For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best - selling author journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award winning books including the Pulitzer Prize...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780733330254
For theBoyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world?s most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award winning books including the Pulitzer Prize winner...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780670021048
Pulitzer Prize winning-author Geraldine Brooks transports the reader to 1660s Martha's Vineyard and Cambridge to tell the dramatic tale of the intertwined destinies of Caleb Cheshahteaumuck...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780142429709
Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours Read by TBA A richly imagined new novel from the author of the "New York Times" bestseller, "People of the Book."...more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781410437341
A richly imagined new novel from the author of the "New York Times" bestseller, "People of the Book." Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:539
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781441790217
In this luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure, Geraldine Brooks once again takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. Bethia Mayfield...more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781742678573
Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. Caleb's Crossing gives voice to his little known story. Caleb...more details Format:Audio Book 10 Disc 12 hours 15 minutes
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780732289225
In 1665, a young man from Martha?s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of his extraordinary life...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:300
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780007333530
Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. ?Caleb?s Crossing? gives voice to his little known story. Caleb...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781417914081
1900. Illustrated. These narrative sketches of certain dames and daughters of our colonial days are designed to illustrate the different types...more details Format:Paperback Pages:284
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781144061140
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors...more details Format:Paperback Pages:322
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781172829811
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781172944033
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781103131358
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:324
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781103131372
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:324
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781459065352
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MADAME GEOFFRIN. Born in Paris...more details Format:Paperback Pages:122
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781142099435
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:326
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781171521921
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780548263860
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:312
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781432668037
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints...more details Format:Paperback Pages:324
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781459065383
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. ELIZABETH PATTERSON...more details Format:Paperback Pages:122
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781172905812
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:332
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780642563804
As a child in Sydney in the 1950s, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover more about the outside world, so she began correspondence with pen pals in the Middle East...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781863256131
An award-winning memoir from the bestselling author of MARCH and YEAR OF WONDERS Born in Sydney's western suburbs in the late 1950s, the young Geraldine Brooks longs to discover the vivid places where she believes history and culture are made. Penfriends from the Middle East...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781863591324
Born in Sydney's western suburbs in the 50s, Geraldine Brooks longs to discover the vivid places where she believes history and culture are made. Penpals from the Middle East...more details Format:Paperback
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780385483735
As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780007165872
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book'...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780642589590
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women...more details Format:CD-Audio
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women...more details Format:CD-Audio
From Louisa May Alcottas beloved classic "Little Women," Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story afilled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable mana (Sue Monk Kidd). With apitch-perfect writinga ("USA Today")...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780670033355
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780007165865
Like her bestselling YEAR OF WONDERS, MARCH is a love story set in a time of catastrophe. It explores the passions between a man and a woman...more details Format:Hardback
Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic abolitionist March has gone to serve the Union cause as chaplain to the troops. But the war tests his faith...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780732278410
An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause as chaplain to the troops. But the war tests his faith not only in the Union, but in himself....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the American Civil War, John March leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. An idealistic chaplain in a little known backwater of the war...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781863256124
'Frank, enraging and captivating.' The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780868246260
"Powerful and enlightening...Brooks presents stunning vignettes of Muslim women...and carefully distinguishes misogyny and oppressive cultural traditions from what she considers the true teachings of the Koran." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL...more details Format:Paperback
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781417636303
An intimate, often shocking portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women -- and of how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith...more details Pages:260
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780385475778
With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780141029405
Korean edition of NINE PARTS OF DESIRE - The Hidden World of Islamic Women by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist Geraldine Brooks. This captivating book analyzes how the religious oppression towards women in Islam culture has been distorted in many ways. Translated by Hwang Seong Won. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books...more details Format:Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prizeawinning author of "March," the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996...more details Format:Hardback Pages:372
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780007177431
The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure...more details Format:Hardback Pages:356
People of the Book crosses continents and centuries to bring stories of hope amidst darkness, compassion amidst cruelty, all bound together by the discoveries made by a young Australian woman restoring an ancient Hebrew book...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780732280383
Shortlisted for the 2009 Prime Minister?s Literary Awards
When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript that has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of war-torn Sarajevo...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:496
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780143115007
The acomplex and movinga("The New Yorker") novel by Pulitzer Prizeawinner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war Inspired by a true story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:372
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781417953387
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks...more details Format:Paperback Pages:212
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781409717287
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781152770751
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781171550426
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780547242163
@lt;DIV@gt;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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:363
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780547242088
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:363
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781841154589
A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781417627530
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666...more details Pages:308
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780142001431
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781565114890
Year of Wonders is historical fiction of the highest order--absolutely convincing in its period detail, filled with full-blooded characters who arouse one's deepest empathy...more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780756933920
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666...more details Pages:308
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9780142427668
Year of Wonders is historical fiction of the highest order--absolutely convincing in its period detail, filled with full-blooded characters who arouse one's deepest empathy...more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks
ISBN:9781615730704
"Year of Wonders" is historical fiction of the highest order--absolutely convincing in its period detail, filled with full-blooded characters who arouse one's deepest empathy...more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks;Richard Easton
ISBN:9780792734734
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781433212703
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March," the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love....more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks;Edwina Wren
ISBN:9781433212697
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March," the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love....more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781433212680
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March," the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love....more details Format:CD
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Geraldine Brooks;Edwina Wren
ISBN:9780143142980
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March," the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love....more details Format:CD
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Brooks Geraldine
ISBN:9780732289232
In 1665, a young man from Martha?s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of his extraordinary life...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Geraldine B 1875 Brooks
ISBN:9781172168422
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:326
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Brooks Geraldine
ISBN:9781113516046
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:328