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Critically-acclaimed author Donald Cozzens that takes us behind the scenes of the Roman Catholic Church for an unflinching look at clergy sexual abuse and its very personal consequences. Cozzens weaves an intricate story of scholars and trained killers, bishops and priests, church ladies and clandestine operatives struggling--each in their own way--to protect the institution they venerate or to blow the lid off the oldest boys' club in the world.
4) Relics
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Harker chronicles volume 1
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"To find the truth, one must first uncover the lies... When a Catholic priest hangs himself at the Pope's inauguration, his friend, Professor Alex Harker, is dragged into a secret war. The suicide sets into motion a series of terrifying events. Pursued by a merciless assassin, Harker must track down and decipher a puzzle laid down by the dead priest. He soon finds himself in an epic battle--one that's been playing out on the fringes of society since...
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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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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 39
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The bestselling Australian novel of all time, Thorn Birds is the sweeping saga of three generations of the Cleary family. Stoic matriarch Fee, her devoted husband, Paddy, and their headstrong daughter, Meggie, experience joy, sadness and magnificent triumph in the cruel Australian outback. With life's unpredictability, it is love that is their unifying thread, but it is a love shadowed by the anguish of forbidden passions. For Meggie loves Father...
7) 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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The Keys of the Kingdom tells the story of a man with great courage and conviction, a man unafraid to stand up for what is right. Francis Chisholm--a kindhearted and straightforward Scottish priest--walks a path all his own, making him unpopular with other members of the clergy. Ostracized by the clerical community and looked down on by his superiors, Chisholm takes a position in China where he supervises a mission beset by poverty, civil war, and...
9) The cardinal
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The book tells a story that captured the nation's attention: a working-class American's rise to become a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The daily trials and triumphs of Stephen Fermoyle, from the working-class suburbs of Boston, drive him to become first a parish priest, then secretary to a cardinal, later a bishop, and finally a wearer of the Red Hat.
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Passover trilogy volume 1
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The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin's lives was shaped the day their father, a self-made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States.
For his elder son, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife-the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a genuine vocation, the younger son, Sean, went into the...
14) Three Marys
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Cal Donovan novels volume 2
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Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teeange girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God? Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys disappears...and then another. As he struggles to uncover...
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"During the sweltering Roman summer of 1492, Rodrigo Borgia has risen to power as pope. Rodrigo's eldest son Cesare, forced to follow his father into the church and newly made the Archbishop of Valencia, chafes at his ecclesiastical role and fumes with jealousy and resentment at the way that his foolish brother has been chosen for the military greatness he desired. Maddalena Moretti comes from the countryside, where she has seen how the whims of powerful...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.
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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...
18) Vatican waltz
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Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside of Boston, guided by her Catholic faith. When she loses her beloved grandmother, she begins experiencing "spells" of such intense spiritual intimacy that she wonders about her sanity. Devoted to her elderly father and not particularly interested in dating and socializing, she develops a deep friendship with her parish priest. His congregation sees him as provocative and radical, but he encourages...
19) Wife of moon
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John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries volume 10
Wind River Reservation
Wind River mystery volume 10
O'Malley mystery volume 10
Wind River Reservation
Wind River mystery volume 10
O'Malley mystery volume 10
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In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered, and her killer was never identified. Now, Curtis's photographs are on display at the museum of St....
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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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