Джералдин Брукс – лучшие книги

Роковой 1665 год, Великая лондонская чума расползается по стране. Вместе с зараженным тюком ткани она попадает в удаленную деревушку. Болезнь перебирается из дома в дом, жители деревни могут только молиться. Противостоять напасти способны лишь немногие, среди них служанка Анна Фрит. Не подверженная заразе, она становится целительницей. А сельчане тем временем переходят от молитв к охоте на ведьм. Вместе с женой местного священника Анна борется не только с чумой, но и с безумием, распространяющимся среди жителей деревни. Благодаря самоотверженности двух женщин год катастрофы оборачивается годом чудес. Роман вдохновлен реальными событиями,…

Наши дни, Сидней. Известный реставратор Ханна Хит приступает к работе над легендарной "Сараевской Аггадой" - одной из самых древних иллюстрированных рукописей на иврите. Шаг за шагом Ханна раскрывает тайны рукописи - и заглядывает в прошлое людей, хранивших эту книгу... Назад - сквозь века. Все дальше и дальше. Из оккупированной нацистами Южной Европы - в пышную и роскошную Вену расцвета Австро-Венгерской империи. Из Венеции эпохи упадка Светлейшей республики - в средневековую Африку и Испанию времен Изабеллы и Фердинанда. Книга открывает секрет за секретом - и постепенно Ханна узнает историю ее создательницы - прекрасной сарацинки,…

Дэвид Балдаччи. "Доля секунды".
Кандидат в президенты застрелен на глазах у агента Секретной службы Шона Кинга. Спустя восемь лет бесследно исчезает другой кандидат, состоящий под опекой агента Мишель Максвелл. Два незадачливых оперативника объединяют свои усилия и в поисках правды попадают в полный опасностей мир страстей, желаний и мести. Эта масштабная, вызывающая приток адреналина история не раз заставит читателя затаить дыхание.

Джералдин Брукс. "Год испытаний".
Когда весной 1666 года в деревне Им в графстве Дербишир начинается эпидемия чумы, ее жители принимают мужественное решение изолировать себя от внешнего мира, чтобы страшная болезнь не перекинулась на соседние деревни и города. Анна Фрит, молодая вдова и мать двоих детей, - главная героиня романа, из уст которой мы узнаем о событиях того страшного года.

Ширли Палмер. "Зона опасности".
"Я люблю тебя, Сэм. Я должна уехать, чтобы вернуть Джимми. Не ищи меня, Сэм, пожалуйста". Когда сына Сэма Кейди похищают, а жена его исчезает, оставив загадочную записку, он не может оставаться безучастным. Идя по следу жены, Кейди сталкивается с действительностью, в которой все оказывается не таким, каким выглядит. Даже его жена.

Дэвид Бэрон. "Зверь в саду".
Городок Боулдер, штат Колорадо, многие сравнивали с Эдемом, где сосуществовали в полной гармонии люди и животные. Поэтому, когда пумы стали появляться во дворах домов и в городских парках, жители Боулдера только радовались этому. Но вскоре хищники, раньше боявшиеся человека, освоились, и это привело к ужасным последствиям. Увлекательный рассказ о том, как трудно сохранить дикую природу и не подвергнуть смертельной опасности человека.

Carl Fischer is pleased to announce that more than sixty violin solos edited and arranged by the legendary Jascha Heifetz, previously out of print, are once again available for sale, due to popular demand. This title is one of those solos from The Jascha

Geraldine Brooks, australijska pisarka i dziennikarka znana jest polskim czytelnikom jako autorka powieści takich jak „Ludzie księgi” czy „March”. „Nine Parts of Desire. The Hidden World of Islamic Women” („Dziewięć części pożądania. Ukryty świat islamskich kobiet”) to fascynujące spojrzenie na tę część społeczności muzułmańskiej, która zwykle jest dobrze ukryta przed spojrzeniami obcych, często wręcz niewidoczna, która ma często mniej praw, a która przez to jest często mało zrozumiana – kobiety. Brooks, która spędziła pięć lat na Bliskim Wschodzie jako korespondentka dla Wall Street Journal, miała możliwość poznać je blisko, zaprzyjaźnić się z nimi, przeprowadzać wywiady zarówno ze znakomitościami świata arabskiego jaki i zwykłymi kobietami.

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, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

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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 braids 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 glamor of any racetrack.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century 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, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

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.

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.

Peeling away the myth to bring the Old Testament's King 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.

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, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.