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Books with author Alice Goffman

  • Seventh Heaven

    Alice Hoffman

    Hardcover (Putnam Pub Group, March 15, 1990)
    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. And everyone on this little street in 1959 Long Island seems to sense the possibilities and perils of a different kind of future when they look at Nora Silk...This extraordinary novel by the author of The River King and Local Girls takes us back to a time when the exotic both terrified and intrigued us, and despite our most desperate attempts, our passions and secrets remained as stubbornly alive as the weeds in our well-trimmed lawns.
  • Seventh Heaven

    Alice Hoffman

    Mass Market Paperback (Fawcett, July 30, 1991)
    "SEVENTH HEAVEN confirms her place as one of the finest writers of her generation."NEWSWEEKNora is ahead of her time. A single mother in 1950s suburbia, she's strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious. Everyone in town is touched by her, and in the mirror of her magnetism, people see themselves as never before. With Nora's courageous image before them, they begin to ask themselves questions they had never asked--finding answers they had never dared to imagine...."Brilliant and astonishing...Suffused with magic."COSMOPOLITAN
  • The Foretelling

    Alice Hoffman

    Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Sept. 6, 2006)
    A coming-of-age story that pierces the soul and heals the spirit, this is the tale of the future leader of the Amazon women warriors. Rain must hold fast to her inner warrior, but she is startled and mystified by the first stirrings of mercy towards the enemy.
  • Aquamarine And Indigo - Water Tales

    Alice Hoffman

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, March 1, 2003)
    Best-selling author Alice Hoffman's breathtaking novellas in one beautiful mass market editionFriendships are forever. Love knows no bounds. The supernatural graces the everyday in unexpected ways. These themes have made Alice Hoffman a cherished best selling author across the country. Now, with AQUAMARINE and INDIGO, she gives us wonderful magic realism for all ages. Unforgettable stories of love, loss, hope, and amazement -- in one mass market volume.
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  • Seventh Heaven

    Alice Hoffman

    Hardcover (Putnam Adult, Aug. 17, 1990)
    During the steamy summer of 1959, a sleepy Long Island suburban community is transformed by the arrival of Nora Silk, an attractive young divorcee, and her two young sons
  • Fireflies: A Winter's Tale

    Alice Hoffman

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc, March 15, 1999)
    Alice Hoffman reveals the magic in everyday life in her first book for children. Bumbling Jackie Healy becomes an unexpected hero when the fireflies fail to show up on the first of May and his town is frozen in endless winter. Age 5-8.
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  • The Rules of Magic

    Alice Hoffman

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, Jan. 1, 2018)
    For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.
  • Green Heart

    Alice Hoffman

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 1, 2012)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Grief stricken after the devastating loss of her family in a disaster, 15-year-old Green retreats into an untended garden until a series of mysterious encounters help her to heal and relearn lessons of love, hope and magic.
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  • The World That We Knew

    Alice Hoffman

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, Dec. 1, 2019)
    In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but itΒ’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked.
  • Incantation

    Alice Hoffman

    Hardcover (Little, Brown and Company, Jan. 1, 2006)
    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. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. Infused with the rich context of history and faith, in her most profoundly moving work to date, Alice Hoffman's first historical novel is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance.
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  • Incantation

    Alice Hoffman

    Hardcover (Little, Brown and Company, Oct. 4, 2006)
    Hiding her faith in kabbalah during a time in Spain when living openly as a Jew was a dangerous thing to do, Estrella struggles with her identity and her faith as events unfold around her that force her to come to terms with who she really wants to be in life.
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  • Incantation

    Alice Hoffman

    eBook (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Oct. 1, 2007)
    Bestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth century.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. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences.Winner of numerous "best book" citations and infused with the rich context of history and faith, Incantation is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance that Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry described as "Magical and spellbinding...Painful and exquisitely beautiful."
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