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1. Dark debts
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Pub. Date:
1996
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English
Description:
"In Dark Debts, Karen Hall masterfully combines southern gothic, romantic comedy, and mystery in a wildly original theological thriller that has become a cult favorite since being published twenty years ago. In this new anniversary edition, the author has reimagined her work. The result is a suspenseful, irreverent, and deeply spiritual novel that captivates from the very beginning and doesn't let go. When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper...
2. The sparrow
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NoveList Series:
Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1.
Series:
Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Emilio Sandoz, a brilliant Jesuit priest, seems like the perfect leader for the first expedition to an extraterrestrial culture. However, when Sandoz returns to Earth 20 years later as the mission's sole survivor, he is accused of unspeakable violence and depravity. Why? An extraordinary fiction debut, by paleoanthropologist Mary Doria Russell.
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NoveList Series:
Li Du novels volume 1.
Series:
Li Du novels volume 1
Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself. When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But...
6. The orenda
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Publisher:
Random House Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years istruly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...
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