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Author:

Brooks, Geraldine.

Title:

People of the book : a novel / Geraldine Brooks.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

372, 9 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Judaism--Fiction.--Fiction.
Manuscripts, Hebrew--Fiction.
Judaism--Manuscripts--Fiction.
Books--Conservation and restoration--Fiction.

Notes:

Readers guide at back of book (p. [1]-9). Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin, 2008.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0143115006 (trade pbk.) :
9780143115007 (trade pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233548597

Locations:

EXPC755 -- Akron Public Library (Akron) — FIC

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

EPPA725 -- Ashton Public Library (Ashton)

EAPA384 -- Beaman Community Memorial Library (Beaman)

A2PD787 -- Carter Lake Public Library (Carter Lake)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

HBPB755 -- Merrill Public Library (Merrill)

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

JNPC081 -- Leonard A. Good Community Library (Ogden)

W7PA017 -- Public Resource Technology Center (Orient Public Lib) (Orient)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

FBPC124 -- Benny Gambaiani Public Library (Shell Rock)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

ZVPB675 -- Whiting Public Library (Whiting)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)