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  • The Devil of Great Island

    Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England

    by Emerson W. Baker ...
    "With deft insights, Tad Baker illuminates a supernatural mystery from seventeenth-century New England . . . a gripping tale well told." —Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Storm of Witchcraft

    The Salem Trials and the American Experience

    by Emerson W. Baker ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    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 ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • A Storm of Witchcraft

    The Salem Trials and the American Experience

    by Emerson W. Baker ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    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 ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • The Penguin Book of Witches

    by Katherine Howe ...
    Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The Daughters of Temperance HobbsFrom 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 death on the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Penguin Book of Demons

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce ...
    **Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmaresA Penguin Classic**For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. The Penguin Book of Demons summons these supernatural creatures—and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them—across ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • A Delusion of Satan

    The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

    by Frances Hill ...
    During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. In less than two years, nineteen men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

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  • Six Women of Salem

    The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

    by Marilynne K. Roach ...
    "[Full of] the author's deep knowledge of virtually every man, woman and child affected by the trials in this bizarre period." — Kirkus ReviewsThe story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six womenSix Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Penguin Book of the Undead

    Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce ...
    The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Albion's Seed

    Four British Folkways in America

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Series series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Mayflower

    The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

    by Rebecca Fraser ...
    From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world."There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser . . . There is more to the Pilgrims' story—more to American identity and character—than our Thanksgiving rituals and reveries." — Wall Street ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Puritan Village

    The Formation of a New England Town

    by Sumner Chilton Powell ...
    Pulitzer Prize Winner: "A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts." — TimeIn addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town's early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a ... Read more

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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD