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House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
Category: Fiction
1915, and the ghosts of the dead haunt a wealthy Boston family . . . Sybil Allston is devastated by the recent deaths of her mother and sister aboard the Titanic. Hoping to heal her wounded heart, she seeks solace in the parlour of a medium who promises to contact her lost loved ones. But Sybil finds ...Show more
Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe
Category: Classics
This is a chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America. From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to dea ...Show more
The Lost Book of Salem by Katherine Howe
Category: Fiction
While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe
Category: History
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the ...Show more
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Category: Fiction
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie dis ...Show more
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Category: History
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on h ...Show more
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Category: History
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on hi ...Show more
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Category: Non-Fiction
Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbi ...Show more
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