All WCPL locations are closed until further notice. During this time you will not be able to place new holds on physical materials. If you have holds on the shelf, they will be held until we reopen. Discover an array of library resources you can access from home, available anytime.

People of the Book: A Novel
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(6)
4 star
 
(7)
3 star
 
(2)
2 star
 
(1)
1 star
 
(1)
Author:
Geraldine Brooks
Status:
Checked Out
More Details
Published:
Penguin Publishing Group 2008
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
1/1/2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781101158197
ASIN:
B000YJ66SW
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.5, 21 Points
Subjects
Fiction
Literature
Also in This Series
Published Reviews
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection30
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Geraldine Brooks. (2008). People of the Book: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Geraldine Brooks. 2008. People of the Book: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2008.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Geraldine Brooks. People of the Book: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2008. Web.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2010. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
6b885fcf-3fc1-58c0-a89c-ec598420b0ab
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Apr 23, 2014 15:15:10
Date Updated:
Jun 01, 2020 18:40:02
Last Metadata Check:
Jun 01, 2020 18:40:04
Last Metadata Change:
May 07, 2020 20:25:08
Last Availability Check:
Jun 01, 2020 18:40:05
Last Availability Change:
Jun 01, 2020 18:35:36
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Jun 03, 2020 07:32:34

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101158197
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B000YJ66SW
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101158197
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780143115007
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Geraldine Brooks
title
People of the Book
dateAdded
2010-12-17T12:10:19.637-05:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=426&titleID=204004
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Wake County Public Libraries (NC)
          • id: 1893
sortTitle
People of the Book A Novel
crossRefId
204004
subtitle
A Novel
id
0a6b933a-44e6-4494-ba0d-8d3cceefb166
starRating
4.2

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: PeopleoftheBook9781429591065
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 1901111
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101158197
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 01/01/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/PeopleoftheBook9781429591065.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: PeopleoftheBook9781429591065
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B000YJ66SW
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 11/12/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/PeopleoftheBook9781429591065.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: PeopleoftheBook9781429591065
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781101158197
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 01/01/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/PeopleoftheBook9781429591065.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: Jewish
      • value: literary fiction
      • value: Historical
      • value: Fiction
      • value: European History
      • value: Bosnia
      • value: novels
      • value: Australian history
      • value: Religion
      • value: Jews
      • value: serbia
      • value: Haggadah
      • value: Historical Fiction
      • value: Australia
      • value: true story
      • value: Holocaust
      • value: Pulitzer Prize
      • value: librarian
      • value: Hebrew
      • value: Alternate History
      • value: fiction books
      • value: Christianity
      • value: Antisemitism
      • value: Jewish fiction
      • value: Jewish books
      • value: rare books
      • value: historical novels
      • value: bosnian war
      • value: religious books
      • value: historical fiction novels
      • value: Geraldine Brooks
      • value: Sarajevo Haggadah
      • value: historical fiction books
      • value: jewish novels
      • value: realistic fiction books
      • value: books fiction
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Brooks, Geraldine
      • name: Geraldine Brooks
imprint
Penguin Books
publishDate
2008-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
People of the Book
fullDescription

View our feature on Geraldine Books's People of the Book.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.
From the Hardcover edition.
popularity
2585
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/L1BLQAAAA2a/products/0a6b933a-44e6-4494-ba0d-8d3cceefb166/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
0a6b933a-44e6-4494-ba0d-8d3cceefb166
starRating
4.2
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/0A6/B93/3A/{0A6B933A-44E6-4494-BA0D-8D3CCEEFB166}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
publishDateText
1/1/2008
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780143115007
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription

View our feature on Geraldine Books's People of the Book.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to...
sortTitle
People of the Book A Novel
crossRefId
204004
subtitle
A Novel
publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with with reading apps installed.
Sample Sample  Place Hold OverDrive
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
Sample Sample  Place Hold OverDrive
Need Help?
If you are having problem using our eCollection, please visit our support center.
Borrower Reviews