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The search for a missing history professor, who vanished while visiting the Wind River Reservation, draws Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley into a twenty-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of another historian and into a complex puzzle from the past involving the young Shoshone woman named Sacajawea.
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An American lawyer investigates the assassination of a cardinal in Rome to prove his brother, a priest, did not do it. In the process, Hollywood lawyer Harry Addison discovers a Vatican plot to convert China and restore the Holy Roman Empire. The discovery makes Addison a marked man.
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2013.
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English
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Absalom "Abbie" Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn't keep Abbie's troubled past from making her a misfit in the working-class Irish American enclave of South Buffalo. And now, despite a Harvard degree and a police detective's badge, she still struggles to earn the respect and trust of those she's sworn to protect. But all that may change, once the killing starts. When Jimmy Ryan's...
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Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elegant novels, garnering accolades and awards along the way. Now comes a reissue of the best-selling debut novel that launched her remarkable career. St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not...
10) The reeve's tale
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English
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Simon Perryn, the poor reeve of the village, is driven to distraction by the petty rivalries and hopeless troubles of his neighbors. Thats when things get even worse for Simon: A horrid scandal curses him with a pair of nuns, sent from the nearby nunnery of St. Frideswides to make sure all is kept right in the village. Dame Frevisse, however, suspects that the scandal which has drawn her and the innocent Sister Thomasine from the safety...
11) Basilica
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1998.
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English
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Brother Paul, formerly a Miami homicide cop, is brought to Rome to investigate the death of a priest who fell from the top of St. Peter's Basilica.
13) Abracadaver
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Father Dowling mystery volume 12
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1989.
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English
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Roger Dowling, the compassionate priest of Fox River, Illinois, investigates the complex web of connections behind a ring used in a parish magic show, inscribed with the initials of a missing woman.
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The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whiskey priest who is on the run. In a blur of alcohol and fear, the outlaw always has an adamant lieutenant only a few hours behind who is determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
15) Bad faith
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Sister Agatha volume 1
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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When Father Anselm dies mysteriously while consecrating the host, Sister Agatha, a nun at the cloistered order of The Sisters of the Blessed Adoration in the New Mexico desert, finds herself the prime suspect in the crime.
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In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when hes passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless marriage, and belittled by the wives of more privileged officers, Louise wants out. Feeling responsible for her unhappiness, Henry...
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Viking
Pub. Date
c2002.
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English
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St. Cecilia's Church, a gaudy white elephant to the Catholic archdiocese, must close after the last mass on Easter Sunday, if Father James Flaherty can't raise the money to run it--and what then will become of its parish, residents of Dorsetville, Connecticut, who each seems to need a small miracle of his or her own.
19) Counterparts
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1997.
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English
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An international thriller featuring FBI agent Margaret Chisholm, assigned to protect an American nun in Rome. The nun survived a terrorist bombing of a New Hampshire convent, which killed two dozen people, and the terrorist is expected to try again during her visit to Rome. No one knows why he wants to kill her.
20) Seed of doubt
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Father Dowling mystery volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1993.
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English
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While Father Dowling investigates the death of a wealthy dowager, a second death occurs as the family squabbles over the contents of her will.
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