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Although Sherlock Holmes categorically dismissed, in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," supernatural explanations for corporeal crimes ("This Agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. ... No ghosts need apply"), one of the most popular among Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales is The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), in which the fate of a Devonshire family supposedly hangs on the savage appetites of an apparitional beast. More than a century later, in The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr again presents the hawk-faced consulting detective with a yarn woven of paranormal plot threads, the mystery this time rooted in the fatal 16th-century stabbing of David Rizzio, a music teacher and confidant to Mary, Queen of Scots.
For Holmes and his affable annalist, Dr. John Watson, this spirited escapade begins sometime in the late 19th century with their receipt, in London, of an encrypted telegram from Sherlock's eccentric elder brother, Mycroft, "a senior but anonymous government official." It summons them to Edinburgh, Scotland, where architect Sir Alistair Sinclair and his foreman, Dennis McKay, have been slain in the midst of rehabilitating the medieval west tower of the Royal Palace of Holyrood--the very wing where Queen Mary had lived, and where Rizzio had met his brutal, politically motivated end. Mycroft fears these murders portend new threats against Britain's present monarch--the elderly Queen Victoria, who infrequently lodges at the palace--by a known assassin, perhaps in nefarious league with the German Kaiser. En route north, Holmes and Watson are menaced aboard their train by a red-bearded bomb thrower (supposedly a rabid Scots nationalist), only to discover that still greater dangers await them, and others, at Holyroodhouse. The plaintive drone of a weeping woman, cruelly punctured and shattered corpses, a pool of blood "that never dries," and a disembodied Italian voice with unexpected musical tastes all imply the wrath of wraiths behind recent atrocities. But Holmes and Watson deduce that greed, rather than ghosts, may be to blame.
Carr, who earned renown with his historical mysteries, The Alienist (1994) and The Angel of Darkness (1997), apparently intended The Italian Secretary to be a short story; however, he couldn't stop writing. The result is a fleet-footed, atmospherically gothic, and often amusing Holmes tale (with an exposition scene in Watson's bed chamber that's truly priceless), but one that makes scant attempt to enhance our understanding of Conan Doyle's characters--a less ambitious undertaking, in that respect, than Mitch Cullin's concurrently published A Slight Trick of the Mind. And while Carr displays a gift here for adopting another author's literary techniques, it is really his own style and series players that his fans are waiting to see more of in the future. --J. Kingston Pierce
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdered themselves en route—the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen’s servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh.
Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen’s life. But the circumstances of the two victims’ deaths also call to Holmes’ mind the terrible murder—in Holyrood—of “The Italian Secretary,” David Rizzio. Only Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered three centuries ago. Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the announcement that the Italian Secretary’s vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination.
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Caleb Carr’s brilliant new offering takes the Conan Doyle tradition to remarkable new heights with this spellbinding tale.
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Much Ado About Nothing - Sherlock Holmes On Qualudes.......2007-09-30
Having been a fan of Carr since his voracious 19th century thriller The Alienist, I was expecting alot more out of The Italian Secretary than I got. Carr had been chosen by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate to continue on with the Sherlock Holmes mythos and this seemed like a marriage made in heaven. What The Italian Secretary reads like is not homage but tired copycat prose. It feels like Carr just picked up a copy of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, read it, and wrote The Italian Secretary. Not once did it grab me like any of Conan Doyle's Holmes mysteries. Not once. This is an exercise in cliches, and that's about it. Where The Alienist and The Angel Of Darkness were complete and tight, The Italian Secretary seems to have been hurriedly slapped together. There is no real mystery here. The entire situation is solved well before the end of the book. Maybe the Conan Doyle Estate should have picked Mark Frost (The List Of 7, The 6 Messiahs) to do Holmes, for his books were far more entertaining.
Not Quite So Elementary..........2007-06-12
It can be a daunting task to write a new adventure for one of the literary world's most beloved detectives of all time. The author is certain to open himself up to criticism and to be told that he is no Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But the undertakers of this project knew that much to begin with, and since this work (and the others, all originally intended as short stories) was commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate, the criticism of the novel should not be based upon the author not 'living up' to the standards of Conan Doyle. That was not the point - the point was to create a new adventure for a literary hero in the same vein, and Caleb Carr, who is a masterful storyteller of historical mysteries, has done a commendable job.
