Posted on January 3, 2012, 11:03 am, by admin.
Martha Allen is 22 and well past the age when her family started to think of marriage for her. But her hard disposition has attracted no man who would marry her, and so she is sent to live with her cousin Patience and help with the household while Patience goes through a difficult pregnancy. Lie [...]
Posted on May 7, 2010, 5:00 am, by admin.
Kathleen Kent is the author of The Heretic’s Daughter, a story of the Carrier family and the Salem Witch Trials (see my review). She grew up in Dallas before attending the University of Texas at Austin. After college she moved to New York where she worked in commodities and then as a contractor for the [...]
Posted on May 6, 2010, 5:30 am, by admin.
When hardship hits ten-year-old Sarah Carrier’s family, they move on a cold December day from their home in Billerica, Massachusetts to nearby Andover. They don’t know it, but they carry the plague with them, wrapped in the blankets her brother shivers into. The Carriers move in with Sarah’s grandmother, and they must apply to the [...]