Results for "Weisberg, Barbara"

“In 1864, the nation was riveted by a society divorce trial that had everything: cheating, wealth, feuding brothers and lurid details Weisberg’s sensitive examination reconstructs the trial while giving dimension to the real-life people involved.”—The New York Times Book Review “Editors Choice”... Read More about Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

What does it mean to be an Earthling on a planet spinning in space? In this enchanting picture book, a boy - an Earthling - introduces you to his world as he wakes, eats, plays, sleeps, and dreams. How is he different from space creatures on other planets? A book that surprises and delights, whether... Read More about Space Creatures

A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement - and whose recanting forty years later... Read More about Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

March 1848. Mysterious knocks are heard in a little house in rural New York, throwing the community into turmoil. Are the children who live there -- Kate and Maggie Fox, sisters aged eleven and fourteen -- making the raps to trick their parents? Or are the girls mediums for otherworldly messages? Fr... Read More about Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism