Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten

Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten

I can’t recall the last time I read a book so intriguing as Ellen Alpsten’s gripping (although at points a touch unbelievable) Tsarina, the story of Peter the Great of Russia’s second, last, and longest-lasting wife. Marta is born onto an estate of serfs in the Baltics in the late 1600s. Raised by a resentful…

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman dips deeper into the bloodline of the love-cursed Owens women, those witches around whom Practical Magic (mainly about modern sisters Sally and Gillian) and The Rules of Magic (about aunts Jet and Frances’ childhoods in the 1960s) revolve. Magic Lessons takes us all the way to the beginning of the story and tells…

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