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A discovery of witches

Deborah Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center Fellowships. In A Discovery of Witches, scholar Diana Bishop mistakenly requests a bewitched manuscript for her research. She belongs to a family of witches-but because she's avoiding using her powers in favor o...

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Main Author: Harkness, Deborah E., 1965- (Author)
Other Authors: Ikeda, Jennifer (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2011.
Edition: Unabridged.
Series: All souls trilogy ; 1.
Subjects:
Vampires > Fiction.
Witches > Fiction.
Alchemy > Manuscripts > Fiction.
Science and magic > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Love stories.
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Summary: Deborah Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center Fellowships. In A Discovery of Witches, scholar Diana Bishop mistakenly requests a bewitched manuscript for her research. She belongs to a family of witches-but because she's avoiding using her powers in favor of scientific pursuits, she sends the manuscript back into storage. What she doesn't realize is, she's already started down a path toward a life she wants to avoid. ". [a] blackly comic dissection of the family ."-Guardian
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (22 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 24::0:1:
Format: Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 675595 KB).
ISBN: 9781461807728
Author Notes: Deborah Harkness was born in 1965. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, a M. A. from Northwestern University in 1990, and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Davis in 1994. She is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. Harkness is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine, specializing in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, was published in 2011. She is the author of the All Souls Trilogy. In 2006, she began a wine blog entitled, Good Wine Under $20. It provides an online record of her search for the best, most affordable wines. She made The New York Times Bestseller List with The Book of Life and Shadow of Night.

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