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From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.

This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock its deep mysteries.

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. In fundamentalist Iran, Brooks finagles an invitation to tea with the ayatollah’s widow—and discovers that Mrs. Khomeini dyes her hair.

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, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks...

Brooks discusses her latest historical novel with award-winning journalist John Hockenberry, the host of WNYC's new morning show, The Takeaway. The book, inspired by a real rare illuminated manuscript, imagines its life from its creation in medieval Seville to the present, through the lives of the people who come into contact with the book. Actress Rita Wolf will perform an excerpt.

Ein mitreißendes Hörbuch über Mut, Hingabe und Liebe vor dem Hintergrund des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. Washington, D.C., 2019. Jess, eine junge australische Wissenschaftlerin, und Theo, ein nigerianisch-amerikanischer Kunsthistoriker, finden sich durch ihr gemeinsames Interesse an einem Pferd unerwartet verbunden. Jess untersucht die Knochen des Hengstes nach Hinweisen auf seine Kraft und Ausdauer – Theo will die verlorene Geschichte des unbekannten schwarzen Reiters aufdecken, der für seinen Rennerfolg entscheidend war.

Ein mitreißendes Hörbuch über Mut, Hingabe und Liebe vor dem Hintergrund des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. Washington, D.C., 2019. Jess, eine junge australische Wissenschaftlerin, und Theo, ein nigerianisch-amerikanischer Kunsthistoriker, finden sich durch ihr gemeinsames Interesse an einem Pferd unerwartet verbunden. Jess untersucht die Knochen des Hengstes nach Hinweisen auf seine Kraft und Ausdauer – Theo will die verlorene Geschichte des unbekannten schwarzen Reiters aufdecken, der für seinen Rennerfolg entscheidend war.