SOCWBC January Meetup

Jan 27 Wed 7:00 PM
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 25  people attended.
5.00 5.002 (2 ratings)

Who organized?
Rebecca Holland

Book: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Website: http://www.physickboo... (links to the Big 3 Book Companies listed here as well)

Synopsis:
A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history – the Salem witch trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest—to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.

As the pieces of Deliverance’s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem’s dark past then she could have ever imagined.
Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials in the 1690s and a modern woman’s story of mystery, intrigue and revelation.

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  • Cindie Marx
    Posted Jan 3, 2010 1:24 PM
    Active Member 2010
    Everyone should read Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible" before reading this book. Better still, have seen it.

Who attended?

Our Sponsors

Panera Bread - Lake Forest

10% discount off of any food items purchased; Room set aside for us too!

Divine Decadence, Lorena Castro

A full service cater providing a treat & Vino for our Holiday Party!

Taylored Photo Memories

$25 off regular Portrait fee

Orangewood Children's Foundation

Please donate a Teen book or see the site for other items needed!

"What Love Looks Like" by Kurt Bensworth

Featured Local Author! Check out his website by clicking on the title.

Lost Letter - Neil Mulligan, author

A soldier writes a letter that is never delivered until years later!

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