Most would not think summer was the time to read stories of witches, unless you think about what happened in June 1692. The witch trials began in Salem, Massachusetts. My great aunt Elizabeth Howe was hung on Gallows Hill on July 19, 1692. By the end of the summer 19 people had been hung and one pressed to death.
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The real witches according to this story by S.L. Smith, written 300 years later, left Salem and went to New Salem, Massachusetts.
The Secret Circle Book 1 the Initiation and The Capture Part I; Harper Teen Publisher; New York, 1992. & The Secret Circle The Capture Part II and the Power; Harper Teen Publisher; New York, 1992.
Cassie was a teenager when her mother moved them from California to the town of New Salem, Massachusetts. All she could think about was a boy she met at the beach at Cape Cod that summer. She was shy and felt awkward in trying to make new friends at a new high school, and to make matters worse she found out she was born into a family of full-fledged witches along with the other children on the street of old houses.
Why had so many parents died in 1976? Would they find out about the mysteries of the crystal skull and the Books of Shadows? You have to read both books to find the answers, in this fight against good and evil. By the end of the second book each finds their special power and together in a circle they can rid New Salem from evil at last.
Garcia, Kami, and Margaret Sloho; Beautiful Creatures; Little Brown & Company, New York, 2009.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr.
This story is another story about good versus evil set in the town of Gatlin, South Carolina. A small southern town where things never change until Ethan Wade met a new girl in town, Lena Duchannes. A girl he had been dreaming about for months, a girl that smelled of lemon and rosemary.
Lena fears her sixteenth birthday when the curse would take place making her a good or an evil caster (witch). The women in’ the family had been cursed since the Civil War. Could they find a way to change the curse in the Book of Moons? Lena did not want to be evil and she was running out of time. She finds that she has the power to change her own future and to choose for herself with the help of Ethan’s love.
This is a series of books that are well written as they take you into the tunnels and the secret library in the town of Gatlin. I wonder what secrets our library holds. They do contain some bad language.
Events at the Library
August 3rd
Burke’s 67@ 67 Run goes over the finish line at the Library around 8:30 am. There is still time to make a pledge or donation for the Garden City Library.
August 7th
Garden City Library Book Club for adults will meet at 5:00 pm.
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