Good seats for SOLD OUT lecture! Two tickets for Geraldine Brooks literary lecture, this Monday, April 8, 7:30 pm, Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. First Balcony, 4th row center. $19.50 each, must buy both tickets. Geraldine Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller, and People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence More information at http://www.pittsburghlectures.org/interior.php?pageID=322 and http://geraldinebrooks.com/ The Books Taking place in the 1660′s this story is inspired by the fist Native American Indian to graduate from Harvard University. Read more > Inspired by the true story of a mysterious codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, People of the Book is a sweeping adventure through five centuries of history. Read more > Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history. Read more > “A vividly imagined and strangely consoling tale of hope in a time of despair.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Read more > Gerladine Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarks on a human treasure hunt to find her childhood pen friends. Read more > This is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Read more >