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Posted in Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller on Jan 29th, 2008
By Brian Moore
reviewed by John Murphy
The Colour of Blood is a tight, page-turning Catholic thriller in the Graham Greene tradition. The opening sequence hits the ground running: Cardinal Bem, head of the Church in an unnamed Soviet bloc country, is being chauffered back to his residence when
“He saw, peripherally, a black car racing very close […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
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Posted in Fantasy, Young Adult on Jan 18th, 2008
by Regina Doman
reviewed by Tannia E. Ortiz-Lopes
Some books take you traveling into space. Others bring you back in time. But then one day, when you least expect it, you come across a book that grabs your imagination and leads you on a road of adventures and suspense into a world combining elements of fantasy […]
Posted in Classics on Jan 13th, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
François Mauriac, winner of the Nobel Prize and recipient of France’s Legion d’honneur, was among the last century’s most pre-eminent men of letters, and a devout Roman Catholic. Vipers’ Tangle is one of Mauriac’s most famous works, a book of bruising beauty that explores man’s capacity for love and hate, bitterness […]