https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/more/rss/search?query=Hoffman%2C%20Alice&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 13:24:20 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2032112https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2032112Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2032112164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781611732573/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2614898https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2614898Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2614898164BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982175375/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2366930https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2366930Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2366930164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501137471/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2330410https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2330410Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2330410164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476799223/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C1121043https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C1121043Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1121043164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399140556/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2638283https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2638283Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2638283164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781638089100/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2552211https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2552211Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2552211164BK25th Anniversary Editionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780425190371/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2386626https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2386626Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2386626164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781683246329/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2575339https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2575339Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2575339164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501137488/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2352777https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2352777Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2352777164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781683242581/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2382557https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2382557Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2382557164BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781451617481/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2006861https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2006861Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2006861164BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476790381/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C1111774https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C1111774Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1111774164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780786205141/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.
Find your magic.

For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.

Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people's thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk.

From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Yet, the children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the memorable aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy.

Alice Hoffman delivers "fairy-tale promise with real-life struggle" (The New York Times Book Review) in a story how the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is "irresistible...the kind of book you race through, then pause at the last forty pages, savoring your final moments with the characters" (USA TODAY, 4/4 stars).]]>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3255307https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3255307Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3255307980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501137495/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is "striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose" (Entertainment Weekly).
Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain fortress in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker's wife, watched the murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior's daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power.

The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the Roman siege of Masada. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets—about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.]]>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C647701https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C647701Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/647701980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781451617498/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=*25th Anniversary Edition*—with an Introduction by the Author!
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...
“Splendid...Practical Magic is one of [Hoffman's] best novels, showing on every page her gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is.”—Newsweek
“[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible.”—Cosmopolitan]]>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C222301https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C222301Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/222301980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781440673757/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2655122https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2655122Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2655122164BKA Novel of Anne Frank, Before the Diaryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781338856941/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2462837https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2462837Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2462837164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501137570/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2189037https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2189037Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2189037164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781628990379/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C1283331https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C1283331Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1283331164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399143137/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2280905https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2280905Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2280905164BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781451693560/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2414085https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2414085Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2414085164BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780425169698/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2462753https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2462753Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2462753164LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781643584140/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2132935https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2132935Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2132935164BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781451693560/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother's act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival.

"[A] hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance, and enduring love in dark times...gravely beautiful...Hoffman the storyteller continues to dazzle." —The New York Times Book Review
At the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Her desperation leads her to Ettie, the daughter of a rabbi whose years spent eavesdropping on her father enables her to create a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Hanni's daughter, Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked.

What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never-ending.]]>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4593153https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4593153Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4593153980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501137594/MC.GIF&client=indianheadfls&type=xw12&oclc=