Brooks, Geraldine

Presents a novel that is based on a true story that confronts America's history of racism. In 1850 Kentucky, enslaved groom Jarret cares for and trains a horse, Lexington, that becomes a champion. A painting of Jarret and the horse is done but it's lost in the Civil War. Then in 1954 New York City, gallery owner Martha Jackson becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting. Finally, in 2019 Washington, DC, Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Black graduate student at Georgetown, find the painting and set out to learn the story of the Black horsemen and restore the painting.

A collection of twenty short stories by American and Canadian authors deemed to be the best of 2011.

Follows the experiences of Mr. March, the father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," as he witnesses the cruelty and racism of both Northern and Southern soldiers and the harsh realities of Civil War.

The story of a small mountain village in England and housemaid Anna Frith as they try to survive the terrible plague year of 1666.

Once again, the author 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, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story 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.

Examines the life of Muslim women, and the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives.