Katherine Howe

While clearing out her grandmother''s cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a hidden parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials.But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance''s spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost.What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must race to answer these questions - and reveal the truth about Salem''s women - before an ancient family curse once more fulfils its dark and devastating prophecy . . .Previously published in the UK as The Lost Book of Salem.

Colleen is feeling the heat. Its her final year of school, and university applications and deciphering boys texts have turned life into a pressure cooker. Colleen and her friends are expected to somehow keep it all together until they cant.The first victim is gorgeous, popular Clara who starts having loud and uncontrollable tics while her horrified classmates look on. More students follow suit with new symptoms: seizures, body vibrations, violent coughing fits, and hair loss. The media descends as school officials, angry parents and health experts scramble to find something, or someone, to blame. But there is one thing no one has factored in: the schools town was once Salem Village, the site of a similarly bizarre epidemic among teenage girls three hundred years earlier and it seems history is about to repeat itself.

It’s July in New York City, and aspiring filmmaker Wes Auckerman has just arrived to start his summer term at NYU. While shooting a séance at a psychic’s in the East Village, he meets a mysterious, i

Katherine Howe, profesora de la Universidad de Cornell y descendiente de tres brujas acusadas en los juicios de Salem de 1692, ha recogido en este libro un gran número de documentos relacionados con la brujeria y los procesos por brujeria desde finales del siglo XVI hasta principios del XIX. Empezando por un juicio en Inglaterra contra una mujer acusada de causar la muerte de un bebe y de su cuñada, porque esta la llamo puta y bruja, sigue con la Demonologia del rey Jacobo I, muy activo en la persecucion de la brujeria y responsable de una ley que dictaria el modelo judicial no solo en Inglaterra sino en las colonias norteamericanas. El panico de Salem, que llevo a la horca a veinte personas (catorce de ellas mujeres), no fue una anomalia sino la consecuencia de un largo proceso de tipificacion de la figura de la bruja y de su castigo por poner en peligro la fe y la cohesion de la comunidad. Pruebas de flotacion (sumergir a la bruja en agua, atada, para ver si se hundia o no), pruebas espectrales (visiones o sueños a los que se daba validez juridica) o la enigmatica teta de bruja (que podian tener hombres y mujeres en cualquier parte del cuerpo) se unieron a acusaciones en que la mera palabra del afectado bastaba para certificar un maleficio. El libro de las brujas repasa uno de los periodos mas oscuros de la historia a traves de una galeria de hechos y personajes escalofriante.

From a New York Times-bestselling author comes this daring account of one womans adventure among the most feared sea rovers of all time, perfect for fans of Kate Mosse and Jess KiddAn absolute page turner, full of unexpected twists and turns. Celia Rees, author of Pirates!She was one of the most terrifying seafarers of all time. This is her story.The Golden Age of Piracy is drawing to a close when Hannah Masury watches the public hanging of the infamous William Fly in a Boston town square. Rumours about the location of Flys buried treasure are rampant, and when Hannah finds a clue as to where it might be hidden, she decides its time to take the future into her own hands. Two centuries later in a dusty university archive, Professor Marian Beresford is captivated by Hannahs story and the many unanswered questions she left behind. Hannah was determined to take her secrets with her to the grave, but in Marian, she might finally have met her match. A True Account is the page-turning story of two women from two very different worlds, both shattering the rules of their own society, both willing to risk everything to forge their own adventure. A feast for the sea-loving senses. Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued brother in an elegant town house in Bostons Back Bay. Trapped in a world over which she has no control, Sybil flees for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium. But when her brother is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under mysterious circumstances and falls under the sway of a strange young woman, Sibyl turns for help to psychology professor Benton Jones, despite the unspoken tensions of their shared past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering spark flares to life, and they realize that there may be something even more magical between them than a mediums scrying glass. From the opium dens of Bostons Chinatown to the opulent salons of high society, from the back alleys of colonial Shanghai to the decks of the Titanic, The House of Velvet and Glass weaves together meticulous period detail, intoxicating romance, and a final shocking twist in a breathtaking novel that will thrill readers.Bonus features in the eBook: Katherine Howes essay on scrying; Boston Daily Globe article on the Titanic from April 15, 1912; and a Reading Group Guide and Q&A with the author, Katherine Howe.

Howe is a formidable researcher and writer, and this creepy, gripping novel is intimately layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history.The New York Times Book ReviewA chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Its senior year at St. Joans Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they cant. First its the schools queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joans buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleenwhos been reading The Crucible for extra creditcomes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true eventsfrom seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high schoolConversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, whats really happening to the girls at St. Joans?

A haunting, contemporary love story from the New York Times bestselling author of ConversionIts July in New York City, and aspiring filmmaker Wes Auckerman has just arrived to start his summer term at NYU. While shooting a seance at a psychics in the East Village, he meets a mysterious, intoxicatingly beautiful girl named Annie.As they start spending time together, Wes finds himself falling for her, drawn to her rose-petal lips and her entrancing glow. Theres just something about her that he cant put his finger on, something faraway and otherworldly that compels him to fall even deeper. Annies from the city, and yet she seems just as out of place as Wes feels. Lost in the chaos of the busy city streets, shes been searching for somethinga missing ring. And now Annie is running out of time and needs Wess help. As they search together, Annie and Wes uncover secrets lurking around every corner, secrets that will reveal the truth of Annies dark past.