"The Italian Secretary" is a mystery set within Holyroodhouse, the legendary palace of Mary, Queen of Scots, situated in Edinburgh, Scotland. The title comes from a story that had circulated through the ages, of an Italain secretary who influenced the queen and was violently killed within her private chambers in an effort to send a message to the Catholic ruler within a Protestant nation. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves drawn into this other-worldly mystery at Holyroodhouse through Holmes' brother, Mycroft, an agent and protector of Queen Victoria, with whom he shares a close and confidential relationship. When two young Scotsmen are found murdered within the castle grounds, rumors fast fly that it is the spirit of the Italian secretary seeking revenge for his hundred-years-old murder. Yet Watson and Holmes know that a supernatural explanation cannot be behind the truth, and set out to uncover the real murderous happenings in the royal palace, an adventure that finds them risking their own lives, and questioning their belief in the supernatural.
While some criticisms of this book may naturally be founded in the fact that Conan Doyle did not like using the supernatural in detective stories; but perhaps the most popular of the Holmes' stories, "The Hound of the Baskervilles", involves the supernatural to a great length (and a debunking of that in the end). This same concept is applied to "The Italian Secretary" with aplomb and ease. Caleb Carr naturally captures the relationship and repartee between Watson and Holmes; the pacing and subtle twists of the mystery are in keeping with Conan Doyle's style, as are the revelations of clues that only Sherlock Holmes can perceive. Caleb Carr has certainly ascertained his place in the literary world with "The Alienist" series and further adds to his merit with "The Italian Secretary". Since it seems to be the mode in today's literature to take famous literary characters and create new stories for them, sometimes with disastrous effect, it is a joy to read an imagining from an author who is worthy of breathing new life into such a beloved character.
Boredom Abounds.......2007-04-19
I've never read a Sherlock Holmes novel so if the excercise of this book was to get as close to the original as possible yet provide a new adventure for the old slueth and his fans, then I have no idea if the author accomplished his mission. But if I were reading this for pure entertainment, as I was, then I'd have to say that this book was a real yawner. The best thing to say about it was that it was relatively short. I just don't see Sherlock having any relevance in todays world. His deductive reasoning, his thinking process and jumps of reasoning are talked out with his sidekick Watson, and seem like self-fulfilled prophesies. He deduces it so it must be true. I'd like to see him be so wrong that the result is somebody close to him bites the bullet.
The Game's Afoot!.......2007-04-02
I enjoyed Caleb Carr's The Italian Secretary. Any Holmes fan big or small can appreciate the effort put forth by Mr. Carr in this enjoyable novel penned as a "further adventure of Sherlock Holmes" The story takes place in the ghost infested Holyroodhouse which was the castle of the ill fated Mary Queen of Scots. A cryptic message from Mycroft Holmes protrayed here in a rather unpleasant light as the bigger less able brother of Sherlock sends Dr. Watson and Mr Holmes hurtling towards Edninburgh.
What Carr has done well is imitate the chatty descriptiveness of Dr. Watson's writing with a fairly well done plot that is mildly suspenseful. It is filled with historical data and interesting history of the surroundings. What is less impressive to me is the portrayal of Holmes who doesn't really get to shine with his detective skills and deductions. He is rather in the background to Watson's verbose prose and thoughts. All in all though, it is a good work with an enjoyable plot with a little supernatural drama thorwn in for good measure. Well done!
A little disappointed.......2007-03-17
I've read Caleb Carr before and the book pulled you in with the mystery and Sherlock Holmes. This book did not keep my interest as much as it should. It was engaging but very predictable.
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In Dakota Born, veteran author Debbie Macomber introduces readers to the town of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, a struggling farming community. Buffalo Valley is dying. But its citizens won't give up on the town where generations have lived, loved, raised families, worked hard, and died. When Savannah-born Lindsay Snyder decides to accept the teaching position in Buffalo Valley, she brings a breath of fresh air with her. Lindsay is trying to escape a stalled romance and learn more about her family, especially her grandmother Gina, who lived her entire life in the tiny town. Buffalo Valley has its share of characters, including Hassie Knight, the matriarch of this small community; Buffalo Bob Carr, the ex-biker who won the local watering hole in a poker game; and Gage Sinclair, the handsome farmer whose roots are deeply planted in the fertile soil of this North Dakota village. But Gage refuses to believe that Lindsay will find any reason to stay so far from the bright lights of the big city she recently called home. And Lindsay despairs that Gage will never comprehend that she has the best reason to remain--love, for him. With its many story lines, Dakota Born is more novel than romance, but Macomber's loyal enthusiasts and those new to Macomber's magic touch will be rooting for the little town that won't say die. --Alison Trinkle
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Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. Like so many small Midwest towns, it's dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks cracked, houses need a coat of paint. But despite all that, there's a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The people still living in Buffalo Valley are fighting for their town.
