<div>A &ldquo;wondrous&rdquo; novel of fear, desire, loss, and discovery on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven (Chicago Tribune). Elizabeth Renny has only made two decisions of consequence in her seventy-plus years. While the first, marrying her husband, had adequate results, the second&mdash;deciding she could fly from her bedroom window&mdash;is less successful. But her flight sets in motion a series of events that will forever change the lives of six residents of Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard: a young boy who refuses to grow, a wife stifled by her irrational anxiety, a husband tempted by the unknown, a girl flirting with disaster, a gentle giant tortured by his size, and an old woman with nothing to lose. Praised as &ldquo;an intelligent novel&rdquo; by the New York Times and &ldquo;achingly vivid&rdquo; by Newsday, Illumination Night is a sparkling and heartbreaking narrative that explores marriage, friendship, youth, yearning, disillusionment, and desire, a book as bright and memorable as the festival of lanterns for which it is named.</div>

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Illumination Night

<div>A New York Times bestseller from the author of The Rules of Magic: In 1980s America, a family copes with their daughter&rsquo;s terrifying diagnosis. In a lovely old house near the coast of Massachusetts, the Farrells go through the routines of a typical August morning. Eight-year-old Charlie, a junior biologist and dinosaur expert, tries to collect one of his insect specimens. His sister, Amanda, a talented gymnast who at eleven years old is already saving her money to try out for the Olympics, prepares for her last meet of the summer. Ivan, their absent-minded father, is involved with his work as an astronomer. Out in the garden, his wife, Polly, wonders how she can trick her children into eating more zucchini. They are a family as unique and ordinary as any other, but their world will soon be shattered when Amanda is diagnosed with the disease that has been making headlines lately: AIDS. The new and still-mysterious ailment scares them&mdash;and their friends and neighbors as well. In an instant, everything that gave their lives meaning is ripped away, and the intimacy that once came so naturally vanishes. Too overcome with grief to turn to each other, Ivan and Polly seek solace elsewhere. Charlie is abandoned by his best friend and, for long stretches at a time, forgotten by his parents. Amanda, who holds on to her dreams so tightly, must somehow find a way to let go. Torn apart by the prospect of their loss, Polly, Ivan, and Charlie must find the courage to come back together again&mdash;for Amanda&rsquo;s sake and for their own. At Risk is an exquisite book about true sorrow and even truer devotion.</div>

At Risk

<div>A &ldquo;hypnotic&rdquo; novel of love, loss, and teenage girls finding their way on tough streets, by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Faithful (The New York Times). On the Night of the Wolf, the Orphans drive south on the Avenue, hunting their rival gang, the Pack. In the lead is McKay, their brooding, courageous President. Left waiting at the clubhouse is the Property of the Orphans, tough girls in mascara and leather who have declared their allegiance to the crew. Tonight, a new girl has joined their ranks. She waits only for McKay. Drag races, dope, knife fights in the street. To the seventeen-year-old heroine of Alice Hoffman&rsquo;s stunning first novel, the gritty world of the Avenue is beautiful and enthralling. But her love for McKay is an addiction&mdash;one that is never satisfied and is impossible to kick. Deeper and deeper she falls, until the winter&rsquo;s day when she decides to break the spell once and for all. A strikingly original story about the razor-thin line between love and loss, Property Of showcases the vivid imagery, lyricism, and emotional complexity that are the hallmarks of Alice Hoffman&rsquo;s extraordinary career. </div>

Property Of

<div>An &ldquo;intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood,&rdquo; from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Rules of Magic (People). Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since&mdash;five states in seven years. Now they are in Southern California in what they call &ldquo;earthquake weather,&rdquo; a time when anything can happen, and Jessup is restless again. This time, Rae fears, he plans to leave without her. Lila Grey is a fortune-teller. More than a quarter century ago, on a cold and icy night in New York City, she gave birth to a daughter she never saw again. Lila is determined to find her lost child, even if it means an end to her happy life with Richard, the loving husband she refuses to let into her past. It is Lila who tells Rae she is pregnant&mdash;but the other symbol she reads in Rae&rsquo;s tea leaves, she refuses to reveal. From that moment forward, their fates are inextricably linked. While Rae searches for the strength to navigate an uncertain future alone, Lila sets out to resolve her history once and for all. This luminous novel, a New York Times Notable Book, is an enthralling tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth from a writer who, in the words of Amy Tan, &ldquo;takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.&rdquo; </div>

