Probable Future,The, Alice Hoffman

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: Practical Magic
ISBN: 0425190374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425190371
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
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Описание: 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.

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

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: Skylight Confessions
ISBN: 0099520842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099520849
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 791.00 р.
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Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: Nightbird
ISBN: 0385389612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385389617
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 735.00 р.
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Описание:

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman s bewitching "Nightbird" is perfect for ages 10-13: love and friendship empower a lonely girl to embrace her uniqueness and discover her strengths.
Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide a monster. And two hundred years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twig s family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, everything will change when the red moon rises. It s time to break the spell.
What Other Authors Are Saying
I love the way Alice Hoffman creates the most ordinary people and then turns their lives magical. . . . "Nightbird"] is like reentering a wonderful dream that you vaguely remember. Lois Lowry, two-time Newbery Medal winning author of "The Giver
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Hoffman reminds us that there are secrets everywhere . . . "Nightbird" soars.
"The New York Times"
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Alice Hoffman has a gift for melding magic and realism in a way that makes nearly anything seem possible.
"Shelf Awareness, " Starred
The mix of romance and magic is irresistible.
"Kirkus Reviews"

"From the Hardcover edition.""

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: The Story Sisters
ISBN: 0007351526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007351527
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 1451.00 р.
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Описание: A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect.

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: The Red Garden
ISBN: 0307405974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307405975
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2267.00 р.
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Описание: From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious, magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption.

" A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell."--The Washington Post

The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.

At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.

Beautifully crafted and shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: The Story Sisters
ISBN: 0307405966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307405968
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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Описание: Each of three sisters--Elv, Claire, and Meg--has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart's desire, and a demon who will not let go.

What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks.

At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of sensual longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. It confirms Alice Hoffman's reputation as "a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled" (The Chicago Tribune).

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: Blackbird House
ISBN: 0345455932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345455932
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
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Описание: With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream," (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.

In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots
arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family's lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House.

These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home.

From the writer Time has said tells "truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart" comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House.

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: The Probable Future
ISBN: 009945386X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099453864
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2111.00 р.
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Описание: Hoffman unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in this magical story about young love and old love, about making choices - usually the wrong ones - about foresight and consequences, all suffused with the haunting scent of roses and wisteria, and the hum of bees on a summer evening.

Автор: Hoffman, Alice
Название: The Ice Queen
ISBN: 0099493055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099493051
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 791.00 р.
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Описание: As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets - what turned one to ice and the other to fire. The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion, loss, second chances and the secrets that come to define us, if we`re not careful.