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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A gripping and compassionate tale of family and faith, whispers and accusations, and the deeply hidden truths we're compelled to uncover.
After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until...
Author
Series
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Taking leave of his usual Chicago haunts, Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain in this latest mystery by bestselling author Greeley. The local cardinal has summoned the wily archbishop to Spain in hopes that Blackie can avert a murder before it happens.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
463 PAGES. $29.95. 2004053987. IN 1955 14 YEAR OLD TONY HENDRA WAS TAKEN TO SEE FATHER JOE AND FOUND THAT HE WAS A GENTLE MAN, NOT LIKE THE PRIESTS WHO SPANKED THEM IN SCHOOL, AND TONY DISCOVERED THAT HIS VISITS TO FATHER JOE REAMINED THE ONE CONSTANT IN HIS LIFE---THE RELATIONSHIP THAT, IN THE MOST SERIOUS SENSE, SAVED IT. KD
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Book-smart, devoutly Catholic, and painfully unsure of herself, Jane becomes pregnant in high school; by her early twenties, she is raising three children in the suburbs of western New York State. In the fall of 1991, as her children are growing older and more independent, Jane is overcome by a spiritual and intellectual restlessness that leads her to become involved with a local pro-life group. Following the tenets of her beliefs, she also adopts...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In the early 1900's the San Juan Baptista Cemetery was established southwest of Florence, Colorado, as a place for Mexican Catholics to be buried. Nearly 400 people have been buried here. Many of the graves are unmarked, with only a white cross to shaw they were buried somewhere in the cementery.
69) Stella Days
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times
70) Out of Ireland
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Uses actual letters from immigrants to tell their experiences in the New World.
71) Mary McGreevy
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A nun in 1950s Ireland abandons the veil to run a farm inherited from her father. Sister Mary Thomas is good looking and flirtatious, and suitors queue at her door. But she does not want a husband, only a child, and eventually she gives birth to one, scandalizing the district and getting a priest into trouble. By the author of Celibates and Other Lovers.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Bend Oaks is a small town with a big problem - every new priest who comes to town flees the rectory in the night, and no one will say why. Strange disappearances, unexplained sounds and smells, and mysterious deaths all haunt this hallowed building. But this doesnt́ stop the St. Francis Xavier Church Hookers from continuing their decades-old tradition of meeting in the rectory.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
How to describe Dorothy Day? Grandmother, anarchist, prophet, journalist, pacifist, saint? The FBI once considered her a threat to national security. Now the Catholic Church is considering her for sainthood. Revolution of The Heart: The Dorothy Day Story profiles one of the most extraordinary and courageous women in American history. She was co-founder (along with Peter Maurin) of the Catholic Worker Movement that began as a newspaper to expose rampant...
76) London calling
Author
Description
Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In his brilliant second novel, Dermot McEvoy sweeps his readers into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by...
80) Fall from grace
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
"A controversial and provocative novel about a prominent Chicago family and the winds of scandal and betrayal that threaten to bring it down." "With more than 15 million books in print, Andrew M. Greeley is known as a writer who can reach out to readers with superb stories that uncover the hidden passions in men and women, stories that reveal the essential nature of love, risks, and pursuits. In Fall from Grace, he demonstrates once again his keen...