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003008-05 THE LOSER LETTERS by MARY EBERSTADT
With modern humor, this witty book chronicles the conversion of a young adult Christian to atheism.
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003008-06 IDA ELISABETH A Novel by SIGRID UNDSET
This novel from Nobel Prize-winning auther Sigrid Undset is set in the 1930s and examines the difficulties in male-female relationships. As in Undset's other fiction, this story illustrates how poor choices affect a person's life and how suffering because of the poor choice can be the means by which love is purified. Paper.
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003008-07 HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION by MARCUS GRODI
For Stephen Lapointe the Bible was the only sufficient, firm foundation for his life. He loved to preach the Word of God and gave up a career to become an ordained minister. But there was a problem: How could he be sure that what he was preaching was true?
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003008-08 RACHEL'S CONTRTION by MICHELLE BUCKMAN
After the death of her daughter, grief-spawned delusions cause Rachel to lose her husband, her home and custody of her son. Help arrives from two unlikely sources: a young teenager, Lilly, who is battling her own demons, and a tattered holy card depicting St. Therese of Lisieux.
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003008-09 FATHERLESS by BRIAN J. GAIL
This brilliantly crafted book takes the reader on an unforgettable journey inside Fortune 500 boardrooms and Madison Avenue through a searing journey to the center of conscience, marking Fatherless as the signature Catholic novel of its generation.
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003008-10 MOTHERLESS by BRIAN J. GAIL
"...In a remarkably captivating manner Motherless depicts our troubled age as it is and as it will continue to be unless we seek the help of the Mother of God..."
- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke
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003008-11 LOOKING FOR THE KING, An Inklings Novel by DAVID C. DOWNING
American Tom McCord, an aspring doctoral candidate, is in 1940 England researching the legendary King Arthur. Downing offers a vivid portrait of Oxford and draws a welcoming glimpse into the personalities and ideas of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien,while never losing sight of his main characters and his action packed plot. Hardcover.
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003008-12 MANALIVE, A Comic Novel by G.K. Chestertion
This classic novel tells the rollicking tale of Innocent Smith, a man who may be crazy, or possibly the most sane of all. In this delightfully strange mystery, Chesterton demonstrates why life is worth living, and sometimes we need a little madness just to know we are alive.
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003008-13 THE CYPRESSES BELIEVE IN GOD, Spain on the Eve of The Civil War, by JOSE MARIA GIRONELLA
This epic novel, gripping and suspenseful, reviews the puplic and private life of Spain leading up to the outbreak of rebellion, impressively and deftly portrays the human conflict, internal and external.
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003008-14 THE ROBE by LLOYD C. DOUGLAS
Marcellus, a Roman soldier, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest that reaches the very heart of Christianity. A timeless story of adventure, faith and romance.
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003008-15 POOR BANISHED CHILDREN, A Novel, by FIORELLA DE MARIA
An explosion is heard off the coast of sixtennth-century England, and a woman washes up on the shore. She is barely alive and does not speak English, but she asks for a priest... in Latin. She has a confession to make and a story to tell, but who is she and where did she come from? This historical novel raises challenging questions about the nature of courage, free-will and ultimately, salvation. Hardcover.
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003008-16 MURDER IN THE VATICAN, The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, by ANN MARGARET LEWIS
Follow the great detective as he investigates three baffling cases at the "express dsire of his Holiness, the Pope".
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003008-17 THE FATHER'S TALE by MICHAEL D. O'BRIEN
Canadian bookseller Alex Graham is a middle-age widower whose quiet life is turned upside down when his college-age son disappears without any explanation or trace of where he has gone. With minimal resources, the father begins a long journey that takes him for the first time away from his safe and orderly world. As he stumbles across the merest thread of a trail, he follows it in blind desperation, and is led step by step on an odyssey that takes him to fascinating places and sometimes to frightening people and perils. Stretched nearly to the breaking point by the inexplicable suffering he witnesses and experiences, he discovers unexpected sources of strength as he presses onward in the hope of recovering his son and himself. 1076 pages. Hardcover.
