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1) North woods

Author

Mason, Daniel

Language

English

Appears on list

NYT Notable Fiction 2023

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When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...

2) Puritanism: a very short introduction

Author

Bremer, Francis J

Series

Very short introductions volume 212

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

c2009

Language

English

3) Hot protestants: a history of puritanism in England and America

Author

Winship, Michael P

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

4) The Puritan ordeal

Author

Delbanco, Andrew

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

1989

Language

English

5) The Puritans in America: a narrative anthology

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

1985

Language

English

6) The witch of Blackbird Pond

Author

Speare, Elizabeth George

Series

Laurel-leaf books

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9

Lexile measure

850L

Language

English

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"In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, a girl faces prejudice and accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Connecticut. Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her...

7) Witches!: the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem

Author

Schanzer, Rosalyn

Series

National Geographic

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4

Lexile measure

NC 1190L

Language

English

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Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, and the scheming officials that turned a mysterious illness into a witch hunt.

8) Puritan evangelism: preaching for conversion in late seventeenth-century english Puritanism as seen in the works of John Flavel

Author

Boone, Clifford B

Series

Studies in Christian history and thought

Publisher

Paternoster

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

9) The Puritan way of death: a study in religion, culture, and social change

Author

Stannard, David E

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

c1977

Language

English

10) The witches: Salem, 1692

Author

Schiff, Stacy

Language

English

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.

11) Puritan rhetoric: the issue of emotion in religion

Author

White, Eugene Edmond

Series

Landmarks in rhetoric and public address

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Pub. Date

2009, c1972

Language

English

12) The long argument: English Puritanism and the shaping of New England culture, 1570-1700

Author

Foster, Stephen

Publisher

Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press

Pub. Date

1991.

Language

English

13) The scarlet letter

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Series

Dover thrift editions
Perma-Bound Classics
Library of America
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

1420L

Language

English

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The Puritans thought Hester Prynne's crime was unforgiveable. She was convicted, imprisoned -- and then forced to wear, forever, a public reminder of her sin. The Scarlet Letter. The Letter was unending punishment: it set Hester apart from society, it tormented her days and haunted her soul. But the Letter haunted others, as well. Its mystery turned Roger Chillingworth from a gentle healer into a man driven by revenge. Its meaning burned into Rev....