Roland Merullo
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Formats
Description
What happens when the Pope and the Dalai Lama decide they need an undercover vacation? During a highly publicized official visit at the Vatican, the Pope suggests an adventure so unexpected and appealing that neither man can resist. Before dawn, two of the most beloved and famous people on the planet don disguises, slip into a waiting car, and experience the countryside as regular people. Along for the ride are the Pope's overwhelmed cousin Paolo...
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
344 pages
Description
"The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also looking for guidance. They embark on a road trip over...
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 2
Publisher
AJAR Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A novel about family, open-minded spirituality, and the American road. Facing one of life's greatest challenges, Otto Ringling takes comfort in a loving family and offbeat lessons from the eccentric spiritual teacher, Volya Rinpoche.
Author
Publisher
PFP Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Eddie Valpolicella, is on his way from Massachusetts to Arkansas to give a talk on "his" novel, Breakfast with Buddha, when, not far from home, he picks up a mysterious hitchhiker. Plainly dressed, insisting that he's a fan of the author, the hitchhiker claims to be Jesus, the Jesus, and accompanies Eddie on a five-day road trip that challenges him in an amusing variety of ways.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The American political system is thrown into a tizzy when Jesus appears and announces that he is planning to run for president, sending the two major party candidates and the world media into a last-ditch effort to discredit him.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 304 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Raised by parents so intentionally isolated that they speak their own hybrid dialect, abused youth Marjorie witnesses her parents' submission to a sadistic cult leader before she is rescued by another abuse survivor who teaches her stoneworking skills.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Manifesting intense religious episodes after losing first her grandmother and then her priest friend, Cynthia becomes convinced that God intends for her to become Catholicism's first female priest and pursues her belief all the way to the Vatican.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Description
"Italy, 1943. Luca Benedetto has joined the partisans in their fight against the German troops ravaging the shores of his town on Lake Como. While risking his life to free his country, Luca is also struggling to protect Sarah, his Jewish lover who's hiding in a mountain cabin. As the violent Nazi occupation intensifies, Luca and Sarah fear for more than their own lives. In the heart of their village, their mothers have also found themselves vulnerable...
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"At the behest of his sister, Otto Ringling finds himself reluctantly accompanying her guru, an enigmatic Mongolian monk, on a trip through Middle America to their childhood home, introducing his passenger to some American "fun" along the way."-- provided by publisher