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Parish Library Spotlight - 10/02/2022
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Some brand-new/new-to-us works of fiction have recently been added to the library inventory. So if you enjoy reading novels, check these out!
A Hiker’s Guide to Purgatory - One morning, 77 year-old attorney Dan Geary, finds himself in the middle of a rolling, polychrome landscape. He has never seen anything quite like it. But somehow—with the doctors and beeping monitors suddenly gone—he knows exactly where he is: the afterlife. With no clue how long his hike will take, he gradually learns—through memories and through encounters with other Heaven-bound hikers—how to desire the good, how to wait, and how to long for love.
The Lacemaker: A Novel of St. Zelie Martin - This historically-based, fictional diary of Zelie Martin’s life is a fictional glimpse at the most intimate thoughts, fears, and desires of the woman known mainly as the mother of St. Therese of Lisieux.
The Sleeping Witness - In this unusual murder mystery, the tranquility of Saint Mary's Abbey is shattered by the discovery of a gruesome crime in a cottage on the abbey grounds. It is not long before Fr. Gabriel and his companions find themselves embarking on a dangerous journey into the victims' troubled war histories and a chapter of Europe's bloodiest conflict that is almost too terrible to be acknowledged.
Tobit’s Dog - Despite the ever-present oppression of the Jim Crow South around him, Tobit Messager had become a prosperous and well-respected man. Then one day forces beyond his control start a cascade of misfortune that leaves him blind and nearly destitute. This retelling of the biblical story of Tobit, set in North Carolina during the Depression, brings to life in surprising ways the beloved Old Testament characters, including the important but often overlooked family dog.
Stalin’s Priests -The Catholic Church has been infiltrated with evil traitors hell bent on its destruction. And KGB agent Rolf Wozack is poised to thrust the final dagger! Stalin’s Priest takes the reader on a spellbinding, page turning, thrill ride with international mystery and intrigue.
Windswept House - The Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible
until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious
interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single
global society. Utopia. From America to Europe to Russia, in broad landscapes and clandestine corridors, a rich and varied cast--presidents and politicos, simple saints and savvy sinners, popes and pope-makers--clash with one another amid dramatic and sometimes bloody events that will affect the destiny of every person alive today.
