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  Brighton Rock

  by Graham Greene

  With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.
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  The Everlasting Man

  by G. K. Chesterton

  "I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense..." -C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy "G. K. Chesterton routinely ignites more ideas per page than any Christian author of the twentieth century, with the possible exception of C. S. Lewis. Chesterton sometimes overstates, often maddens, and invariably provokes... (more)
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  The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1

  by Sigrid Undset

  Volume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.
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  Ivan and the Secret in the Suitcase

  by Grant Myrna

  Ivan and Katya are in the thick of yet another adventure Smuggling! Can they carry off a smuggling operation right under the noses of suspicious government officials in Soviet Russia? Can they get the much needed warm clothes back to their needy friends and find out if they can take an even greater risk with Bibles. Read how a secret youth prayer meeting, a family holiday to Hungary and a suitcase of old... (more)
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  The Death of a Pope

  by Piers Paul Read

  Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest, seems to be the model of nonviolence and compassion for the poor and downtrodden. So why is he on trial, accused of terrorist activities? His worldwide Catholic charitable outreach program is suspected of being a front for radicals. The trial is covered by Kate Ramsay, a young British reporter, who sets out to uncover the truth about Uriarte and his work.... (more)
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  The Song at the Scaffold: A Novel of Horror and Holiness in the Reign of Terror

  by Freiin von Gertrud Le Fort

  Amid the chaos and horror of the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force, daughter of a smug unbeliever, enters a Carmelite convent. Blanche is so timorous that she seems unsuited to the rigors of religious life even at the best of times - and horribly misplaced as the Reign of Terror begins to stain France with the blood of a new generation of Christian martyrs. Sister Marie, one of the leading nuns in the... (more)
• Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsGerard Manley (Notes By Robert Bridges and W. H. Gardner) Hopkins

  

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  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

  by Gerard Manley (Notes By Robert Bridges and W. H. Gardner) Hopkins

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  Father Elijah: An Apocalypse

  by Michael O'Brien

  "One is almost agog at the dexterity-the artistry really-with which O'Brien shapes enormously charged material into a narrative which exhibits the integrity one finds only in the very best fiction"......Thomas Howard..Author, C.S. Lewis: Man of Letters.
• It's a BattlefieldGraham Greene

  

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  It's a Battlefield

  by Graham Greene

• Margaret Sanger: Father of modern society / by Elasah DroginElasah Drogin

  

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  Margaret Sanger: Father of modern society / by Elasah Drogin

  by Elasah Drogin

• Religion: Doctrine and Practice (Twelfth and Revised Editon)

  

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  Religion: Doctrine and Practice (Twelfth and Revised Editon)

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  Husfrue. (English)

  by Sigrid Undset

  Part two is the story of Kristin's fifteen years of troubled married life on the great estate of Husaby.
• New American Bible New Testament/No. 630/22

  

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  New American Bible New Testament/No. 630/22

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  Collected Short Stories

  by Graham Greene

• Saint Catherine of Siena: By Alice CurtayneAlice Curtayne

  

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  Saint Catherine of Siena: By Alice Curtayne

  by Alice Curtayne

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  The Man Who Was Thursday

  by Gilbert K. Chesterton

  A WILD, MAD, HILARIOUS AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING TALE. It is very difficult to classify "The Man Who Was Thursday." It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, "The Man Who Was Thursday" succeeds superbly; if... (more)
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  Edmund Campion

  by Evelyn Waugh

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  Flannery O'Connor : the contemporary reviews

  by R. Neil Scott

  Despite Flannery O'Connor's brief life, her work, comprising novels, short stories, essays, and articles, has had a great impact on American literature and to some extent popular culture, of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her writing has become well loved, well read, and often studied. This book reprints complete book reviews and excerpts from review essays on the works of Flannery O'Connor that... (more)
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  The Weight of a Mass: A Tale of Faith

  by Josephine Nobisso

  When a poor devout widow begs for a scrap of bread from a rich faithless baker, she promises to participate in the king's wedding mass as payment for the baker's generosity. The baker writes "One Mass" on a scrap of paper and places it on his scale to determine how much bread it is worth. To his and the entire town's surprise, nothing in the shop, not even the gigantic wedding cakes made for the king, outweighs... (more)
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  The Mystery of Things (The Ashland Grail Cycle)

  by Debra Murphy

  The myth of St. George-and-the-Dragon comes to new and provocative life in this mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee. This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady, and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they're just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders,... (more)