Fortune's Daughter

<div>A New York Times bestseller about a 1950s suburb transformed by the arrival of a divorced mother: &ldquo;part American Graffiti, part early Updike&rdquo; (The New York Times). On Hemlock Street, the houses are identical, the lawns tidy, and the families traditional. A perfect slice of suburbia, this Long Island community shows no signs of change as the 1950s draw to a close&mdash;until the fateful August morning when Nora Silk arrives. Recently divorced, Nora mows the lawn in slingback pumps and climbs her roof in the middle of the night to clean the gutters. She works three jobs, and when her casseroles don&rsquo;t turn out, she feeds her two boys&mdash;eight-year-old Billy and his baby brother, James&mdash;Frosted Flakes for supper. She wears black stretch pants instead of Bermuda shorts, owns twenty-three shades of nail polish, and sings along to Elvis like a schoolgirl. Though Nora is eager to fit in on Hemlock Street, her effect on the neighbors is anything but normal. The wives distrust her, the husbands desire her, and the children think she&rsquo;s a witch. But through Nora&rsquo;s eyes, the neighborhood appears far from perfect. Behind every neatly trimmed hedge and freshly painted shutter is a family struggling to solve its own unique mysteries. Inspired by Nora, the residents of Hemlock Street finally unlock the secrets that will transform their lives forever. A tale of extraordinary discoveries, Seventh Heaven is an ode to a single mother&rsquo;s heroic journey and a celebration of the courage it takes to change. </div>

Seventh Heaven

<div>A story about the fairy-tale fantasies of girlhood and the realities of growing up by &ldquo;one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists&rdquo; (Jane Smiley, USA Today). When Teresa sleeps&mdash;sometimes for days at a time, the scent of roses surrounding her&mdash;she dreams of the Arias, outlaw riders on white steeds, who roam the desert at night. She was told about the dark-eyed horsemen by her mother, Dina, who left her own bedroom window open at night in the hopes that one would take her away from her parents&rsquo; house in Santa Fe. Teresa, who cannot find a cure for her mysterious sleeping sickness, has one true ally: her brother, Silver. Wild and handsome, Silver exerts an irresistible force over everyone he meets&mdash;women especially. He pursues a life of crime and danger, and the older he grows, the more reckless he becomes. Teresa wants to break free but is drawn back to her brother again and again, pulled by the belief that he is the night rider of her dreams. Only when she realizes that she has the strength to save herself will she finally be able to open her eyes and walk away. A lyrical blend of the mythical and the real, White Horses has been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a book that &ldquo;will reverberate in readers&rsquo; imaginations for a long time.&rdquo;</div>

White Horses

<div>&ldquo;A good, old-fashioned love story . . . Alice Hoffman&rsquo;s writing at its precise and heartbreaking best.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Things have changed in Fisher&rsquo;s Cove, the Long Island harbor town where Natalie spent her summers as a girl. The water used to be clean, and from her aunt Minnie&rsquo;s boarding house you could see all the way to Connecticut even on hazy days. Twenty years ago, Minnie never had a problem finding lodgers&mdash;but now everyone wants to be in Montauk or the Hamptons. The biggest change of all, though, is the nuclear power plant under construction on Angel Landing. Natalie&rsquo;s boyfriend, Carter, is leading a protest against the plant, and despite the fact that he is more devoted to his environmental work than he is to her, she has followed him to Fisher&rsquo;s Cove. During the days, she works as a therapist at a local counseling center; in the evenings, she ignores her aunt&rsquo;s disapproval as she waits for Carter to call. But after an explosion lights up the night sky above Angel Landing, Natalie&rsquo;s world is turned upside down. Into her office walks a man with an incredible confession to make, and the more she listens, the more Natalie begins to question the direction of her own life. The conclusions she draws&mdash;about passion, commitment, and what her heart truly wants&mdash;will lead her to a love she never imagined possible. Told with grace, charm, and wit, Angel Landing is a captivating romance and one of Alice Hoffman&rsquo;s most delightful novels. </div>

