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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.
The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians...
4) Just Ash
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English
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"Ash has never thought much about being intersex. But when he gets his period and his parents pressure him to 'try being a girl,' he must fight for who he really is"--
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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...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Follow the terrifying events of the 1692 Salem witch trials from the perspective of Tituba, an enslaved woman who was accused of bewitching two girls, Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams, during this harrowing, historic period. A story of speculation, mass hysteria, and survival, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into this haunting moment in American history - brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations...
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the Salem Witch Trials, a dark chapter in Massachusetts history, where the unexplained was attributed to witchcraft and those that did not conform to Puritan ideals were witches. Understand the theories as to why children and adults accused others of witchcraft and were complicit in their being hanged as witches. In the guilt-ridden aftermath of the trials, the community of Salem searched for...
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How to hang a witch volume 2
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Samantha Mather survived one curse, and now she's having recurring dreams about the Titanic, and walking the deck with first-class passengers like her aunt and uncle. Then missives from the Titanic begin finding their way to her, along with haunting visions of people who went down with the ship. Her friends in the Descendants are determined to help Sam. First they must unravel who is behind the spell that is drawing her ever further into the dream...
9) The crucible
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
11) It takes a witch
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When a wannabe witch turns up dead, witch sisters Darcy and Harper Merriweather, who have the power to grant wishes and have come to Salem, Massachusetts, to join the family business, find themselves trying to find the murderer.
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Evil Eye Concepts
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Salem was a place near and dear to Jenny Duffy and Samuel Hall. It was where they'd met on a strange and sinister case. They never dreamed that they'd be called back, and that history could repeat itself in a most macabre and terrifying fashion. But, then again, it was Salem at Halloween. Seasoned Krewe members, they still find themselves facing the unspeakable horrors in a desperate race to save each other, and perhaps even their very souls"--
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A prominent New England family suffering under a two-hundred-year-old curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death. The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after...
14) Hocus Pocus
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Disney
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
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Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Hocus Pocus: After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
The haunted mansion: A family goes to visit a mansion, with thoughts of buying it, and ends up stranded there by a freak storm. They soon find that not only does the current owner live there but so do 999 ghosts.
Halloweentown:...
16) The Awakening
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Alliance vampires volume 05
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English
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Megan O'Casey and her husband Finn still make good music together. Which is why they head to Salem, Massachusetts, Megan's hometown; booked to perform a weeklong series of concerts culminating on Halloween? But as soon as they arrive, Finn seems different; sensual beyond belief one moment; cold and ruthless the next. As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she, too, is in mortal danger.
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Connie Goodwin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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While readying her grandmother's abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking a rare artifact--a physick book--Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem's past than she could have imagined.
18) Hester: a novel
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2022.
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English
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"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...
19) Curse of Salem
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper is back with the next thrilling paranormal suspense novel in the Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series. The small town of Salem has been quiet for months-or so Bishop and his elite Special Crimes Unit believe. But then Hollis Templeton and Diana Hayes receive a warning in Diana's eerie "gray time"-a space between the world of the living and the realm of the dead-that a twisted killer is stalking Salem, bent...
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Agatha Mistery volume 10
Publisher
LaGalera
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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Vive el Halloween mas terrorifico con Agatha Mistery. El libro ideal para vivir toda una investigacion espeluznante junto a los detectives mas queridos por el publico infantil. Agatha Mistery y su primo Larry se dirigen a Salem, Massachusetts, para acudir al encuentro anual con los jovenes detectives de las mejores agencias del mundo. Esta vez, la cita tendra lugar durante la noche de Halloween en una espectacular casa colonial con un encanto antiguo...
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