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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
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....
5) Woman of God
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, A member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
413 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
"'This document, dear friend, will shatter the Church'-- Reading these words in a letter in a dusty archive, Thomas Kelly is skeptical. The papers to which they refer have vanished, but Father Kelly, a Jesuit priest, doubts anything could ever have had that power-- until the Vatican suddenly calls him to Rome to begin a desperate search for that very document. Meanwhile, standing before a council of her people, Livia Pietro receives instructions:...
Author
Publisher
Mart�inez Roca
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Durante siglos la iglesia ha negado su existencia.La novela sobre la mujer que se sent en el trono papalSiglo IX, Maguncia. Hija de un predicador que lleg a Sajonia para esparcir la palabra de Dios, Juana es una joven poco comn. Cada da acude a la iglesia del padre Carolus, quien, a cambio de que ayude en la cocina, comparte con ella la sabidura de los textos sagrados. Tras el asedio y el asesinato del sacerdote a manos de los brbaros, es abandonada...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and...
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