Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book
By: Geraldine Brooks
The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 400
The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Best American R)
By: Geraldine Brooks
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" (San Diego Union-Tribune). With Brooks picking the best of the best, America's...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 320
Year of Wonders
By: Geraldine Brooks
Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life...
Published: Apr 2002
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 336
Caleb's Crossing
By: Geraldine Brooks
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 320
March
By: Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks takes a very minor character from Louisa May Alcott’s LITTLE WOMEN--Mr. March, the girls’ preacher father--and makes him the main character in this Civil War novel, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Serving...
Published: Feb 2006
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 288