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004690-00 THE PERFECT JOY OF ST. FRANCIS by Felix Timmermans.
A classic novel about St. Francis of Assisi, written with a deep understanding of Francis and his ideals. Paper.
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004690-01 A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO by LUCY BECKETT
A novel of pre-war Germany. This epic story follows the coming of age and the early manhood of the Prussian aristocrat, Max von Hofmannswaldau. From the idyllic surroundings of his ancestral home to the streets of Breslau menaced by the Nazi SS, Max deals with the truth about his own identity and confronts the modern ideologies that threaten the annihilation of millions of people.
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004690-02 THE LAST CRUSADER by LOUIS DE WOHL
A novel about Don Juan of Austria and his campaign against rebel Moriscos in Andalusia.
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004695-00 IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE by Rumer Godden.
This is the extraordinary story of a successful professional woman who gives up her career to enter a Benedictine monastery and finds perfect happiness. Paper.*
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004700-00 FATHER ELIJAH: AN APOCALYPSE by Michael O'Brien. Paper.
A novel about the Church at the end of time; a thriller that has been likened to Tolstoy's writings. 596 pages. Paper.
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004729-09 STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS by Michael O'Brien.
First book in a triology, a spiritual novel of the 20th century, following the lives of four generations of one family. Paper.
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004730-01 PLAGUE JOURNAL by Michael O'Brien. Paper.
Second book of a trilogy, this is a tale of a democratic society turned into a totalitarian one and the efforts of one man, a journalist who tries to expose the truth, to protect himself and his children.
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004730-02 ECLIPSE OF THE SUN by Michael O'Brien.
The last book in the trilogy, this is a futuristic tale of the collapse of the western world due to a wide spread undermining of moral absolutes. Paper.
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004731-00 A CRY OF STONE by Michael O'Brien.
Based on the real lives of a number of native North Americans, this is a fictional account of the life of native artist Rose Wabos which explores the true meaning of poverty of spirit. Paperback
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004731-01 THEOPHILOS by MICHAEL D. O'BRIEN
In this fictional narrative, Theophilos is the skeptical but but beloved adoptive father of St. Luke. Challenged by the startling account of the "Christos" received in the chronicle from his son Luke and concerned for the newly zealous young man's fate, Theophilos, a Greek physician and an agnostic, embarks on a search for Luke to bring him home. Hardcover.
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004732-00 ISLAND OF THE WORLD by Michael O'Brien, Hardcover.
A novel about the Balkans and particularly Yugolslavia from the beginning of World War II concluding in the third millenium.
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004736-00 THE GUNPOWDER PLOT by Hugh Ross Williamson.
This exciting historical novel relates the facts behind the alleged conspiracy of Catholics against the English state during the Reformation. Hardcover.
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004737-00 COME RACK! COME ROPE! by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson.
Based on a true story, this is a novel about a Catholic family during the persecutions under Queen Elizabeth I of England. Hardcover.
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004750-00 THE BETROTHED by Alessandro Manzoni.
One of the few novels included in Fr. Hardon's Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan, said to be the greatest romance of modern times. Paper.
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004755-00 THE RED HORSE by Eugenio Corti. (Hardcover)
The personal experiences of an Italian freedom fighter during WWII. It is a profoundly moving account of the war and the physical and spiritual effects on families in his hometown.
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004755-01 THE RED HORSE by Eugenio Corti. (Paper)
The personal experiences of an Italian freedom fighter during WWII. It is a profoundly moving account of the war and the physical and spiritual effects on families in his hometown. Paper.
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004760-00 THE BEST OF FATHER BROWN by G. K. Chesterton.
In one volume, 16 cases investigated by Chesterton's high-priest of detective fiction, the inimitable Father Brown. Paper.
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