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Wisniewski, David.

Summary: A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1996

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 WIS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 WIS

Light, Kate

Summary: "The Salem witch trials marked one of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In 1692, two young children were accused of being bewitched and were arrested. More than 150 arrests occurred over the next two months, and a special court was created to try the cases. A total of 20 people were found guilty of being witches, and all of them were hanged. Inside this compelling volume, readers are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LIG

Stewart, Hilary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 731.7 STE

Stewart, Hilary

Summary: Clear and lively descriptive information on 110 easily accessible poles in outdoor locations in coastal British Columbia and Alaska, each with a drawing. Introductory chapters give background (with photos) on their making, history, and lore. A well-researched and nicely put together guide.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 731.7 STE

Francis, Richard

Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRA

Fels, Tony

Summary: In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post{u2013}World War II era up through the present. Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 FEL

Bridgewater, Alan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 730.028 BRI

Halpin, Marjorie M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of British Columbia Press 1981

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.4 HAL

Baker, Emerson W.

Summary: "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 BAK

Starkey, Marion Lena.

Summary: This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 STA

Takei, Hiroyuki.

Summary: The Golem runs out of energy, so Dr. Munzer wants to command it to self-destruct. Then Little Opacho shows up, bearing a message that Yoh must return to the Shaman Fight, or Hao will destroy both the Golem and the kids.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009

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Rea, Amy C.

Summary: "Offers readers a captivating look into the races between different groups of people to reach the North and South Poles first. Learn about how these explorers handled the extreme weather and why they risked their lives to accomplish their goal"-- www.childsworld.com

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.8 REA

Loh-Hagan, Virginia

Summary: "Would you have survived the Salem witch trials? Make decisions and tally your score to find out. Written at a lower reading level with considerate text, these high maturity books are sure to grab struggling readers as they engage and play along. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LOH

LaPlante, Eve

Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAP

Hill, Frances

Summary: "An entertaining and suspenseful drama that is also a cautionary tale for our times."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 HIL

Holub, Joan

Summary: Describes the events of the seventeenth-century Salem witchcraft trials, recounting the most notable cases and discussing the way the trials were conducted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345 HOL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What Holub

O'Reilly, Bill

Summary: O'Reilly revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 ORE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 973 ORE

Roach, Marilynne K.

Summary: The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of original archival research (including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents), as well as on newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it, while providing details of the communal,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.43 ROA

Seddon, Leigh W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 694.2 SED

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