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A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and
the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a
Pulitzer Prize winner tells a sweeping story of spirit, obsession,
and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved
groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding
that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the
South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young
artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up
arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the
stallion and his groom, very far from the glamour of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for
taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a
19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington,
DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a
Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly
connected through their shared interest in the horse-one studying
the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the
other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who
were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true
story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became
America's greatest stud sire, Horse is an original ,gripping,
multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism
in America.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of
the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light
on the human experience - classics which will endure for
generations to come. In the spring of 1666, a bolt of infected
cloth carries the plague from London to the quiet village of Eyam.
The villagers elect to isolate themselves in a fateful quarantine,
seen through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith. As death and
superstition creep from household to household, she must confront
loss and the lure of illicit love in an extraordinary Year of
Wonders. This timeless and powerful novel, based on a true story,
was the astonishing debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of March.
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, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders."
Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing "an inspiring heroine" (The Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning
authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful,
beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings
together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an
original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19,
1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen
Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded
the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation,
the ACLU remains the nation's premier defender of the rights and
freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the
ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an
anthology of essays "full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience,
hope, and triumph" (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark
cases in the organization's one-hundred-year history. Fight of the
Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have
shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU
has been involved in-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade,
Miranda v. Arizona-need little introduction. Others you may never
even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we
live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid
life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the
history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the
questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to
Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the
now-iconic Miranda rights-which the police would later read to the
man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of
Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend
of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to
the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well
be on different planets. True to the ACLU's spirit of principled
dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU's
stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with
essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann
Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and
many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the
past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we
can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are
donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are
forgoing payment.
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, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion. In 1666, plague scorched London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection. So begins the Year of Wonders, in which a Pennine village of 350 souls confronts a scourge beyond remedy or understanding. Desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and murderous witch-hunting. Then, led by a young and charismatic preacher, they elect to isolate themselves in a fatal quarantine. The story is told through the eyes of Anna Frith who, at only 18, must contend with the death of her family, the disintegration of her society, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit attraction. Geraldine Brooks’s novel explores love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of 17th century science and religion to deal with a seemingly diabolical pestilence. Year of Wonders is also an eloquent memorial to the real-life Derbyshire villagers who chose to suffer alone during England’s last great plague.
The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author
of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March', Sunday Times bestseller
'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book'. Martha's Vineyard,
1650s: Bethia Mayfield is a young girl growing up in the tiny
settlement of Great Harbor, amid a small band of pioneers and
Puritans. Restless, bright and curious, but denied the education
that her brothers receive, she slips away as often as she can to
explore the island's wild landscapes and observe its native
Wampanoag inhabitants. At the age of twelve, she encounters Caleb,
the young son of a chieftain, and the children form a secret
friendship that gradually draws each into the alien world of the
other. Meanwhile, Bethia's minister father is trying to convert the
Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman against whose
magic he must test his own beliefs. And when he takes it upon
himself to educate Caleb, it will further divide the communities -
within a year the boy is learning Latin and Greek, and leaves the
island to study at Harvard. As Caleb makes the crossing into white
culture, Bethia finds herself pulled in the opposite direction.
Trapped by the narrow strictures of her faith and her gender, she
seeks connections with Caleb's world that will challenge her
beliefs and set her at odds with her community...
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 Chabon and Ayelet
Waldman. June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Israel
occupation of the West Bank. The violence on both sides of the
conflict has been horrific, the casualties catastrophic. Michael
Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists
and essayists, have joined forces with the Israeli NGO Breaking the
Silence-an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers who
served in the occupied territories and saw firsthand the injustice
there-and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the
people on the ground in the contested territories. KINGDOM OF
OLIVES AND ASH includes contributions from some of our most
esteemed storytellers, including essays from editors Chabon and
Waldman. Their writing enables readers to understand the human
narratives behind the litany of grim destruction broadcasted
nightly on the news. Together they all stand witness to the human
cost of the occupation.
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. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night
in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has
been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she
knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A
renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to
start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book
– to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its
miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series
of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including
her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked
his life to save the book. As meticulously researched as all of
Brooks’s previous work, ‘People of the Book’ is a gripping
and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.
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March (Paperback)
Geraldine Brooks
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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"), 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. A lushly written,
wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time,
"March" secures Geraldine Brooksas place as a renowned author of
historical fiction.
aA very great book... It breathes new life into the historical
fiction genre [and] honors the best of the imagination.a a"Chicago
Tribune"
aA beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges
moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and
unspeakable memories between husband and wife.a a"Los Angeles Times
Book Review"
aInspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story,
put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet.a
a"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"
aLouisa May Alcott would be well pleased.a a"The Economist"
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 grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an
acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force"by the "San
Francisco Chronicle," this ambitious, electrifying work traces the
harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully
illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century S pain.
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 and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine
art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.
"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. .
.in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest
concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." -
Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post A rich and utterly absorbing
novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million
copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author
Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim.
Now, Brooks takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic
figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling
away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel,
Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from
shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to
murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The
Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known
episodes of David's life while also focusing on others, even more
remarkable and emotionally intense, that have been neglected. We
see David through the eyes of those who love him or fear him-from
the prophet Natan, voice of his conscience, to his wives Mikhal,
Avigail, and Batsheva, and finally to Solomon, the late-born son
who redeems his Lear-like old age. Brooks has an uncanny ability to
hear and transform characters from history, and this beautifully
written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire, family, ambition,
betrayal, and power will enthrall her many fans.
A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from
the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize. 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
draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a
Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and
Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new,
eventually becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard
College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the irresistible
Bethia, Caleb's Crossing brilliantly captures the triumphs and
turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk everything in a
search for knowledge at a time of superstition and ignorance.
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Horse (Paperback)
Geraldine Brooks
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Horse is an extraordinary novel of race, war and idealism. It is
set partly in pre-Civil War Kentucky, partly in the New York of the
1950s. The story of Lexington, the fastest horse in
nineteenth-century America, his black groom, and the white
abolitionist who painted him is counterpointed with that of the
woman who went on to own the horse's famous painting. Martha
Jackson is at the centre of post World War 2's New York art scene,
and the social and sexual turbulence of the 1950s. The collision of
these two stories takes Geraldine Brooks's fans back to the
brilliance of her Pulitzer-Prize winning March, and is her finest
novel yet.
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March (Paperback)
Geraldine Brooks
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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’, a historical novel and love story set
during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American
Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, ‘March’ tells the
story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family
of girls in ‘Little Women’, Louisa May Alcott’s classic
American novel. In Brooks’s telling, March emerges as an
abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war
that tests his faith in himself and in the Union cause when he
learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism. As
he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital, he
must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find
a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of
the ordeals he has been through. As Alcott drew on her real-life
sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so Brooks
turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa
May’s father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and
abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Henry David Thoreau. The story spans the vibrant intellectual
world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, through to the
first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of
unexpected defeats. Like her bestselling ‘Year of Wonders’,
‘March’ follows an unconventional love story. It explores the
passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and
child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belief.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 1000 BC.
The Second Iron Age. The time of King David. Anointed as the chosen
one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king,
grasping the throne and establishing his empire. But his journey is
a tumultuous one and the consequences of his choices will resound
for generations. In a life that takes him from obscurity to fame,
he is by turns hero and traitor, glamorous young tyrant and beloved
king, murderous despot and remorseful, diminished patriarch. His
wives love and fear him, his sons will betray him. It falls to
Natan, the courtier and prophet who both counsels and castigates
David, to tell the truth about the path he must take. Brooks has an
uncanny ability to hear and transform characters from history, and
this beautifully written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire,
family, ambition, betrayal, and power will enthral her many fans.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
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