Brooks, Geraldine

A fictional account based on the actual lead-mining village of Eyam, Derbyshire, whose inhabitants voluntarily quarantined themselves for a year when stricken with Bubonic Plague in 1665-1666.

In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.

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.

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

Bethia Mayfield befriends Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain, as she grows up near Martha's Vineyard in the mid-seventeenth century, and watches as her minister father attempts to convert the Native Americans, but the fates of the children are tied together as Bethia's father encourages the education of Caleb, a privilege Bethia has always wished for, and the two are reunited in Cambridge.