Graham Carey This charming book is enjoyed by all ages, but it is very special to the young—whether it is read to them or they read it themselves. Entertaining, humorous and educational, this book contains 30 stories on 30 animals describing what they do and don’t do with their tails—from horses, cats, dogs, porcupines, whales, racoons, pheasants, foxes, snakes, kangaroos, opossum, monkeys, …
The daughter of a King and a Fairy, the Princess Niamh is glorious fair. But her incredible beauty proves a curse when no suitor can withstand even a moment in her presence without running mad. The kingdom's only hope rests upon a mysterious Hermit. With the claws and wings of an eagle, the head and tail of a lion, the mystery of a magician, and the piety of a saint, he alone may hold her. But …
Highly regarded and best-selling literary writer and teacher, Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world’s most revered writer that is sure to be controversial. Unabashedly provocative, with scholarship, insight and keen observation, Pearce strives to separate historical fact from fiction about the beloved Bard. Shakespeare is not only one of the greatest …
Leo Madigan Artistic Danny Mago gets a new job at the St. Martin de Porres Convent with Mother Madeleine, the famous Maori painter, and he approaches the ancient, unused elevator on the Convent grounds, the uneventful tenor of his life takes a decided turn…upwards! The resulting wild adventures become strangely entangled with the quest that has brought beautiful Zelia Mazloum from Turkey to …
Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy Edited by Joseph Pearce Anticipating the great amount of interest in Tolkien’s writings due in part to the major theatrical movie release in late Fall on his classic The Lord of the Rings, this highly readable collection of writings celebrates J.R.R.Tolkien’s great literary legacy and the spiritual values that undergird his imaginary Middle-earth. …
Written before he became an eminent figure in the Church, Michael Novak's first novel, now with an introduction by Ralph McInerny, is an intriguing story about a young man preparing for the priesthood in Rome in the 1950s. The Tiber was Silber provides a unique view of the pre-conciliar Church through the eyes of a young seminarian.
Gerald M. Costello We love to tell stories; we love to hear them. Stories are part and parcel of our lives, and from time immemorial we've used them to pass along what we can of the world's basic truths. Here, for example, is the story of St. Patrick, converting a people with the strength of his faith and the power of his words. Here, closer to our own time, are heroes such as Dorothy Day, the …
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Margot Benary-Isbert Seventeen-year-old Paula has just left behind convent boarding school - to go home. She hasn't been back home for more than two years, and isn't quite prepared for her five rambunctious brothers, two eccentric maiden aunts, bibliophile uncle, and 89 year-old Babbett, not to mention the demands laid on her by energetic Mama. Her father, Judge Eisenberth, at first seems to …
Phillip Ellis Jackson R. A. Varghese The Lucifer Covenant is a theological thriller that pits the world's last remaining exorcist aganst the agents of darkness In the 19th century, Pope Leo XIII witnessed a celestial encounter between God and the Devil. To prove the power of the Church, Satan is allowed to "do his worst" for 100 year period. The enemies of God called this The Lucifer Covenant. …
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