Lyndsay Snyder is a newcomer. She's an outsider, even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house again, to explore family secrets and to reevaluate her life.
To her own astonishment, she decides to stay, to accept the vacant position of teacher. Her decision marks a new beginning for Buffalo Valley and for Lyndsay, who discovers in this broken little town the love and purpose she's been seeking.
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Looking forward to the next book.......2007-09-23
Enjoyed reading this and look forward to the next book in the triology. Have liked all of Debbie' books, that I have read.
Reasonably good.......2007-08-17
Thought this was reasonably okay, but not great. It was a little too similar to her other books, and really didn't say anything all that unique. But it was enjoyable, like eating cotton candy--You're happy when you're reading it, but if you think back on it, you just shrug.
You might want to try a much better summer read that I absolutely adored, called Pieces of My Sister's Life. Or buy the two books together, like I did, and compare good writing to great writing...
Enjoyable.......2007-07-05
I am from North Dakota and that's why I decided to read this book. I enjoyed it every much. I read to take me away, I read for entertainment and enjoyment. And I got both out of this book. I would highly recommend reading Dakota Home, which I thought was even better and plan to read Always Dakota and Buffalo Valley.
Debbie Macomber speaks to the heart.......2004-11-19
Debbie Macomber's books are not my usual style - they are slow paced, formula-driven with not much plotting, and I find them "hard to get into", yet I have read many, many of her books and am trying to find them all. What keeps pulling me back again and again? Simply put, it is the people in her books. These are not made-up-characters for a novel or a movie, but these are real people! I like the fact that she doesn't make her characters perfect - they don't act like they're on a stage, but rather they do and say things the way people *really* would in real life. In Debbie Macomber's books, I always recognize all the people I know - friends, relatives, my neighbor-next-door - and more times than I would care to admit, I recognize myself! It is these flawed but real characters that keep drawing me to her books, again and again and again.
In Dakota Born, Debbie Macomber introduces us to the dying farm community of Buffalo Valley, and as we slowly get to know each of the people in the community, we come to care about them - and understand their lives, their hopes, their dreams - not to mention the staple of all her books - the romance and sweet happily ever after. And as I was reading further into the book, I was rooting for this farm community to blossom and grow, and being that this is Debbie Macomber, I'm sure that this is exactly what will happen! Being a city girl born and bred, I found it fascinating to read about the people who live in these rural areas - the backbone and bread-and-butter of America. Ms. Macomber made me realize how hard their lives are - yet rewarding as well. And I have this overwhelming urge to write to all these important government officials to tell them to give the farmers better prices for their grain and corn!
I love Debbie Macomber, and I love her books. I am trying to buy them all (instead of getting them from the library), so that I can read them over and over again. Dakota Born is one of her very best books, with all the elements that make her so very much loved by her fans.
AWESOME BOOK !!!!.......2004-06-23
By Far, THE BEST book I have EVER read (and I've read ALOT) !! I LOVED the story, the characters, the town !! You HAVE to read this trilogy !! I'm starting on the second one now. :-)
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Born Brothers
Larry Woiwode
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Poetic Reality: Wiowode's World is Wonderful.......2001-05-22
This novel, it must be said, is not quite as good as Wiowode's finest, 'Beyond the Bedroom Wall.' But Wiowode's second best is anyone else's excellent. As North Dakota's poet, Wiowode uses prose in stark, image-packed lines to tell the story of two brothers, their respective roads through triumph and tragedy. Though Wiowode is a Christian (Presbyterian), he doesn't flinch as his characters grapple with homosexuality and even sibling experimentation. Alchoholism, a factor in Wiowode's own life, also plays a role, as does the uncharacteristic (for a modern novel) love of parents found almost solely in Wiowode. This is a beautifully-crafted book, a story about faith, sin, lostness, and love. Redemptive, yes. But not cheaply so. Highest recommendation.
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Looking forward to the next book.......2007-09-23
Enjoyed reading this and look forward to the next book in the triology. Have liked all of Debbie' books, that I have read.
