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Living with books rather than people seemed safe to me then, as it does to her a way to run from the more dangerous territory of love. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and published in more. The first edition of the novel was published in october 1st 2006, and was written by alice hoffman. Pdf the ice queen book by alice hoffman free download. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but dont all stories begin this way. Green angel, a postapocalyptic fairy tale about loss and love, was published by scholastic and the foretelling, a book about an amazon girl in the bronze age, was published by. Alice hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the world that we knew, the rules of magic, the marriage of opposites, practical magic, the red garden, the oprahs book club selection here on earth, the museum of extrao. Alice hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the world that we knew, practical magic, the rules of magic, the oprahs book club selection here on earth,the red garden, the dovekeepers,the museum of. Buy the ice queen by alice hoffman from waterstones today. The first edition of the novel was published in 2005, and was written by alice hoffman. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended adelphi university, from which she received a ba, and then. During our visit we learn about hoffman s grandfather, a yiddish writer whose work she found on the yiddish book centers steven spielberg digital yiddish library.
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