Angel Landing

<div>From the author of The Rules of Magic: A novel of a Long Island family matriarch and her namesake granddaughter who discover the power the past holds over their present. Esther the Black is eighteen years old and ready to leave the Compound, the collection of cottages on the North Shore of Long Island where she has lived all her life. But as July turns to August and her family braces for the height of Drowning Season, she realizes that she may not be able to escape her family&rsquo;s legacy. Her father will find a way through the locked sea-wall gate and try to drown himself in the harbor, her mother will be too hung over to leave her cottage for days at a time, and her grandmother will refuse to say a single kind word. Esther the White left home when she was just a girl, fleeing her abusive parents across a frozen Russian river with a pocketful of stolen jewels. Life has taught her to be cold and unyielding, but in the heat of another fraught summer at the Compound, she feels her resolve melting away. Cohen, the landscaper and chauffeur responsible for keeping her son out of the water, looks at her with a desire she finds harder and harder to resist. Her granddaughter&rsquo;s name may be an insult to tradition, but does that mean the poor girl should never feel her grandmother&rsquo;s love or know her story? Graceful, haunting, and wise, The Drowning Season &ldquo;casts the spell of all great fairy tales. It takes daily life and transforms it into myth as we watch&rdquo; (Chicago Sun-Times). </div>

The Drowning Season

<div>New York Times Bestseller: A lyrical, suspenseful coming-of-age story based on Greek myths of the Amazons, woman warriors living near the Black Sea. Born out of sorrow in an ancient time of blood and war, Rain is a girl marked by destiny. Her mother, Alina, is the proud queen of a tribe of female warriors, yet she refuses to touch or even look at her only daughter. So Rain draws on the strength and knowledge of her Amazon sisters to learn the ways of her people: how to carve spoons out of bones, ride her white horse as fiercely as a demon, and shoot an arrow straight into the heart of an enemy. Determined to win her mother&rsquo;s love and take her rightful place as the next queen, Rain becomes a brave and determined fighter. But the dream of a black horse clouds her future, portending death. As one devastating battle follows the next, Rain hopes for a different life for her tribe beyond never-ending bloodshed. Peace, mercy, and love, however, are forbidden words in her language&mdash;can Rain teach her sisters to speak in a new tongue before it&rsquo;s too late? Inspired by Greek legends and recent archaeological discoveries in Russia and Ukraine, The Foretelling is a breathtaking achievement from the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers. </div>

The Foretelling

<div>Four acclaimed novels by &ldquo;a born storyteller,&rdquo; the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Rules of Magic and The Dovekeepers (Entertainment Weekly). One of today&rsquo;s most beloved authors of lyrical fiction with a touch of magic, Alice Hoffman boasts a body of work that has been praised by readers and critics from the very beginning. This collection includes her first novel, plus three more of her outstanding tales. Property Of: Hoffman&rsquo;s debut about teenage girls in mascara and leather and their attraction to local toughs is &ldquo;a remarkably envisioned novel, almost mythic in its cadences&rdquo; (The New York Times). The Drowning Season intertwines the stories of two women named Esther: a granddaughter, who yearns to escape the Long Island shore and the coldness of the family matriarch; and her grandmother, who fled her abusive parents in Russia decades before. This novel &ldquo;casts the spell of all great fairy tales. It takes daily life and transforms it into myth as we watch&rdquo; (Chicago Sun-Times). Fortune&rsquo;s Daughter: A New York Times Notable Book, this luminous novel of a restless young traveler and a fortune-teller with a secret is a tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth from a writer who, in the words of Amy Tan, &ldquo;takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.&rdquo; At Risk is a New York Times bestseller that &ldquo;will leave few dry eyes&rdquo; (Library Journal). In 1980s America, a family copes with their daughter&rsquo;s terrifying AIDS diagnosis.</div>

