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The confessor
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Daniel Silva |
In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new pope … |
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Day of confession
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Allan Folsom |
A heart-thumping whirlwind of action, suspense & murder that reaches deep into the highest levels of Vatican power & uncovers a demonic scheme to massacre hundreds of thousands of Chinese in an attem… |
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Vatican
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Malachi Martin |
The subject of this long and intriguing novel is the Vatican's elaborate bureaucracy, in particular its powerful financial network, headed by a mysterious figure known as the Keeper. Another central … |
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Faith
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Jennifer Haigh |
Sheila McGann is estranged from her complicated family. But when her older brother Art, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to… |
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The spirit woman
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Margaret Coel |
According to legend, Sacajawea, the Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American wilderness, is buried on the Wind River Reservation. Now, a college prof… |
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Happy Are the Peacemakers
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Andrew M. Greeley |
***Father Greeley's fictional detective, the Most Reverend John Blackwood Ryan, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and amateur sleuth par excellence, becomes involved in another mystery with both theologica… |
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The Thorn Birds (adaptation)
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Ward, Ann.,Colleen McCullough,Ann Ward |
Adaptation |
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Eminence
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Morris West |
An Argentinean cleric, tortured in the 1970s is rescued and brought to Rome. A generation later, having rising within the hierarchy, a candidate for the papacy himself, he must confront his past. |
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The devil's advocate
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Morris West |
*The Devil's Advocate*, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacomo Nerone has inspire… |
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Crimes of the father
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Thomas Keneally |
From one of our greatest living writers, a bold and timely novel about sin cloaked in sacrament, shame that enforces silence, and the courage of one priest who dares to speak truth to power. Sent awa… |
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The fifth gospel
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Ian Caldwell |
A lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish converge to send two brothers--both Vatican priests--on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity's greatest historical mystery. |
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In God's House
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Ray Mouton |
This book is more than a novel. It's a testament to one of the most harrowing problems of our time. It's the story of one man's crusade to bring justice to the victims of child abuse. And it's a jour… |
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A good confession
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Bridget Whelan |
A captivating novel about forbidden love - Cathleen Brogan is a young widow, struggling to bring up her family in 1960s north London. Times are tough for the Irish immigrants who live there, their ha… |
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Windswept House
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Malachi Martin |
A Black Mass in the Vatican in 1963 gets Malachi's first novel since Vatican (1985) off to a wicked start. A potentially gripping conflict between two American brothers--one a priest, one a lawyer, b… |
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Vatican
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Malachi Martin |
The subject of this long and intriguing novel is the Vatican's elaborate bureaucracy, in particular its powerful financial network, headed by a mysterious figure known as the Keeper. Another central … |
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The Seventh Station
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Ralph M. McInerny |
<I>The Seventh Station</I> sees Father Dowling on a week's annual Retreat at Assisi House, run in a very traditional way by the Franciscans, where he hopes to find peace and quiet. Instead he finds h… |
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Lying Three
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Ralph M. McInerny |
Suddenly the world of international politics and terrorism confronts the small world of Fox River on the outskirts of Chicago: an assassin's bullet misses the Israeli consul as he watches the Cubs at… |
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Second Vespers
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Ralph M. McInerny |
Francis O'Rourke, noted American author, is more alive dead than he ever was when alive. He was born and grew up in Fox River, a town now seething with big O’Rourkian business. Collectors, scholars, … |
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The secret of Father Brown
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining … |
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awfu… |
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