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Books by Geraldine Brooks
March
- Hardcover, 280 pages
Year of Wonders
- Paperback, 11 pages
The Best American Short Stories 2011
- Paperback, 363 pages
People of the Book
- Hardcover, 372 pages
Caleb's Crossing
- Paperback, 318 pages
NPR stories about Geraldine Brooks
Best Books Of 2011
A Passion For The Past: 2011's Best Historical Fiction
December 24, 2011 These five outstanding novels take us to unfamiliar eras and exotic locales — ancient Israel, Elizabethan England, 1920s Paris — while confirming our common humanity.
Best Books Of 2011
Conversation Starters: 2011's Top 5 Book Club Picks
January 1, 2012 These character-driven novels featuring fracturing families, intrepid scientists and one very plucky early American heroine will spark lively debate on everything from the unreliability of memory to scientific ethics.
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Review: Caleb's Crossing By Geraldine Brooks
May 3, 2011 Set in the 17th century on Martha's Vineyard, a new novel from Geraldine Brooks tells the tale of a Puritan family — and one daughter's relationship with the son of a Wampanoag chieftain who would become the first Native American to graduate from Harvard.
Holiday Books
In the Winter Cold, Warmth and Light on the Page
December 7, 2007 Novelist Geraldine Brooks, poet Robert Hass, Western essayist William Kittredge: from critic Alan Cheuse, an array of books to keep winter's chill and the ever-earlier dark at bay — at least in the circle of light by the reader's chair.
Novel Ideas
Geraldine Brooks: Writes Under Any Circumstances
November 20, 2006 Geraldine Brooks is the author of two nonfiction books and two novels. Her second novel March won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Brooks lives with her husband and son in Massachusetts.
Read Any Good Books?
'March,' 'Year of Wonders' by Geraldine Brooks
November 21, 2005 Two NPR listeners offer praise for two historical fiction titles from author Geraldine Brooks, March and Year of Wonders. "Very thought-provoking," says listener Peggy of the latter.
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Geraldine Brooks' Civil War 'March'
March 9, 2005 A Civil War battle of Ball's Bluff, near Leesburg, Va., forms the backdrop for the opening scene of Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March. Its principal character, Capt. March, becomes undone by the evils of war and his own moral shortcomings.
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Author Interviews
A Portrait Of The Cartoonist And Her Mother
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has a new memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother.
Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
