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Jack Ryan volume 5
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English
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Jack Ryan, CIA analyst, must rescue Colonel Filitov, America's highest agent in the Kremlin, from the KGB as the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system continues.
2. The cardinal
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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An "absorbing . . . magnificent" novel about an ordinary Irish Catholic man who ascends the church hierarchy to become Cardinal in the early twentieth century. (Boston Herald) A selection of the Literary Guild, The Cardinal was published in more than a dozen languages and sold over two million copies. Later made into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Huston, the book tells a story that captured the nation's...
3. The Cardinal
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Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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This informative guide follows a year in the life of the Northern Cardinal with evocative text and gorgeous color photography. Author June Osborne and photographer Barbara Garland capture the beauty and intrigue of this striking songbird. They describe how cardinals stake out territory and choose mates, find a nesting site, incubate their eggs, feed the young and prepare them for full-fledged independence. "The Cardinal" also explores the special...
4. The Cardinal
Publisher:
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
Description:
Epic drama about the rise of a socially conscious Irish American priest through the ranks to Cardinal.
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Headline Review
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"In this thrilling novel of friendship and betrayal at the royal court, the New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the rise of Thomas Wolsey, who was Henry VIII's chief advisor-until the king accused him of treason"--
Alison Weir's novel traces the dramatic rise and fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, trusted advisor to Henry VIII. From humble beginnings to becoming the most powerful man in England after the king, Wolsey's...
6. The Cardinal
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Publisher:
Stephanie Huesler
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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EIGHTH CENTURY ADIn the Highlands of Scotland, the Maldorians, a mysterious people of mist and whispers, live together with a Pictish clan until Vikings descend upon them with sudden fury. Scattered in defeat, will their remnants ever be reunited? Will those taken as slaves by the Northmen ever regain freedom and find their way back home? Finding each other will be like finding a golden blade of grass in an autumnal vale. Can Aradan survive among...
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English
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Lifelong friends and occasional rivals, Kevin Brennan and Patrick Donahue enter seminary together, but their lives soon diverge dramatically. Intellectual and independent, Kevin achieves success as a scholar but often finds himself at odds with his superiors in the Church. And his unwavering principles threaten to cut him off from those closest to him—including the former sweetheart he has never forgotten.
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Amy Cissell
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Eleanor Morgan is faced with an impossible choice. Destroy the world of her birth or the world in which she was raised? Sent away from the Fae court and raised as a human, Eleanor never knew of the Fae realm. Now, the summer before her 35th birthday, the man she thought was her best friend reveals her destiny - to open the gates that prevented free and easy passage between the land of the Fae and the human realm.As Eleanor and Finn begin their quest,...
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Publisher:
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Classic biography of Cardinal Samuel Stritch (1887-1958), who served as archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal. "Samuel A. Stritch was a priest for forty-eight years and it can be said in all truth that his life was concentrated and wholly spent in the priesthood. When as a young man he felt the first stirrings of his priestly vocation, he began to reflect and meditate assiduously on the priesthood. Even in those early years he seemed to understand fully...
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Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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What makes for a good life? The seven deadly vices and seven holy virtues, ingrained in our cultural imagination, help us answer this perennial question. For two millennia, these fourteen character traits have stirred our imagination of human nature and desire. Sometimes, however, lists like the seven deadly sins remain mere caricatures that shame and exclude. The world, however, is not divided up into priests and convicts, saints and sinners, virtuous...
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Publisher:
Parson's Porch
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Beauty in God's world is everywhere. In fact, it is so all encompassing, it is too easy to run along through life and never really "see" what is all around. Oh sure, a great work of art, a sculpture, a little beaming child, a cuddly puppy, a field of flowers-I may notice those and pause a moment to take it in, but otherwise the pressures of schedule, personal interactions, work and just living in our complicated world can take over and block the "view."...
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Publisher:
Newman Springs Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Ned Harrison and Kitten Lang are tied together by dreams. Both have seen each other and discover who they both are. They have seen in dreams red floating feathers and flying cardinals, the unhappy dead who have been betrayed, who are pleading for help and justice to be done. All which ties to a murder case. It will take all the skills as a detective and a witch solve the case, but death says, "Danger is at the door." And Ned Harrison will get the...
Series:
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
520L
Language:
English
Description:
"When a beloved Dalmation goes missing while cousins Mike and Kate are in St. Louis for a Cardinals game, they rush to investigate and find a ransom note." --
Publisher:
Ellerslie Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The Cardinal Anthology is a collection of social, reproductive, environmental, and economic justice themed essays, poetry, and short stories written by West Virginia authors. Contributors include Stewart Acuff, Kayla Daniels, Donna Joy, Jim Koenig, Leah Moran Rampy, Josh Oster, and Leslie Williams.