While clearing out her grandmothers cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a hidden parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverances spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost. What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must race to answer these questions - and reveal the truth about Salems women - before an ancient family curse once more fulfils its dark and devastating prophecy . . .Previously published in the UK as The Lost Book of Salem

Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane returns with her dazzling new historical novel, The House of Velvet and Glass, set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.1915, and the ghosts of the dead haunt a wealthy Boston family...Sybil Allston is devastated by the recent deaths of her mother and sister aboard the Titanic. Hoping to heal her wounded heart, she seeks solace in the parlour of a medium who promises to contact her lost loved ones.But Sybil finds herself drawn into a strange new world where she can never be sure that what she sees or hears is real. In fear and desperation she turns to psychology professor Benton Jones - despite the unspoken tensions of their shared past...From the opium dens of Bostons Chinatown to the upscale salons of high society , Sybil and Benton are drawn into a world of occult magic, of truth and lies, and into a race to understand Sybils own apparent talent for scrying before it is too late.Katherine Howes The House of Velvet and Glass is a harrowing story of darkness and danger vanquished by the redemptive power of love.Praise for Katherine Howe:Spellbinding... A terrific storyDaily ExpressA transfixing tale of black magic, hauntings and real-life tricks that will keep you up all nightGlamourA brilliant take on the 17th Century Salem witch trialsMirrorKatherine Howes family has lived in the area around Salem Massachusetts for generations dating back to the 1620s. She is a descendant of two accused Salem witches - Elizabeth Proctor and Elizabeth Howe. Katherine is a PhD candidate at Boston University. She lived in Massachusetts and New York with her husband. The House of Velvet and Glass is her second novel to be published by Penguin.

A NPR Best Book of the YearThe number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family dynasty, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American storyof ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astors son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society, built the iconic Waldorf-Astoria, and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the familys story.In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in Americaoffering a window onto decades of American history.How does one of Americas greatest fortunes disappear?The Fur Trader Patriarch: The ruthless story of John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant who built an empire on beaver pelts and Manhattan real estate to become Americas first multimillionaire. The Mrs. Astor: A look inside the exclusive world of Caroline Astor, the formidable matriarch who defined and dominated New Yorks elite Four Hundred with an iron fist. From Rise to Ruin: A multi-generational family saga of ambition and reinvention, tracing the Astor money from iconic hotels to the most famous loss on the Titanic. The Last Mrs. Astor: The captivating and controversial life of Brooke Astor, from her reinvention as a celebrated philanthropist to the shocking elder abuse scandal that marked the familys final, tragic chapter.

Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling Gilded Age chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe.One of the Washington Posts Notable Works of NonfictionWhen eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his fathers small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empiresone in shipping and another in railroadsthat would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by the Commodore, subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakersthe seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Corneliuss grandson and namesake had builtthe family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.Now, the Commodores great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the riveting family saga of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the familys empire, basked in the Commodores wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.Written with a unique insiders viewpoint, this compelling biography is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.This riveting look at an American dynasty reveals:An American Dynastys Rise and Fall: Follow Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilts ruthless journey from a small boat operator to the richest man in America, and witness how his heirs spent the staggering fortune into oblivion. Old Money vs. New Money: From the hardscrabble wharves of Manhattan to lavish Fifth Avenue drawing rooms and Newport summer palaces, explore the world of Americas original new-money arrivistes. A Unique Insiders Viewpoint: Co-authored by Anderson Cooper, the Commodores great-great-great-grandson, who brings a personal perspective to the triumphs and tragedies of his legendary family. Iconic New York History: Discover the story behind legendary landmarks like The Breakers and Grand Central Terminal, and the outsized influence the Vanderbilts had on New York City and the nation.

Ésta es la historia de un misterioso libro que, de generación en generación, ha marcado las vidas de ocho mujeresextraordinarias desde finales del s. XVII hasta hoy. Connie es una joven brillante aspirante a profesora de historia en la dura y competitiva Universidad de Harvard. El verano que debe decidir el tema de su tesis doctoral, su madre le pide que vacie la deshabitada casa de su abuela, cerca de Salem, con el proposito de venderla. Alli, oculta dentro de una Biblia, Connie encuentra una llave que esconde un papel con una extraña inscripcion. La investigacion que llevara a cabo para desvelar su significado la obligara a remontarse hasta la caza de brujas de Salem, en 1692, y la conducira a un misterioso libro. Un libro que le revelara cosas sobre ella misma que nunca habria podido imaginar...

Una novel·la embruixada i meravellosament escrita que desenterra un dels períodes més fascinants i commovedors de la història americana: els judicis de les bruixes de Salem.L'estudiant de Harvard Con

El libro de las brujas repasa uno de los períodos más oscuros de la historia a través de una galería de hechos y personajes escalofriante. Katherine Howe, profesora de la Universidad de Cornell y d

Connie, alumna de Harvard, encuentra oculta una inscripción sobre las brujas de Salem, que nombra un misterioso libro. Para escribir su tesis sobre la brujería en la época colonial, necesita hallar la enigmatica obra. Su siniestro e inquietante profesor esta sospechosamente interesado, asi que ella debera utilizar su ingenio para conseguirlo: el libro le revelara cosas sobre ella misma que nunca habria podido imaginar, cambiara su vida y su destino para siempre.