Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining...
Clergy
- Author:Bader, BonnieSummary:
- Author:Green, Simon R.Summary:
Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation involving the wedding of an old friend's daughter, murder, an ancient curse, and Ishamel's memories of before he was human.
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Presents the aged Reverend Harding as warden of the almshouse at Barchester providing charity for the town's neediest, and his life.
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of colonial Massachusetts, she is made to suffer...
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
- Author:DiNovo, CheriSummary:
In The Queer Evangelist, Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (CM) tells her story, from her roots as a young socialist activist in the 1960s to ordained minister in the '90s to member of provincial parliament. As the New Democratic member...
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
Father Koesler goes on vacation, leaving the sleuthing to the visiting Father Zachary Tully.
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process.
- Author:Chesterton, G. K.Summary:
Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? In The Innocence of Father Brown , G.K. Chesterton explores the darker side of human nature—the...
- Author:Pylväinen, HannaSummary:
"Many listeners will be transported and maybe even transfixed by this audiobook. Philippe Spall portrays the inhabitants of a village in 1850s Scandinavia with subtle strength. He navigates parallel plots with energy and clarity,...
- Author:Ashford, JaneSummary:
They're wrong for each other, for all the right reasons... Lord Randolph Gresham has come to London for one reason only-to find a suitable wife. Verity Sinclair may be intelligent, beautiful, and full of spirit, but her father knows a...
- Author:WEST, MorrisSummary:
In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacamo Nerone has inspired talk of saint-hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate - and to try to untangle the web...
- Author:Amorth, GabrieleSummary:
We can do nothing against you because you are too protected! So declared a frustrated host of devils to Father Gabriele Amorth, the priest exorcist in Rome who spent thirty years battling the Devil and his minions by performing more...
- Author:Moore, BrianSummary:
In a bleak Eastern bloc country, someone tries to kill Cardinal Bem. That night, he is kidnapped. He must find out the identity of his captors to avert the revolution that will result from his disappearance.
- Author:Garcia, S. A.Summary:
In a country that has given up hope, Pastor Saul Thompson battles to keep his combination soup kitchen/homeless shelter open. Recently he has started to see Death, which he calls the Black Mantle, hovering over those about to die. Saul...
- Author:MolièreSummary:
- Author:Ramsay, FrederickSummary:
The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E. Lee) and to the Custis family (and thus to George Washington). But these connections don't seem to...
- Author:Macdonald, CatherineSummary:
Reluctant amateur detective, Reverend Charles Lauchlan, departs the prairie city of Winnipeg and travels abroad to Scotland with his fiancé Maggie on a bicycle tour of the Highlands. Two near fatal accidents put members of the tour on...
- Author:Banville, JohnSummary:
The year is 1957, and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford is summoned to County Wexford to investigate the murder of a parish priest, found dead at the home of local artistocrats...
- Author:Emery, AnneSummary:
Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times has Monty Collins wished for a client who is intelligent, articulate and tattoo-free? Now he has one, but it’s not long before his mother’s warning comes back to...