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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
3) The crucible
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English
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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As a wave of anti-communist investigations swept across American society during the 1950s, Miller exposed the horror of such witch-hunts by retelling the story of the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003], c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds, the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic"--
In the 1600s, Maria was abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, who recognizes that Maria has a gift, she learns about...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials... Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were...
12) Hester: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents information on the lives, behaviors, and beliefs of British colonists living in New England in 1692 in order to explain how it was possible for the people to turn against their neighbors with accusations of witchcraft.
14) Early thunder
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists.
16) The Salem witch trials: a primary source history of the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.
18) Spirit
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1892, a wealthy, seventeen-year-old married couple, Tess and Tobias Goodraven, lay ghosts to rest for the thrill of it but, separated by the terrible witch who was responsible for the Salem witchcraft horrors, they may not have strength to survive, much less help the dead.
19) The samaritan
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Book Pub
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As tensions heighten in Salem Village in 1691, young Josiah Hutchinson learns that he must rely on the assistance of family and friends as tries to help a beggar woman and her child.
20) The secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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