Eliza Foss
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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. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.
2) Abandoned
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Investigative journalist Max Revere takes on her most difficult assignment yet: finding out what happened to her mother, who abandoned Max when she was nine.