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"A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. The daughter of an union with an outsider that cast her once-proud family into disgrace, Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"The Island that Disappeared tells, for the first time, the story of the passengers aboard the Mayflower's sister ship (the Seaflower) who in 1630 founded a rival Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence--so small it doesn't appear on most maps. Chaos ensued, and the great experiment failed. One-hundred years later the disaster repeated itself. Travelling to the island today, Tom Feiling finds a new mix of Puritans and pirates...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means - and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? What Vowell discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoe-buckles-and-corn reputation might suggest.
31) Love's pursuit
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Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In a rigid community where appearance is everything, Susannah Phillips stands out both for her character and beauty - things that have attracted two very different men. Yet as the depth, passion, and sacrifice of real love is revealed to her, Susannah begins to question the rules and regulations of her childhood faith. In a community where grace is unknown ... What price will she pay for embracing love?
Series
Woodbridge Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Anne Yancy is a young vagrant who, despite suffering abuse all of her life, has grown strong and determined even as she secretly harbors a deep longing to belong. Nathan Woodbridge is a rich, Harvard-educated Puritan. Set in the year after the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Blood, Flesh, And Flame is the story of a Puritan town under attack. Anne knows the source. Nathan has no patience for superstition or anything smacking of the paranormal yet is assigned...
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Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
In her luminous new novel, Bharati Mukherjee creates a vivid, complex tale about the dislocation and transformation that arise in the face of a meeting of cultures: the terrain she has so brilliantly made her own in her acclaimed novels and stories. Here, in The Holder of the World, we witness an unlikely and intriguing meeting of two worlds, the Puritan American and the Mughal Indian. In a startling commingling of history and imagination, Mukherjee...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Describes the life of the Puritans in New England during the 17th and 18th centuries, including their religion and views on the supernatural, working and home life, health and medicine, what it was like to grow up Puritan, and the legacy they left for future generations.
36) The Sacrifice
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts 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.
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