![]() ![]() This discovery launches Connie on a quest to find out who this woman was, and to unearth a rare colonial artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge of herbs and other, stranger things. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key secreted within a seventeenth-century Bible. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. Summary from the publisher: Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. This isn’t going to be a negative review. ![]() I’m going to confess right now that this is one of my favorite books of the year. My problem was that I didn’t want to stop reading and then I got to a point where I wanted to go in slow motion. It is suggested that members stay with the schedule and read just so much each week. With this bookclub we read the book over a four week period. I read it as part of the First Look Book Club with Barnes and Noble. ![]() I’ve had the most amazing experience in reading this book. ![]()
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