The Collected Novels Volume One

<div>Four lyrical and unforgettable tales from one of our &ldquo;most interesting novelists&rdquo;&mdash;including the New York Times bestseller, Seventh Heaven (Jane Smiley). As Newsweek said of her novel Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman has a &ldquo;gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is.&rdquo; Whether in an ancient tribe of female warriors or a sleepy Long Island suburb in the late 1950s, the novels in this collection carve out a piece of that uniquely Hoffmanesque landscape&mdash;somewhere between magic and reality, hope and disappointment, the mythical and the mundane&mdash;where we are surprised but delighted to rediscover mercy and our humanity. The Foretelling: This young adult New York Times bestseller is the &ldquo;spare, compelling coming-of-age story&rdquo; of Rain, born out of sorrow but destined to lead her tribe of Amazon warriors (Kirkus Reviews). Determined to win her mother&rsquo;s love and take her rightful place as the next queen, Rain becomes a brave and skilled fighter. But the dream of a black horse clouds her future, portending death. Peace, mercy, and love are forbidden words in her people&rsquo;s language&mdash;can Rain teach her sisters to speak in a new tongue before it&rsquo;s too late? &ldquo;Alluring . . . Hoffman&rsquo;s prose eloquently expresses the beliefs and rituals of a lost civilization and offers a sympathetic portrait of a young leader who chooses kindness over cruelty.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly White Horses: A &ldquo;sexually charged . . . almost hypnotic&rdquo; story about the fairy-tale fantasies of girlhood and the realities of growing up (Publishers Weekly). When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of fearless heroes on white horses, the romantic outlaws who populated the stories her mother told her. As an adult, she is irresistibly drawn to her brother, Silver, even as he recklessly pursues a life of crime and danger, captivated by the belief that he may be the night rider of her dreams. &ldquo;Haunting . . . Alice Hoffman is a daring and able writer.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker Angel Landing: An explosion at a nuclear power plant under construction on Angel Landing changes the lives of Natalie, a therapist; her activist boyfriend, Carter; her eccentric aunt Minnie; and the man who walks into her office with an incredible confession to make. &ldquo;Alice Hoffman&rsquo;s writing at its precise and heartbreaking best.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Seventh Heaven: In this New York Times bestseller, the arrival of a free-thinking divorced mother, Nora Silk, and her two young sons transforms a Long Island suburb during the summer of 1959, in a novel that&rsquo;s &ldquo;part American Graffiti, part early Updike&rdquo; (The New York Times). &ldquo;Before you know it, you&rsquo;re half in love with the ordinary people who inhabit this book; you&rsquo;re seduced by their susceptibility to the remarkable.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

The Collected Novels Volume Two

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and cancer survivor tells how to hold on to joy in times of sorrow in this &ldquo;absolutely beautiful book&rdquo; (Sue Monk Kidd). The prize-winning author of such modern literary classics as Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, and The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman is also a cancer survivor. In Survival Lessons, she shares her transformative journey, showing us how to re-envision our own lives and relationships with our friends and family, and the significance of the everyday choices we make. Sorrow and joy are both part of the human experience, and the beauty of the world is easy to overlook during periods of crisis, illness, or loss. Here, Hoffman offers wit, wisdom, and comfort in &ldquo;an optimistic instruction manual [for] anyone struggling with self-care in a time of trouble&rdquo; (Story Circle Book Reviews). &ldquo;In this gem of a book, Alice Hoffman acknowledges the sorrows of life, while reminding us of its joys. Survival Lessons is filled with love, insight, and lots of practical advice&mdash;including a crazy-good brownie recipe.&rdquo; &mdash;Will Schwalbe, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club &ldquo;Hoffman&rsquo;s storytelling artistry enlivens each intimate, thoughtfully distilled, charming, and nurturing lesson in living.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;[Survival Lessons] is not about [Hoffman&rsquo;s] breast cancer per se but about making choices that will improve readers&rsquo; lives and relationships and remind them &lsquo;of the beauty of life.&rsquo;&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;Full of smart intentions and kind reminders . . . Uplifting advice we&rsquo;ll gladly take.&rdquo; &mdash;Better Homes &amp; Gardens</div>

Survival Lessons

<div>A New York Times bestseller—now a major motion picture. A luminous tale of nostalgia and enchantment, for readers both young and old. Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There in the depths is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart: a mermaid named Aquamarine who has left her six sisters to search for love on land. Now, as this mythological yet very real being starts to fade in the burning August sun, a rescue is begun. On the edge of growing up, during a summer that is the hottest on record, Hailey and Claire are discovering that life can take an unpredictable course, friendship is forever, and magic can be found in the most unexpected places. “This spare, haunting novella . . . is a lovely introduction to the author’s storytelling genius and matter-of-fact lyrical style.” —The New York Times Book Review “Hoffman creates an apt metaphor for that twilight time between childhood and adolescence when magic still seems possible and friendships run deep and true.” —Publishers Weekly “In this small, spacious book, Hoffman’s spare words reveal the magic and the gritty realism in daily life, ‘somewhere between laughter and a wave breaking.’” —Booklist “This book has some wonderful elements—there is some vivid imagery, especially when it comes to the setting, with its waves of heat and air of decay.” —School Library Journal</div>

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