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Speare, Elizabeth George.

Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1958

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPE

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015

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Speare, Elizabeth George.

Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SPE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SPE

Coble, Colleen

Summary: "Hannah Thomas left the South and all that was familiar to marry her beloved John. But the fact that she's never been quite accepted by his mother and sister and that she doesn't quite fit the strict Massachusetts Puritan community only becomes more difficult when John is killed in one of the first battles in the war for freedom. Hannah is allowed to continue to serve as lightkeeper for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COB

Lewis, Stephen

Summary: Told in the compelling voice of Rachel Moore, a housemaid in 17th century Puritan Boston and featuring that colony's two most powerful figures in Governor John Winthrop and his courageous opponent Anne Hutchinson, From Infamy to Hope is the story of the religious persecution of a servant girl made pregnant by rape. Convicted of fornication, she is sentenced to wear a black W for "whore" on her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Austin Macauley Publishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEW

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEW

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1991

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOH

Fraustino, Lisa Rowe.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC FRA

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Collector's Library 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011

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Nesbit, TaraShea

Summary: "Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NES

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NES

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Hester Prynne and her lover feel the effects of sin in Puritan New England.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 'The Flight Attendant, ' the enthralling story of a young Puritan woman who marries the wrong man and soon finds herself caught up in the violence and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOH

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOH

Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)

14 holds on 12 copies

Summary: "When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Mitchell, Siri L.

Summary: In Stoneybrooke, Massachusetts, Susannah Phillips obeys the rules. Dress the right way. Believe the right things. Live the right life. But when love interferes, she faces a choice: follow the rules or follow her heart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIT

Speare, Elizabeth George.

Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPE

Summary: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel brings to life the attitudes and passions of 17th century New England. Condemned by her Puritan fellows for having a child out of wedlock, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCA

Bunyan, John

1 hold on 1 copy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hendrickson Publishers 2004

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Coble, Colleen

Summary: A young lighthouse keeper, recently widowed, faces war and deprivation to find happiness with a shipwrecked captain who's a spy for George Washington.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COB

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Hester Prynn, a young woman in Puritan Massachusetts, publicly bears the burden of her sin of adultery while her husband secretly exacts his revenge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Haw

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Travel back to Boston, Massachusetts as it existed in the 1642 for this classic tale of Puritanical Romance and sin. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. This classic tale is a must-read for everyone as it explores...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAW

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Summary: Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 1981

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAW

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