While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Alice Hoffman books.
- The Rules of Magic: A Novel (1) (The Practical Magic Series) (2018)
- Practical Magic (2003)
- Illumination Night (2002)
- The Dovekeepers: A Novel (2012)
- Green Heart (2012)
- Incantation (2007)
- The Red Garden (2011)
- The Marriage of Opposites (2016)
- Seventh Heaven (2003)
- Turtle Moon (1997)
- Faithful: A Novel (2017)
- The Probable Future: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) (2004)
- Blackbird House: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) (2005)
- Here on Earth (Oprah’s Book Club) (1999)
The Rules of Magic: A Novel (1) (The Practical Magic Series) (2018)
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.
Practical Magic (2003)
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.
Illumination Night (2002)
Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife&…
The Dovekeepers: A Novel (2012)
The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: “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 in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived.
Green Heart (2012)
When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and the past. Struggling to survive in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself.
Incantation (2007)
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.
The Red Garden (2011)
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.
The Marriage of Opposites (2016)
“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris.
Seventh Heaven (2003)
Nora Silk doesn’t really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She’s divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women’s apprehension evolves into admiration. The men’s lust evolves into awe. The children are drawn to her in ways they can’t explain.
Turtle Moon (1997)
When Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home—inexplicably taking along a motherless baby—his mother is perplexed, terrified, and ultimately takes off on her own journey to find him.
Faithful: A Novel (2017)
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out?
The Probable Future: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) (2004)
Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams when they sleep.
Blackbird House: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) (2005)
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.
Here on Earth (Oprah’s Book Club) (1999)
After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis—the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her—the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you completely.
Best Alice Hoffman Books Worth Your Attention
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The World That We Knew
Author(s): Alice Hoffman [Hoffman, Alice]
ID: 2423765, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Year: 2019, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
Hoffman and Abeloff’s Hematology-Oncology Review
Author(s): Claudine Isaacs, Sanjiv Agarwala, Bruce Cheson, Alice Ma, John Marshall, Naiyer Rizvi
ID: 2429708, Publisher: Elsevier, Year: 2017, Size: 6 Mb, Format: pdf
The Red Garden
Author(s): Alice Hoffman
ID: 450842, Publisher: Crown, Year: 2011, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
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