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Series
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Katherine Valentine's two previous Dorsetville novels enchanted readers with lovable characters and rich humor. The third installment delivers more of the day-to-day intrigue and comic happenstance only found in Valentine's endearing community. All is not well in Dorsetville-the sheriff is ill, tragic news awaits Lori Peterson-but in a close-knit community like this, there is no shortage of neighborly care to get you through life's twists and turns....
4) Not less than everything: Catholic writers on heroes of conscience from Joan of Arc to Oscar Romero
Publisher
HarperOne
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays by some of the best contemporary Catholic writers--including James Martin, Alice McDermott, and Ann Patchett--on the church figures who have influenced the way they view the intersection of faith and culture.
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Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come. His young widow, Lauren, finds solace in her large clan of in-laws, while his brother's wife Kate pursues motherhood even at the expense of her marriage. John's teenage nephew Stephen finds himself involved in an act of petty theft that takes a surprising turn, and nephew Alex, a gifted student, travels to Spain and considers...
Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul II.
In Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside," he also offers a firsthand account of the tumult of post-Vatican II Catholicism and the Cold War's endgame, introducing readers to the heroes who brought down European communism....
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Once she was Professor Mary Naughton, investigative reporter, teacher, and free spirit. Now she is Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope, a cloistered, financially-struggling monastery in New Mexico. As an extern-a nun who handles her order's dealings with the outside world-she is used to having her faith and newly-acquired patience tested. But when popular chaplain Father Anselm is poisoned to death in the middle of Mass, Sister Agatha has to bring
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Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between 'progress' and 'tradition' in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic...
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Publication Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and devout Catholic tells you everything you need to know about keeping your faith at a modern university. Drawing on her recent experience, Aurora Griffin shares forty practical tips relating to academics, community, prayer, and service that helped her stay Catholic in college. She reminds us that keeping the faith is a conscious decision, reinforced by commitment to daily practices. Aurora's...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city's dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage. Absalom "Abbie" Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn't keep Abbie's troubled past from making her a misfit in the working-class...
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Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly comic novel about three friends working in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland while they plot their escape from their provincial families and the simmering violence of the Troubles"-- Provided by publisher.
Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication Date
[2026]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five years ago, celebrated author (and cradle Catholic) Christopher Beha gave up on God. Helped along by a reading of Bertrand Russell's classic text Why I Am Not a Christian, he became a committed atheist, certain that his days of belief were behind him. A youthful brush with mortality soon set Beha on a decades-long quest for meaning in a Godless world"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Paul Wilkes has been a writer/journalist, a TV producer, a monastic, a hedonist, a friend of the famous, a family man, and ultimately a true prodigal son. With In Due Season, Wilkes, one of America's most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, details his search for God--from his working class upbringing in Cleveland to giving up everything he owned and living with the poor to his hedonistic life among the rich and famous. Wilkes's...
Author
Publication Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the single mother who raised...
18) Doubt: a parable
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A winner for any reader who loves historical, action-packed novels."—Kirkus
In this brilliant new Elizabethan conspiracy from the internationally acclaimed author of Sacred Treason, faith and fear stir up a powerful story of loyalty, lies, and secrets.
Your Choice. Your Faith. Your Fate.
1564: Catholic herald William Harley, known as Clarenceux, guards a highly
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