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1) Byzantium
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Born to rule
Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript,
...2) 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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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 13
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Bishop Blackie Ryan is sent to Paris to find a missing priest who had become a television superstar. Blackie enlists the help of a beutiful young musician he found begging outside a church, and together they attempt to solve the mystery.
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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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The church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. Mavis and Millicent are lifelong residents of the remote village--or were, until their home is broken into one night and Millicent is murdered. But who's the killer? Is it one of their coworkers, sick of being bullied to practice for a big performance? Or perhaps Joseph Kennell, a retired lawyer...
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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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[2000]
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John Quincy Watson was a skilled young pilot flying B-29s over Japan when he was shot down and taken prisoner in 1945. Fifty years later, now a prominent religious figure nearing retirement, Bishop Watson believes he has long since overcome the excruciating memories of his months as a POW. But a chance sighting of the now elderly Japanese officer who tortured him transports the Bishop back to that unendurable time, and he finds himself overwhelmed...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 6
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Both of Nora MacDonaugh's husbands have died under mysterious circumstances, and Bishop Blackie Ryan is the only man who can resist the widow's charms long enough to solve the mystery.
17) A vigil of spies
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Owen Archer mysteries volume 10
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John Thoresby, the Archbishop of York, lies dying. One of the most powerful men in the country, his imminent demise has the dominant families of the north vying to influence his succession. Owen Archer, one of the few men Thoresby trusts, is determined that his lord's last days should be as peaceful as possible. But his plans go awry when Thoresby agrees to a visit from Joan, Princess of Wales. Within minutes of her arrival, a member of the royal...
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