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Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key secreted within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it:...
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c2002
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Presents a chronicle of the Salem Witch Trials, an episode in U.S. history in which the strange behavior of several young girls in colonial Salem was attributed to witchcraft leading to mass hysteria, accusations against townspeople, and over twenty executions and deaths.