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Woodbridge Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Anne Yancy is a young vagrant who, despite suffering abuse all of her life, has grown strong and determined even as she secretly harbors a deep longing to belong. Nathan Woodbridge is a rich, Harvard-educated Puritan. Set in the year after the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Blood, Flesh, And Flame is the story of a Puritan town under attack. Anne knows the source. Nathan has no patience for superstition or anything smacking of the paranormal yet is assigned...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In her luminous new novel, Bharati Mukherjee creates a vivid, complex tale about the dislocation and transformation that arise in the face of a meeting of cultures: the terrain she has so brilliantly made her own in her acclaimed novels and stories. Here, in The Holder of the World, we witness an unlikely and intriguing meeting of two worlds, the Puritan American and the Mughal Indian. In a startling commingling of history and imagination, Mukherjee...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the Puritans in New England during the 17th and 18th centuries, including their religion and views on the supernatural, working and home life, health and medicine, what it was like to grow up Puritan, and the legacy they left for future generations.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Island that Disappeared tells, for the first time, the story of the passengers aboard the Mayflower's sister ship (the Seaflower) who in 1630 founded a rival Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence--so small it doesn't appear on most maps. Chaos ensued, and the great experiment failed. One-hundred years later the disaster repeated itself. Travelling to the island today, Tom Feiling finds a new mix of Puritans and pirates...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village, where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But when four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, Deliverance finds herself caught up in the ensuing drama of the trials. And life in Salem is never the same.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sarah Wright and her father Ephraim move to Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1692, where they witness the Salem witchcraft hysteria, during which Ephraim is arrested and Sarah must try to help him escape from jail.
32) The Sacrifice
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
Author
Publisher
Ace
Language
English
Description
"A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. The daughter of an union with an outsider that cast her once-proud family into disgrace, Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means - and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? What Vowell discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoe-buckles-and-corn reputation might suggest.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1954
Language
English
Description
In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized episode from the life of Anne Hutchinson, who arrived with her family in Massachusetts in 1634, but was soon banished for holding religious meetings and teaching ideas with which Puritan ministers disagreed.
40) The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: a primary source investigation into the 1629 charter
Author
Publisher
Rosen Primary Source
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
This book traces the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and discusses the background, development, and impact of the 1629 Charter.
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