Katherine Howe: 13 books

Book cover of The House of Velvet and Glass
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a...
Book cover of Conversion
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible.   It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through...
Book cover of The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

A magical bloodline. A family curse. Can Connie break the spell before it shatters her future? A bewitching novel of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse, by Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance...
Book cover of Le figlie del libro perduto
by Katherine Howe
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010

Connie Goodwin, giovane e brillante dottoranda all’Università di Harvard, è impegnata in una ricerca sui processi di Salem, nel New England, che alla fine del diciassettesimo secolo videro più di centocinquanta persone accusate di stregoneria. Ma durante l’estate è costretta a trasferirsi...
Book cover of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

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....
Book cover of The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

A haunting, contemporary love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Conversion It’s July in New York City, and aspiring filmmaker Wes Auckerman has just arrived to start his summer term at NYU. While shooting a séance at a psychic’s in the East Village, he meets a mysterious,...
Book cover of The Penguin Book of Witches
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court...
Book cover of La casa di velluto e cristallo
by Katherine Howe
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 17, 2013

14 aprile 1912. Ellen Allston e sua figlia Eulah si godono i fasti dell’alta società in una sfarzosa sala da ballo del Titanic, ignare della tragedia che travolgerà i loro destini. Boston, tre anni dopo. Sibyl Allston partecipa alle sedute spiritiche tenute in casa di una veggente nel disperato...
Book cover of Empowering Children

Empowering Children

Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship

by Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2007

Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children...
Book cover of A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada
by R. Brian Howe, Katherine Covell
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada is the first book to assess...
Book cover of Education in the Best Interests of the Child

Education in the Best Interests of the Child

A Children's Rights Perspective on Closing the Achievement Gap

by R. Brian Howe, Katherine Covell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013

A large body of research in disciplines from sociology and policy studies to neuroscience and educational psychology has confirmed that socioeconomic status remains the most powerful influence on children’s educational outcomes. Socially disadvantaged children around the world disproportionately...
Book cover of Children, Families and Violence

Children, Families and Violence

Challenges for Children's Rights

by Katherine Covell, Brian Howe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008

This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection. The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent...
Book cover of The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition
by Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, J.C. Blokhuis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention cannot, however, guarantee that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children,...
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