Reasonably good.......2007-08-17
Thought this was reasonably okay, but not great. It was a little too similar to her other books, and really didn't say anything all that unique. But it was enjoyable, like eating cotton candy--You're happy when you're reading it, but if you think back on it, you just shrug.
You might want to try a much better summer read that I absolutely adored, called Pieces of My Sister's Life. Or buy the two books together, like I did, and compare good writing to great writing...
Enjoyable.......2007-07-05
I am from North Dakota and that's why I decided to read this book. I enjoyed it every much. I read to take me away, I read for entertainment and enjoyment. And I got both out of this book. I would highly recommend reading Dakota Home, which I thought was even better and plan to read Always Dakota and Buffalo Valley.
Debbie Macomber speaks to the heart.......2004-11-19
Debbie Macomber's books are not my usual style - they are slow paced, formula-driven with not much plotting, and I find them "hard to get into", yet I have read many, many of her books and am trying to find them all. What keeps pulling me back again and again? Simply put, it is the people in her books. These are not made-up-characters for a novel or a movie, but these are real people! I like the fact that she doesn't make her characters perfect - they don't act like they're on a stage, but rather they do and say things the way people *really* would in real life. In Debbie Macomber's books, I always recognize all the people I know - friends, relatives, my neighbor-next-door - and more times than I would care to admit, I recognize myself! It is these flawed but real characters that keep drawing me to her books, again and again and again.
In Dakota Born, Debbie Macomber introduces us to the dying farm community of Buffalo Valley, and as we slowly get to know each of the people in the community, we come to care about them - and understand their lives, their hopes, their dreams - not to mention the staple of all her books - the romance and sweet happily ever after. And as I was reading further into the book, I was rooting for this farm community to blossom and grow, and being that this is Debbie Macomber, I'm sure that this is exactly what will happen! Being a city girl born and bred, I found it fascinating to read about the people who live in these rural areas - the backbone and bread-and-butter of America. Ms. Macomber made me realize how hard their lives are - yet rewarding as well. And I have this overwhelming urge to write to all these important government officials to tell them to give the farmers better prices for their grain and corn!
I love Debbie Macomber, and I love her books. I am trying to buy them all (instead of getting them from the library), so that I can read them over and over again. Dakota Born is one of her very best books, with all the elements that make her so very much loved by her fans.
AWESOME BOOK !!!!.......2004-06-23
By Far, THE BEST book I have EVER read (and I've read ALOT) !! I LOVED the story, the characters, the town !! You HAVE to read this trilogy !! I'm starting on the second one now. :-)
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wonderful series set in buffalo valley north dakota!picturesque novels of the prairie and the proud hardworking people who live there....come in see them.
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Letters Of Love-Chase and Kate.......2002-02-28
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dinner with chase set up by those sneaky kids.
favorite scene with chase-
meeting with kate in a dark, smoky restaurant.
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Harry Turtledove marches on through history with The Great War: Walk in Hell. In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (How Few Remain), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand's assassination in 1914 (The Great War: American Front), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson's CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky into Pennsylvania, a Mormon uprising against the USA consumes Utah, and a black socialist rebellion distracts the CSA, where slavery has ended but blacks still await full citizenship.
Walk in Hell takes us from fall, 1915, through 1916. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen continue the fight, but much happens behind the lines too. Turtledove's characters include Jewish immigrants who are socialist and antiwar, a widow running a coffee house in CSA-occupied Washington, D.C., who passes information to the USA, and two Canadian farmers living under U.S. occupation in Quebec and Manitoba. He vividly conveys the human side of war. When Joe Hammerschmitt gets a shoulder wound in the Virginia trenches:
... pain warred with exultation on his long, thin face. Exultation won. 'Got me a hometowner, looks like,' he said happily. Half the men up there with him made sympathetic noises; the other half looked frankly jealous. Hammerschmitt was going to be out of the firing line for weeks, maybe months, to come, and they still risked not just death but horrible mutilation every day.
Some find Turtledove's cast too large, the story's action too slow. Others complain that Walk in Hell is too similar to his Worldwar series. Alternate history buffs, however, will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time, and find it hard to wait for the next in the series. --Nona Vero
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The year is 1915, and the world is convulsing. Though the Confederacy has defeated its northern enemy twice, this time the United States has allied with the Kaiser. In the South, the freed slaves, fueled by Marxist rhetoric and the bitterness of a racist nation, take up the weapons of the Red rebellion. Despite these advantages, the United States remains pinned between Canada and the Confederate States of America, so the bloody conflict continues and grows. Both presidents--Theodore Roosevelt of the Union and staunch Confederate Woodrow Wilson--are stubbornly determined to lead their nations to victory, at any cost. . .
