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A fictional account of the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, captures the turbulent world of an idealistic young woman who risks everything to bring a much-needed miracle to her people.

Reimagines the life of Joan of Arc against the backdrop of the Hundred Years' War and traces her violence-marked childhood and fateful effort to save her country.

Francis, the Little Poor One, is so filled with the love of God that he bursts into song, and he is joined by birds of every color.

A tale inspired by the life of the twelfth-century abbess, composer, and prophet depicts a young girl who upon being given to the Church rejects the order's masochistic piety and finds grace in studying books, growing herbs, and rejoicing in divine visions.

"Determined to protect her sister Tess's memory, Callie da Costa sets out to prove Tess wasn't really a saint and finds herself pulled into a kidnapping investigation"--

St. Francis tells an unhappy donkey the story of his marvelous origins through a story of the creation and the nativity.

From the pages of Bardugo's Grisha trilogy comes this illustrated replica of The Lives of Saints, the Istorii Sankt'ya. Featuring tales of saints drawn from the beloved novels and beyond, it includes miracles and martyrdoms from familiar saints like Sankta Lizabeta of the Roses and Sankt Ilya in Chains, to the strange and obscure stories of Sankta Ursula, Sankta Maradi, and the Starless Saint. -- adapted from jacket

A fictional biography of Luke, the author of the third Gospel, told at length and in rich detail. His boyhood in Antioch, his travels, interspersed with visits to his family in Rome, his education in Alexandria, are all covered with a climax in Judaea, where he learned the story of Jesus and acknowledged him as the Christ.

Tells the story of how, in 1223, Saint Francis performed the first reenactment of the birth of Jesus and introduced the traditional Christmas Nativity scene.

Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She establishes herself as the king's seer. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety,...