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The Passion of Mary-Margaret, by Lisa Samson

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In her book, The Passion of Mary-Margaret, author Lisa Samson tells an entertaining, uplifting, and encouraging story where the gifts of the Spirit are manifested by the main characters as they lead us to a better understanding of Jesus’ Divine Mercy.

The book cover shows a picture of a lighthouse in the background and a religious sister holding a wooden rosary in her left hand, dressed on a white jacket and skirt set.  The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and the grass is bright green. These symbols of peace, hope, trust, and faith are key elements in the development of the story. [Read more...]

A World Away by T. J. Smith

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A World Away is author T.J. Smith’s first book in the Quest of Dan Clay series, a leap of faith saga to save a missing older brother from an evil parallel world.

The book cover shows a gloomy castle standing on the top of a mountain, surrounded by creepy trees and a bewitched full moon, as if to say to uninvited visitors: beware, beware, beware…!

Dan Clay is a high school senior who looks like a nerd. He is smart, shy, wears glasses, and his non-athletic body makes him the perfect target for the two known school bullies, Sur and Malice. [Read more...]

On the Novel with a Purpose by G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton by John Murphy(from The Thing: Why I am a Catholic, first published 1929)

I see that Mr. Patrick Braybrooke and others, writing to the CATHOLIC TIMES, have raised the question of Catholic propaganda in novels written by Catholics. The very phrase, which we are all compelled to use, is awkward and even false. A Catholic putting Catholicism into a novel, or a song, or a sonnet, or anything else, is not being a propagandist; he is simply being a Catholic. Everybody understands this about every other enthusiasm in the world. [Read more...]

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