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Shadow Of Night by Deborah Harkness (3)

ASIN:  B006WEZ9TK Publisher:  Penguin Books (July 10, 2012) Kindle:  2333 KB Print:  594 pages AMAZON Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey. Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. She has received Fullbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships, and her most recent scholarly work is The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. She also writes an award-winning wine blog. My review for A Discovery of Witches REVIEW: Season two of the tv show started and I knew I had to read Shadow
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