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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 NZD
Category: Sci-fi/Fantasy
When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited 12 year old living in the rigid confines of a 17th-century English Puritan settlement, meets Caleb, the young son of a Wampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father, a Calvinist minister, tri ...Show more
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March', 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book'. Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. 'Caleb's Crossing' gives voice to his little known ...Show more
Caleb's Crossing (Audio CD, unabridged, 10 CDs) by Geraldine Brooks
$54.95 NZD
Category: CDs
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, a Wampanoag from the island of Martha's Vineyard, seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts, comes of age just as the first generation of Ind ...Show more
Horse (HB) by Geraldine Brooks
$44.62 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 NZD
Category: No Category
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women. It illustrates how male pride and power has warped the original message of a once liberating faith. The book traces a journey toward an understanding of these women, and of the often contradictory forces that shape their lives.
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$19.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
" Frank, enraging and captivating. The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: A&R Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home abo ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, YEAR OF WONDERS and MARCH comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. A skilful reimagining ...gracefully and intelligently told.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS 1000 BC. The Second ...Show more