teresa, an incest victim, grows up hearing her mother's highly romantic prediction that she will be swept off her feet by the man of her dreams. As an adult, and in the context of her difficult childhood and subsequent struggles, she discovers just how destructive those fantasies have been.
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