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In January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to suffer from inexplicable fits. Seventeen months later, after legal action had been taken against 144 people, 20 of them put to death, the ignominious Salem witchcraft trials finally came to an end. Mary Beth Norton gives us a unique account of the events at Salem, helping us to understand them as they were understood by those who lived through the frenzy. Describing the situation...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of-and reactions to-Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Virginia's governor. By contrast, when...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A book on the American Revolution that looks at the critical "long year" of 1774, and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battle of Lexington and Concord."--
11) The Borrowers
Author
Language
English
Description
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the author.
13) Witch hunt
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to Colonial New England for a fresh look at the infamous events of Puritan Salem.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1967]
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
180, 215, 191, 192 p. illus. (part col.) 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collected adventures of the tiny people who call themselves borrowers. Includes: The Borrowers, The Borrowers afield, The Borrowers afloat, The Borrowers aloft.
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Publisher
Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Celebrating a century of Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lively and evidence-based argument that a whole food diet is essential for good mental health. Food has power to nourish your mind, supporting emotional wellness through both nutrients and pleasure. In this groundbreaking book, journalist Mary Beth Albright draws on cutting-edge research to explain the food/mood connection. She redefines "emotional eating" based on the science, revealing how eating triggers biological responses that affect humans'...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York City and New Jersey on the cusp of the financial crisis, Ghosts of Bergen County is a literary mystery with supernatural elements. Gil Ferko is a private-equity lieutenant who commutes to Manhattan from the New Jersey suburbs. His wife, Mary Beth, has become a shut-in since a hit-and-run accident killed their infant daughter. When Ferko reconnects with Jen Yoder, a former high school classmate, Jen introduces him to heroin. As his...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
576 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
From people who value stories and songs from literary traditions that are as encompassing and intricate as those of Europe, Reinventing the Enemy's Language is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect the poetry, fiction, prayer and memoir from Native American women. It is about the process of writing and speaking that sheds light on what it means to be an Indian woman at the end of the century, as many nations - including the United...
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