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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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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 fight for him. Her strict mother lives in a state of angry denial; her younger brother Mike has already convicted his brother in his heart. But most disturbing of all is Art himself, who persistently dodges Sheila's questions and refuses to defend himself....
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"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
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In a time before history, in a land of legend, where wild horsemen wage endless war across a sea of grass, the last descendant of the White Mare's servants follows a sacred vision beyond the edge of the world. There she finds a land ruled by women, whose people have no word for war. But the horsemen are coming. The White Mare's daughter must try to stop them, and both save and change the world.
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Father Paul Bartholomew, brought back from the dead on the operating table, is haunted by visions when he seems to inhabit the body of Christ on the cross, and when he develops stigmata and physical characteristics that mimic the image on the Shroud of Turin, the Vatican, worried that the case could be proved a hoax, calls upon famous skeptics, New York psychiatrist and atheist Dr. Stephen Castle, and Italian religious researcher Professor Marco Gabrielli,...
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When spray-painted graffiti appears on the wall of Christy Burke's pub indicating that there's a killer on the premises, his grandson, Father Brennan Burke, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Though not at all keen on probing into the lives of the bar's clientele, he has little choice once a body is found on the property. Issuing orders from a cell in Mountjoy Prison, the pub's current owner wants the problem solved without the police anywhere...
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""The newest legal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham. This masterfully plotted, perfectly paced novel confirms that Grisham remains America's favorite storyteller. In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on...
10) Overbite
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Now working for the Palatine Guard--a secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican--Meena Harper tries to win over her co-workers as well as her new partner Alaric Wolf while investigating a young priest recently assigned to the case.
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"With his cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and huge umbrella, Father Brown is one of the most unforgettable characters in literature.The Complete Father Brown Stories brings together all the stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's amateur sleuth—plus two additional cases, "The Donnington Affair" and "The Mask of Midas," that were discovered in Chesterton's papers after his death. An introduction by Chesterton scholar Michael D. Hurley...
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"It's 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister's arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan's cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the...
13) The enchanted
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English
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The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
14) The dragon's son
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The uneasy relationship between dragons and humans is further exacerbated by the birth of twin sons to a high priestess--one fully human in form but blessed with dragon magic, and one half-man and half-dragon.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Long-beleaguered supernatural private investigator Harry D'Amour and his entourage of mortal sidekicks are lured to the infernal realm to serve as "witness" to what the demon Pinhead calls "my gospels": a succession of gruesome atrocities.
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When she falls in love with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and helps him steal the Golden Fleece, Medea, Princess of Colchis and priestess of Hecate, Thee Named, Lady of Phantoms, sails with him to claim his throne, but things turn tragically wrong and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity through abandonment, murder and grief.
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On a mission of revenge, and in the guise of English businessman Sebastian Foxx, exiled Sebastião Raposa returns to Lisbon, stalking the ruthless Inquisitor priest Pedro Azinheiro who imprisoned his parents ten years earlier. When a twist of fate turns his carefully laid plans to chaos, he will be forced to choose between surrendering to bloodlust or serving the cause of mercy.
18) Eifelheim
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In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?
19) Shannon: a novel
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After returning from war in 1922--shell shocked--American soldier Robert Shannon witnesses the corruption of the Archdiocese of Boston and is strongly encouraged by his mentor to fulfill a dream and seek out the roots of his Irish heritage.
20) Pirate freedom
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As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional . . . for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth.
Fresh from the monastery, the former novice finds himself inexplicably transported back to the Golden Age of Piracy, where an unexpected new life awaits him. At first, he resists joining the notorious...
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