Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, ...

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against arm...

Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon.A young single mother is m...

Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a two-hundred-year-old family legacy they both try to escape--one through marriage, the other through running away--until they realize that their magic is a gift, rather than an afflic...

The New York Times Book Review has noted, 'Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives,' and now she casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of fami...

An elderly widow whose sight is failing, a young couple with an unhappy young son, a runaway teenage girl, and a lonely man who happens to be a giant, all come together on Martha’s Vineyard. On the Fourth of July, they find thei...

The nameless narrator of Alice Hoffman's winsome novel makes a thoughtless wish when she is eight years old. It immediately comes true, and her life is wrecked. Grown up into an emotionally dead librarian, she thinks constantly about ...

For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan Schoo...

Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon.A young single mother is m...

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * 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. " ...

For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan Schoo...

The New York Times bestselling author of Here on Earth presents a 'sexually charged...almost hypnotic'* novel about men, women, romance, and real life. (Publishers Weekly)When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearle...

Estrella deMadrigal thought she knew herself: daughter, granddaughter, sister, dearest friend, beloved. She is Star in the Night Sky, Truth in the Darkness. But truth is rare and precious in this cruel and unforgiving century in Spain...

From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, 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 wr...

The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? How do we love truly and deeply in a...

The New York Times Book Review has noted, 'Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives,' and now she casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of fami...

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 fa...

"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–wi...

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in to...

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters...

An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic—now available at a great value!Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a...

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 M...

Struggling to cope with her unwanted ability to see the future, Stella is forced to confront her mystical legacy when her father is jailed, wrongly accused of homicide, and Stella joins forces with her long-lost grandmother, a woman w...

When Property Of was published in 1977, Kirkus Reviews described it as "that precious commodity, the first novel of great promise." In telling the story of a young outsider who is obsessed with her gang-leader lover but unwi...

"Subtle touches...make this intelligent novel shine. Ms. Hoffman knows how to tell a story."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWSet on Martha's Vineyard, here is a stunning novel that brings that beautiful island to vivid life--a ...

Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon. A young single mother is...

In a novel the Village Voice calls 'memorable' and 'striking,' Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... 'Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending.' --Chicago Tribu...

From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie Knitting, a magical melding of words and yarn where the ordinary is turned into the extraordinary and where imagination becomes creation...

In this “ bewitching” (The New York Times Book Review) 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...

TheNew York Times–bestselling author and cancer survivor tells how to hold on to joy in times of sorrow in this“absolutely beautiful book” (Sue Monk Kidd).   The prize-winning author of such modern literary clas...