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A four book series by Harry Turtledove - The American Front, How Few Remain, Walk in Hell, Breakthroughs - alternate history.
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In this spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. The celebrated editor of Practicing Our Faith asks hard questions about how our injurious attitude toward time has distorted our relationships with our innermost selves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God.
As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery, Receiving the Day offers a language of attention, poetry, and celebration. Bass encourages us to reevaluate our understanding of the temporal and thereby to participate fully in the Christian practice of knowing time as God's gift. Embraced in this way, time need not be wrestled with each day. Instead, time becomes the habitation of blessing.
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Surprisingly thought-provoking.......2006-02-23
As an avid reader, I find that an increasing number of the books I read simply re-hash old, familiar ideas. I read this book in preparation for a Church retreat, and was expecting a typical, look-at-your-priorities to prioritize-your-activites type of book - time management with a spiritual slant. What I found was much deeper than that.
The book proposes a fundamental shift in our psychology of approaching time; changing our entire attitude to one of gratitude, reverence, an attunement to natural (divine) rhythms. But don't think it's all abstract philosophy - the book is every bit as practical as it is philosophical. I don't know that I'd go as far as to call it life-changing... But it's definitely nudging me in a whole new mental direction.
Highly recommended for the (like me) hassled and harried.
A Wonderful Appreciation of Time.......2001-09-23
Without a doubt, this little book is one of the most helpful spiritual books of the new century. Bass takes a careful look at how we view and use time. Her citations of other authors, especially poets, are well chosen and lyric. This is a book to savor, to stimulate meditation, and to return to. May I suggest it as the perfect Christmas present for someone who is not too superficial to appreciate it?
A reevaluation of how we think about time.......2000-06-25
The most striking point made in this book, from my perspective, was the notion that the Jewish concept of day from sundown to sundown reflected the creation story of Genesis in the sense that first God acts, later people are drawn into the equation. If insights such as that excite you, you will enjoy this book.
The book is written in a very personal style - how Dorothy C. Bass has come to see and use time. This results occassionally in some reader disconnects e.g. her assumption that a church could not refrain from Christmas carols during Advent - I come from a church that does not use Christmas carols until the Christmas vigil. But these "disconnects" also are a strength for the book - she is not giving you a list of how-to's, but rather inviting you to reevaluate time in your life ... with a recognition that that will have similarities and differences from what it means in her life.
This book is recommended for everyone - and especially needed by individuals planning liturgical season.
What a wonderful, soulful book!.......2000-02-04
Bass doesn't preach at us from on high, but rather bears witness to her own struggles to keep sabbath and receive time as a blessing and gift instead of as a problem or enemy. Bass describes how "receiving the day" can become a way-of-life practice, and she relates this activity to other core practices that give life character and integrity (see "Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People," which Bass edited.) Bass grounds her analysis of time in contemporary research from a social scientific perspective, such as A.R. Hochschild's "The Time Bind" and R. Levine's "A Geography of Time." Bass's deeper grounding, however, is in the practical wisdom of the Jewish and Christian traditions for living faithfully in the rhythms of days, weeks, and years. Drawing on the biblical story of the creation of time (Genesis 1), Bass invites us to consider what difference it would make in our lives if we viewed dusk instead of dawn as the beginning of each new day. Observing how digital clocks now synchronize our global economy, Bass notes with irony how Benedictine monks invented the clock to call the community to prayer at set hours during the course of the day. The challenge for us today is not to "turn back the clock," of course, but to learn how to live freely and humanly within a 24x7 society. I enthusiastically recommend "Receiving the Day" to anyone who cares to ponder how we dwell together as creatures within time. This book prompted deep personal reflection about the ways I spend my time, and it also inspired the design of a playful worship service for our congregation's annual Family Camp. A great book for adult study groups and sermon ideas. To open "Receiving the Day" is to open a thoughtfully chosen, carefully crafted gift.
Bass opens gift of time to readers.......2000-01-05
This beautiful book can change the way you view each day. Are you in a struggle with time or can you learn to embrace it? How is your life shaped by the Christian year and its seasons? How do you practice the sabbath? Bass answers these and many other questions central to our faith. She does so by sharing her personal experiences and those of her fellow believers. This deeply spiritual book is sure to change the way you view your life, your creator and the world we share.
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