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"First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars-the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain-Saito Ren-whom she knows nothing about. She is commanded to spy on Captain Ren by the Sisterhood,...
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In Indonesia, an American gaming engineer is coerced into parting with cutting edge Artificial Intelligence software.
But in the wrong hands, it could wreak havoc . . .
A garbled message from his old friend Father Pat West warns President Jack Ryan of an impending technology crisis - and that Father Pat is in deadly danger.
With the Campus on the trail of the potentially destructive computer programme, Jack races to save his friend.
And time is...
23) Home again
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Struggling with her rebellious daughter and her conflicting feelings for a soul-seeking priest and a cynical man, cardiologist Madelaine learns to overcome past betrayals when a tragedy brings them all together.
24) The water keeper
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"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
25) Secrecy: a novel
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Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypocrisy. All forms of pleasure are brutally punished, and the Grand Duke himself, a man for whom marriage has been an exquisite torture, hides his pain beneath a show of excessive piety. The Grand Duke asks Zummo to produce a life-size woman out of wax, an antidote to the French wife who made him suffer...
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c2007
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Civilization has been destroyed by a catastrophe of epic proportions. Mankindd is at war with vampires, an alien life form that appeared when the earth changed. Father Abel Nightroad, Sister Esther Blanchett and Tres Iquis are on the road to their safe harbour, the Vatican, battling vampires along the way. When they finally reach their destination, Rome...
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Dragonvarld trilogy volume 1
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[2003]
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Mistress of Dragons is the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy entitled The Dragonvald. Here is a world where men and dragons coexist amid political intrigue and dark magic, where the uneasy balance of power between the two is on the verge of becoming undone, threatening to unleash waves of destruction that will pit humans against humans as well as dragons against men for the domination of the world. Humanity's very survival is at risk. The power...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Bryn is the daughter of a humble stone-cutter. But the day comes when a spinning thistledown leads Bryn to her destiny - the famous Temple of the Oracle. Here she discovers that her innate gifts make her a terrifying threat to those who seek to abuse the Temple's power for their own glory.
29) Father Stu
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[2022]
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When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
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2008
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A plot to assassinate the Methuselah Emperor is revealed at last, but it's not Radu who is accused of the crime--Ion, Esther and company are suddenly the main suspects. Astharoshe struggles with her own immortality, and how feelings of loyalty and love can change over the course of centuries. Meanwhile, Dietrich has yet another cruel twist of fate in store for his beloved Esther.
31) Overbite
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Insatiable volume 1
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2011.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Now working for the Palatine Guard--a secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican--Meena Harper tries to win over her co-workers as well as her new partner Alaric Wolf while investigating a young priest recently assigned to the case.
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A convict in prison suspected of multiple murders asks that Detective Sargeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former priest andthe man who put him in jail, be brought to the prison so he can make a confession to him. When Ainslie arrives, the convict tells him he should be investigating his own police department for murder.
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c2001
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For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
35) Ascent into hell
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Passover trilogy volume 2
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[1983]
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A priest, raised for the calling, struggles with the pain of choice after he renounces his priesthood.
36) Unwritten
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2013.
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"Sunday leads a solitary existence, spending most of his time reading and fishing on his boat, hidden among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast. It has been years since he has spoken with anyone outside of his priest and confidant, Steady. Because Steady once saved his life, Sunday can't refuse when he asks him to save another. Katie Quinn, a world-famous actress, has been driven by a secret and the pressures of her fame to end her life....
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2014.
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The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
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Bestseller Saul (Suffer the Children) links an exorcism of the devil with a plot to kill the pope in this over-the-top religious thriller. When thugs at a Boston public high school savagely beat 16-year-old Ryan McIntyre, who's struggling with the death of his father in Iraq, Ryan's mother transfers him to a Catholic school. At St. Isaac's Preparatory Academy, where a student's disappearance and other bizarre events have caused worry, a popular priest,...
39) The Dragon's Son
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Dragonvarld trilogy volume 2
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[2004]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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The twin offspring of a high priestess and a dragon are raised secretly and in separate locations in the hope that they will restore order to the Parliament of Dragons.
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2015.
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The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it's...
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