title: Blackbird House: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
author:  Alice Hoffman 
description: "...[I]t certainly seems as though [Hoffman's] entrancing and mythological tales flow like water from a spring, and her new book is no exception....As the stories leapfrog from colonial times toward the present, Hoffman, a subtle conjurer of telling details and ironic predicaments, orchestrates intense romances and profound sacrifices. Those who live in Blackbird House, by turns brilliant, crazy, and courageous, follow their dreams, endure nightmares, and find that their numinous home is as much a part of their being as their parents' DNA"<br /><i>Booklist </i>(American Library Association)<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  _Nell_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  2014 Ballantine Books eBook Edition
  
  
  Copyright © 1985 by Nancy Thayer
  
  
  Excerpt from _Nantucket Sisters_ copyright © 2014 by Nancy Thayer
  
  
  Author photograph: copyright © Jessica Hills Photography
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random
  House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New
  York.
  
  
  BALLANTINE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House
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  Originally published in hardcover in the United States by William Morrow and
  Company, Inc., in 1984.
  
  
  eBook ISBN 978-0-553-39107-7
  
  
  Cover design: Eileen Carey
  
  
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