{"title":"Deborah Harkness","description":"Deborah Harkness is the number one New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships. She lives in Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"the-black-bird-oracle-hardcover","title":"The Black Bird Oracle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself--and her family history--in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series, hailed as \"your next favorite fantasy read\" (\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Black Bird Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood--the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children.\"--Jodi Picoult\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stunning hardcover of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Bird Oracle \u003c\/i\u003efeatures a custom-stamped case, beautiful endpapers, and a premium dust jacket!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in \u003ci\u003eA Discovery of Witches.\u003c\/i\u003e Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: \u003ci\u003eIt's time you came home, Diana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power--if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101133050079,"sku":"9780593724774","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9BpsZhsM029780593724774.webp?v=1781068322"},{"product_id":"times-convert-paperback","title":"Time's Convert - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Discovery of Witches\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Black Bird Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a novel about what it takes to become a vampire--the fourth in the All Souls series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook for the hit series \"A Discovery of Witches,\" now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus's deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor--the young employee at Sotheby's whom Marcus has fallen for--is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. 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Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: \u003ci\u003eIt's time you came home, Diana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power--if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101247049951,"sku":"9780593724798","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oZqob0mARm9780593724798.webp?v=1781068553"},{"product_id":"a-discovery-of-witches-hardcover","title":"A Discovery of Witches - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling All Souls Series--\"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNow \"[a] hot show that's like \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eOutlander\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThrillist\u003c\/i\u003e) airing on AMC and BBC America, as well as streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deborah Harkness's sparkling debut, \u003ci\u003eA Discovery of Witches\u003c\/i\u003e, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. 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