Alice Hoffman, author portrait
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Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, the Reese’s Book Club selection The Rules of Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Book of Magic, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Dovekeepers, and The Invisible Hour. She lives near Boston.
Nightbird
The Red Garden
The Story Sisters
The Third Angel
Blackbird House
The Probable Future
Practical Magic
Seventh Heaven
Blue Diary
The Drowning Season
Illumination Night
The River King
Local Girls
Fortune's Daughter
White Horses
Angel Landing
At Risk
Here on Earth
Second Nature
Turtle Moon

Books

Nightbird
The Red Garden
The Story Sisters
The Third Angel
Blackbird House
The Probable Future
Practical Magic
Seventh Heaven
Blue Diary
The Drowning Season
Illumination Night
The River King
Local Girls
Fortune's Daughter
White Horses
Angel Landing
At Risk
Here on Earth
Second Nature
Turtle Moon

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