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Tuesday, February 5th (drop-by only)
GERALDINE BROOKS signs
People of the Book
(Penguin, $25.95)
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"From 1480 Seville to 1996 Sarajevo, a priceless scripture is chased by fanatics political and religious. Its recovery makes for an enthralling historical mystery. In Sydney, ace (and gorgeous) old-book conservator Hannah Heath gets a 2 a.m. phone call. She's summoned to Sarajevo to check out a 15th-century Spanish-made Haggadah, a codex gone missing in Bosnia during a 1992 siege... Rich suspense based on a true-life literary puzzle..." said Kirkus. And Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post said: "...this new novel by the author of March, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006, is intelligent, thoughtful, gracefully written and original. Brooks has built upon her experience as a correspondent in Bosnia for the Wall Street Journal to construct a story around a book - small, rare and very old - and the people into whose hands it had fallen over five centuries..." | |
| To reserve a copy, email us at info@mformystery.com or telephone us at the store (see numbers below). |
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86 East Third Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
www.MforMystery.com
Phone: 650-401-8077
Toll free outside the Bay Area: 888-405-8077
Fax: 650-401-8079