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Mexico, the late 1930s: A paramilitary group has outlawed the Catholic Church and been executing its clergy. Now the last priest is on the run, fleeing not just an unshakable police lieutenant but also his own wavering morals. As he scraps his way toward salvation, haunted by an affair from his past, the nameless "whiskey priest" is pulled between the bottle and the Bible, tempted to renounce his religion yet unable to ignore the higher calling he's...
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2020.
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In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, sixteen-year-old Seol, an indentured servant within the police bureau, becomes entangled in a politically-charged investigation into the murder of a noblewoman.
1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned, Seol is indentured to the police bureau. She has been tasked with assisting a well-respected young inspector with the investigation into the politically charged murder of a noblewoman. The two form an unlikely bond...
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Flux
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"In 1936 San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Willa MacCarthy is bound for the convent. But when she discovers her love of medicine, she will defy her family and work with a female doctor to care for those building the Golden Gate Bridge"--
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Sister Fidelma novels volume 27
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Shocked to learn that a loyal advisor to the king has been murdered in an enemy fortress and that the chief suspect is scheduled to be brutally executed, Fidelma is challenged to sift through overwhelming evidence to clear the suspect's name and identify the true killer.
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Ediciones Lea
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2018.
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Español
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Si el relato policiaco es la expresión más temprana de la vida y la ciudad modernas, ¿quién mejor propone Chesterton que un sacerdote para descifrarla? Surge así uno de los más entrañables personajes literarios, el padre Brown. Armado con una sombrilla y el profundo conocimiento de lo humano adquirido en el confesionario, el despistado cura para quien desacreditar la razón es mala teología desentraña crímenes y misterios en los que la verdad...
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Sister Fidelma novels volume 31
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Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess Gelgeis, has disappeared, Fidelma with her trusted companions, Eadulf and Enda, enter...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2012.
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English
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Set in 1920's England, the story examines the wealthy Flyte family through the eyes of Sebastian Flyte's less wealthy school friend Charles Ryder, who is eventually tempted into an extramarital affair with Sebastian's sister, Lady Julia. The novel is a story of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world.
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