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"Hace treinta años, en un terreno baldío de un barrio tranquilo, apereció descuartizado y quemado el cadáver de una adolescente. La investigación se cerró sin culpables y su familia--de clase media educada, formal y católica--silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando. Pero, pasado ese largo tiempo, la verdad oculta saldrá a la luz gracias al persistente amor del padre de la víctima. Esa verdad mostrará con crudeza lo que se esconde detrás las...

Presents a collection of fifteen short stories that feature the exploits of Father Brown, a seemingly doddering priest with a keen ability to solve crimes.

Father O'Malley is the new priest at the Church of St. Dominic in a working-class New York City neighborhood. He fails to make a good first impression with crusty old Father Fitzgibbon, who doesn't approve of O'Malley's golf playing, baseball game attending, or fishing. But O'Malley starts spiffing up the church and its neighborhood: dealing with the church mortgage, which is in arrears, and straightening out the street gangs by getting the boys to...

This is the story of one man's faith, told with unrivaled reflection and candor. William F. Buckley, Jr., was raised a Catholic. As the world plunged into war, and as social mores changed dramatically around him, Buckley's faith -- a most essential part of his make-up -- sustained him. In Nearer, My God, Buckley examines in searching detail the meaning of his faith, and how his life has been shaped and sustained by religious conviction. In highly...

Bishop Blackie Ryan is sent to Paris to find a missing priest who had become a television superstar. Blackie enlists the help of a beutiful young musician he found begging outside a church, and together they attempt to solve the mystery.

Sent to Spain to prevent a murder, Archbishop John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan protects a beautiful widow from avaricious relatives who would seize control of her fortune, an effort that is further complicated by dramatic events back in his Chicago home.

Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass.

Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.

In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, sixteen-year-old Seol, an indentured servant within the police bureau, becomes entangled in a politically-charged investigation into the murder of a noblewoman.