Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen Five years later

Five years later

So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her

safe yet dressed in an executioner’s garb

Previous owner's name written in pen on the inside of the front cover

When Jaime takes her on as a pupil he finds himself embroiled in dark political intrigue against which his old-fashioned values are no protection

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen Five years laterThe story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Wrttemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and