Local Girls

Local GirlsBy: Alice Hoffman The New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic is at her haunting, thought provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family. Alice Hoffman casts her spell over a neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams as she evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and bound together by devotion. As Gretel grows up, she is witness to the breakup of her parents' marriage, the ups

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and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln

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and tells a true story with subtlety and power

And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war

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It offers a moving reflection on the human search for truth

and orphaned Pythias quickly discovers that the world is not a place of logic after all

super rad story of one of his many post-apocalyptic adventures

a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward

Lemoncello's one-of-a-kind Gameworks Factory in book five of the fun-filled