Новинки Кэтрин Хоу

«Книга ведьм» содержит в себе все подробности процессов над женщинами, обвиненными в колдовстве: рассказы о ведьмах, начиная со средневековья и заканчивая временами колониальной Америки, руководство по их истреблению, написанному королем Яковом I в 1597 году, судебные документы с салемских процессов над ведьмами 1692 года, газетные вырезки и многое другое.
Это собрание исторических рассказов, которое проливает свет на реальность, стоящую за легендами, и уникальный экскурс в самую темную историю английского и североамериканского колдовства, ужасающий, интригующий и восхищающий.

"Книга ведьм" содержит в себе все подробности процессов над женщинами, обвиненными в колдовстве: рассказы о ведьмах, начиная со средневековья и заканчивая временами колониальной Америки, руководство по их истреблению, написанному королем Яковом I в 1597 году, судебные документы с салемских процессов над ведьмами 1692 года, газетные вырезки и многое другое.

Это собрание исторических рассказов, которое проливает свет на реальность, стоящую за легендами, и уникальный экскурс в самую темную историю английского и северо-американского колдовства, ужасающий, интригующий и восхищающий.

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.

When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s 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 empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that 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 Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.

Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s 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 insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

Чарли Хольмберг "Дым и Дух"
Сэндис — вассал могучего духа седьмого уровня. Таких, как она, считают одержимыми. И ценят, как целое состояние. Рон — мошенник и вор с чарующей улыбкой. Владелец артефакта, дарующего бессмертие. Его работа — совершать невозможное. Что, если в городе, где с каждым днем ведовство проникает в мир, а оккультники призывают невообразимых чудовищ, Сэндис и Рон станут союзниками?

Cи Джей Брайтли "Повелитель сновидений"
Ненавижу лазанью. Ненавижу быть подростком. Ненавижу свой характер. Я должна отпустить свои страхи и отправиться в путешествие в Подгорное королевство. Здесь редко бывают случайности. Но именно я, как говорят местные сверхъестественные существа, которых и не представляла себе раньше, могу помочь решить исход противостояния Благого и Неблагого дворов. Найти замок в самом центре города. И молодого фейри, заточенного в темнице самого глубокого его подземелья. Освободить его. Вручить королю из кошмаров власть над собой... И по уши влюбиться. Деревья перешептываются над моей головой. Зеленые глаза в полумгле следят нами. Возможно все. Но все не то, чем кажется.

Дебора Хьюитт "Полуночник"
Алиса Уиндем боится птиц. Но получает странный подарок от старушки, скончавшейся прямо на ее руках. Невзрачное перо сиелулинту, полуночника. Теперь Алиса — птицелов, и знает, что может читать души как раскрытую книгу. Когда лучшая подруга Алисы попадает в автокатастрофу, она должна проникнуть в Обитель Смерти, чтобы спасти ее. Добраться до Черного зверинца, где находят кров полуночники, если души их владельцев отлетают прочь. И украсть душу-птицу у самого Повелителя мертвых.

Кэтрин Хоу "Дочери Темперанс Хоббс"
Конни Гудвин – эксперт по разрушенному колдовством прошлому Америки. Молодой профессор из Бостона, она построила успешную карьеру, изучая историю магии и разоблачая угрозы общества в отношении тех, кто владел искусством чародейства. Конни – прямой потомок женщины, которую судили как ведьму в Салеме. Что, если ее способности были намного опаснее, чем то известно исторической летописи? И что за тайна скрыта за смертельным проклятием всего ее рода?

Конни Гудвин — эксперт по разрушенному колдовством прошлому Америки. Молодой профессор из Бостона, она построила успешную карьеру, изучая историю магии и разоблачая угрозы общества в отношении тех, кто владел искусством чародейства.
Конни — прямой потомок женщины, которую судили как ведьму в Салеме. Что, если ее способности были намного опаснее, чем то известно исторической летописи? И что за тайна скрыта за смертельным проклятием всего ее рода?

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, 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. There’s just something about her that he can’t put his finger on, something faraway and otherworldly that compels him to fall even deeper. Annie’s from the city, and yet she seems just as out of place as Wes feels. Lost in the chaos of the busy city streets, she’s been searching for something—a missing ring. And now Annie is running out of time and needs Wes’s help. As they search together, Annie and Wes uncover secrets lurking around every corner, secrets that will reveal the truth of Annie’s dark past.

A chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America

From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart; Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches, this volume provides a unique tour through the darkest history of English and North American witchcraft.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible.

It’s senior year at St. Joan’s 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 can’t.

First it’s the school’s 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. Joan’s 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 Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes 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 events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion 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, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s?

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 Boston's 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 medium's scrying glass.

From the opium dens of Boston's 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.

Наши дни причудливо переплетаются с концом XVII века. Видения на грани безумия или это дар ясновидения? Где происходят все эти события - в сознании историка Конни Гудвин, все глубже погружающейся в атмосферу салемских процессов, или в реальности? Конни пытается прояснить историю "малоизвестной ведьмы Салема" Деливеренс Дейн и поначалу уверенна, что ее интерес к судьбе молодой знахарки, казненной на виселице в 1692 году, носит чисто научный характер. Но постепенно она понимает: между ней и Деливеренс установилась некая связь, которая может навеки изменить её жизнь - или попросту стоить ей жизни.

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 . . .

"Have you not considered the distinct possibility that the accused were simply guilty of witchcraft?"

Connie Goodwin thinks her academic advisor is teasing her; she has mastered the scholarship surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692 and knows the question he poses is preposterous. She never suspects that answering it will alter everything she knows about the past, her family, and the professor himself.

Interweaving two narratives, one set in 1991 and one set three centuries earlier, Katherine Howe's debut novel is a marvel of invention and historical reconstruction. The author employs her training as a historian to vividly depict the realities of 17th-century Salem, dramatizing the plight of the unfortunate victims as they fall prey to the mania of their accusers. But it is the leap of imagination by which she connects Connie to that distant past that turns The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane into a bewitching reading experience.

Sent by her mother to prepare her long-deceased grandmother's home for sale, Connie finds a decrepit dwelling filled with venerable oddities, including a collection of ancient bottles filled with peculiar liquids and powders. On her first night there, Connie chances on a crumbling bit of paper, bearing the words "Deliverance Dane," that has been carefully hidden inside a key tucked between the pages of a 300-year-old family Bible. Combing the local church registry for traces of this mysterious name, Connie strikes up an acquaintance with Sam, a steeplejack engaged in the church's preservation. Together they piece together Deliverance's tragic story and learn of her precious book of spells and recipes for healing potions. When a series of sinister events threaten Sam's life, Connie's search for the book is transformed from scholarly pursuit to a matter of life and death - and love.

While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a 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.

Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America—especially women’s home recipes and medicines—and by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows. When a hint from her mother and clues from her research lead Connie to the shocking realization that her partner’s life is in…