{"id":832,"date":"2011-06-14T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=832"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:35:52","slug":"a-discovery-of-witches-by-deborah-harkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-834 size-full\" title=\"A Discovery of Witches\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/A-Discovery-of-Witches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Twilight<\/em> for grown-ups would be one way to describe this book, but it is so much more: a mysterious 500-year-old manuscript, a forbidden romance, untested magical power,s and the search for the origin of other-worldly speices.\u00a0 Harkness&#8217;s first novel has it all, and I couldn&#8217;t put it down. \u00a0When I finished reading it, I immediately checked on-line to see if there would be a sequel and was happy to learn the author is hard at work on the next installment. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait to see what happens to the characters next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twilight for grown-ups would be one way to describe this book, but it is so much more: a mysterious 500-year-old manuscript, a forbidden romance, untested magical power,s and the search for the origin of other-worldly speices.\u00a0 Harkness&#8217;s first novel has it all, and I couldn&#8217;t put it down. \u00a0When I finished reading it, I immediately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-julia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}