00969cam a2200217 4500 503752982 TxAuBib 20080129120000.0 070430s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780670018215 067001821X TxAuBib Brooks, Geraldine. People of the book : a novel / Geraldine Brooks. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008. 372 p. : map. When a young book conservator is called to analyze a priceless Jewish prayer book, salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library, she discovers a series of artifacts hidden in the centuries' old book. Her research gradually uncovers the book's colorful past, and sets the stage for the next eventful page in the manuscript's history. 20080129. Manuscripts Fiction. Book conservators Fiction.