Best Alice Hoffman Novels - April 2024

The Rules of Magic: A Novel (The Practical Magic Series)

An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s though... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501137484
• ASIN: 1501137484
• ISBN: 1501137484
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Illumination Night: A Novel

• ASIN: B00N5E57X8
• ASIN: B00N5E57X8
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

At Risk: A Novel

• ASIN: B00N5E583M
• ASIN: B00N5E583M
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Faithful: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, fille... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476799229
• ASIN: 1476799229
• ISBN: 1476799229
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Practical Magic

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic and The World That We Knew.For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. Bu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425190374
• ASIN: 0425190374
• ISBN: 0425190374
• Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
• Size: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Dovekeepers: A Novel

The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451617488
• ASIN: 1451617488
• ISBN: 1451617488
• Brand: Scribner Book Company
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Drowning Season: A Novel

• ASIN: B00N5E57MO
• ASIN: B00N5E57MO
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Seventh Heaven: A Novel

• ASIN: B00N5E580K
• ASIN: B00N5E580K
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Once Upon a River: A Novel

• ASIN: 0743298071
• ASIN: 0743298071
• ISBN: 0743298071
• Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel

The “spellbinding” (People, 4 stars), New York Times bestseller from the author of The Dovekeepers: an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affair—“an enchanting love story rich with history and a sense of place” (USA TODAY).Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman and the Butterfly Girl. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451693575
• ASIN: 1451693575
• ISBN: 1471112152
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Ice Queen: A Novel

From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks a strange and powerful new beginning. She goes in search of Lazarus Jones, a fellow survivor ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316154385
• ASIN: 0316154385
• ISBN: 0316154385
• Brand: Hoffman, Alice
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743496736
• ASIN: 0743496736
• ISBN: 9780743496735
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

The Marriage of Opposites

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451693605
• ASIN: 1451693605
• ISBN: 1451693605
• Brand: Hoffman Alice
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Fortune's Daughter: A Novel

• ASIN: B00N5E57E2
• ASIN: B00N5E57E2
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Storyteller

An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the “amazingly talented writer” (Huffington Post) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult.Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439102775
• ASIN: 1439102775
• ISBN: 1439102775
• Brand: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
• Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

The Alice Network

"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French

• UPC: 55463396
• Rating: 4.13

The Rules of Magic : A Novel - Hardcover

"The prequel to Alice Hoffman's PRACTICAL MAGIC, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their

• UPC: 55801285
• Rating: 4.4

The Alice Network

9781432845711

• UPC: 56142840
• Rating: 4.13

What Alice Forgot

Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst

• UPC: 17251748
• Rating: 4.09

What Alice Forgot

9780451490445

• UPC: 543855905
• Rating: 4.09

American Princess : A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

9780451490902

• UPC: 723438634
• Rating: 4.333

Still Alice

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As

• UPC: 10272158
• Rating: 4.453

The Truth About Alice : A Novel

When ugly rumors and lies about Alice Franklin start after one of the guys she allegedly slept with at a party dies in a car crash, questions about truth arise in her small

• UPC: 43296694
• Rating: 3.684

The Museum of Extraordinary Things : A Novel

The daughter of a curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer, who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community, has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle

• UPC: 37783486
• Rating: 3.895

The Dovekeepers: A Novel, Hoffman, Alice

The Dovekeepers: A Novel, Hoffman,

• UPC: 16384997
• Rating: 3.986