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Two teenage girls claim that they are pregnant virgins. But only one is carrying the child of Christ . . . and the other will deliver the son of Satan.
In Boston, seventeen-year-old Kathleen is pregnant, but she swears she's a virgin. In Ireland, another teenage girl, Colleen, discovers she is in the same impossible condition. Cities all around the world are suddenly overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse.
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In Boston, seventeen-year-old Kathleen is pregnant, but she swears she's a virgin. In Ireland, another teenage girl, Colleen, discovers she is in the same impossible condition. Cities all around the world are suddenly overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse.
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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A young altar boy questions his impoverished family's hard-line Catholic beliefs in the face of his father's weapons-plant job, his mother's diagnosis with cancer, and a peer's struggles against the pressures of growing up too fast.
14) Lying awake
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, Sister John of the Cross experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is considered a spiritual master. But they are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice since she fears a "cure" may end her spiritual gifts.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, survived for some special purpose.
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