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1) Conclave
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Born and raised in suburban New Jersey, Timothy John Mulrennan has known since childhood a deep and abiding faith in his God and his Church that leads him to a career as a priest-and propels him onto the stage of world events that include the Second Vatican Council, the Vietnam War, and the election of the first Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic church of the third millennium. Along the way he encounters some of the most remarkable characters...
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Heart of the Amish volume 04
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Life has not always been kind to Stella Schmucker, teaching her early to never depend on anyone but herself. Then any hope she had for love fled when her intended married another. Leaving her old life behind, Stella discovers that peace and contentment are found in nature, not people, but her passion for helping others has never changed. Simon Graber became a bishop and a widower early in life. Grief for the family lost to him has tightened his focus...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 14
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"See to it, Blackwood," says the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, and Blackie Ryan, the Cardinal's auxiliary bishop, doesn't exactly jump (he never jumps), rather he moseys down to Washington, D.C., where one of his friends, Jack Patrick McGurn, called "Machine Gun McGurn" by the media, has surprisingly just been elected president and needs his help.
Blackie's first confrontation is with Washington bureaucracy; the powers that be don't want to give...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 15
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The irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan returns as his Cardinal dispatches Blackie to The University on the South Side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked-room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Divinity School-despite the fact that the door of his office was bolted shut from the inside and no killer was found within.
Who shot Brother Semyon Ivanivich Popov? There were only four professors in the...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 12
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Upon arriving in Chicago, the new Auxiliary Bishop manages to disappear while riding the L train and strangely enough, the whole train disappears with him. Naturally, it is up to Blackie to find him.
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 16
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"Bishop Blackie Ryan is summoned to St. Lucy's Church in Chicago. The old neighborhood is changing, and some people don't like it at all. Now three bodies have been left in the sanctuary. Is it a warning to those who would "gentrify" the neighborhood, or to St. Lucy's monsignor who has made his share of enemies? Blackie fears that this could be just the beginnning, and enlists the help of his long-dead father, as well as Declan O'Donnell, a savvy...
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