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Alison Adare writes non-fiction for money and fiction for fun. She lives in front of the computer most of the time and is owned by two cats.

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The Black Hill

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"Charms, and conjurings, and other abominable superstitions ..."

In 794, the Council of Frankfurt condemned the persecution of witches, called the belief in witchcraft superstitious, and ordered the death penalty for anyone burning a supposed witch. By the late fifteenth century, Pope Innocent VIII was blaming witches for the failing harvest in Germany and authorizing witch-hunters to deal with them. The concept of witchcraft as a specific type of heresy, a Read more of this blog post »

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The Odyssey

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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)

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Triplanetary (Classics To Go)

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