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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 a young Shoshone woman named Sacajawea.
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 39
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The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
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The town of Rossmore threatens to be bypassed by a new highway that will cut through the nearby Whitehorn Woods. While opinions vary as to whether or not the town will benefit, Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann's Well. Slated for destruction if the road is built, the well is believed by some to be a place of spiritual power, by others a magnet for superstitions.
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First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is a series of stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction, G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown. A Roman Catholic priest, Father Brown has an uncanny insight to human evil. In contrast with the aristocratic arch-villains of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Father Brown solves mysteries involving local murders by small town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down...
6) Conclave
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c2001
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Born and raised in suburban New Jersey, Timothy John Mulrennan has known since childhood a deep and abiding faith in his God and his Church that leads him to a career as a priest-and propels him onto the stage of world events that include the Second Vatican Council, the Vietnam War, and the election of the first Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic church of the third millennium. Along the way he encounters some of the most remarkable characters...
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"The Wind River Reservation has agreed to use their land for a nuclear waste storage site. And why wouldn't they, when they've already been promised so much - millions in revenue, new jobs, and a better way of life. But Vicky Holden knows better. Building this facility isn't about helping the Arapahos. It is about power and greed. And she is ready to do whatever she can to protect the land and her people." "But someone involved wants to keep Vicky...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 12
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The Vatican has just assigned Auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Archbishop Cronin and the not-so-silent protests of Bishop Blackie. Bishop Quill is under the illusion, one might say delusion, that he has been sent from Rome to replace the good Cardinal, when in fact we know that Rome sent him to Chicago to get rid of him because of his incompetence.
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 14
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A poltergeist in the White House? Strange as it sounds, that seems to be the case. A playful spirit, of unknown origin, is at work in the First Residence: rattling chains, slamming doors, dislodging paintings, disrupting press conferences and state dinners.
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Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
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2023.
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"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannf̈fuher Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
13) The Omega Factor
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2022.
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"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...
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Father Dowling mysteries volume 19
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2000
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The police in Fox River, Illinois, disinter a local mobster, only to find an empty coffin, leaving Father Dowling to figure out how the missing corpse is related to a mysterious Italian manuscript.
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Wind River Reservation volume 9
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c2003
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Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and her confidante, Father John O'Malley, find themselves in a deadly struggle over vice, virtue, and murder.
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Father Dowling volume 14
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c1991
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Father Roger Dowling tries to find who murdered his friend's daughter right before she was to enter a convent.
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