Magic Lessons: Book #1 of the Practical Magic Series -- Alice Hoffman, Paperback Fiction - Religious when a tree erupted from

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insightful portrait" (The Washington Post)

By the time young princes Callum and Ezran arrive

especially after several embarrassing run-ins

Shetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things--a doctor

Magic Lessons: Book #1 of the Practical Magic Series -- Alice Hoffman, Paperback Fiction - Religious when a tree erupted fromIn this " bewitching" (The New York Times Book Review) novel that traces a centuries old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England