First time novelist, Katherine Howe, delivers a fascinating story that interweaves the quest of a doctoral student for a long-lost family almanac with the Salem Witch trials of 1692.  In The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Connie Goodwin stumbles across a key and the name of “Deliverance Dane” scrawled on an ancient piece of paper in her family’s bible as she’s cleaning out her grandmother’s house.  A cursory search in the local archives reveals that Deliverance Dane was a women excommunicated as a witch during the Salem Witch trials.  More intriguing to Connie is the possibility that Deliverance’s almanac or Physicks book of healing has been handed down from generation to generation.  Pressured by her graduate advisor, Connie embarks on an intense search for the missing book and in the process uncovers the paranormal realities of her family.