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Meg Lytton, a young woman in service at Woodstock Palace to the banished Tudor princess Elizabeth, bears a dark and powerful gift and must guard her secret carefully from the many suspicious eyes watching over the banished princess and her companions.

In his most provocative book yet, Pulitzer Prize?-winner Garry Wills asks the radical question: Why do we need priests? Author Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a lifetime of study and reflection, he now poses some challenging questions: Why do we need priests at all? Why did the priesthood arise in a religion that began without it and opposed it? Would Christianity be stronger without the priesthood, as it was at its outset? Meticulously researched, persuasively argued, and certain to spark debate, Why Priests? asserts that the anonymous Letter to Hebrews, a late addition to the New Testament canon, helped inject the priesthood into a Christianity where it did not exist, along with such concomitants as belief in an apostolic succession, the real presence in the Eucharist, the sacrificial interpretation of the Mass, and the ransom theory of redemption. But Wills does not expect the priesthood to fade entirely away. He just reminds us that Christianity did without it in the time of Peter and Paul with notable success.

A translation of twentieth-century Japanese author Shusaku Endo's novel about a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest who faces persecution in Japan.

A priest struggles with his own inner demons when he is called upon to exorcise a mysteriously, violently troubled eleven-year-old girl.

Danny Hansen is a priest who lives by a law of love and compassion. It is powerful men and hypocrites who abide by legal law but eschew the law of love that most incense Danny. As an avenging angel, he believes it is his duty to show them the error of their ways, at any cost.

A young Anglican priest who, unaware that he is dying, is assigned to a remote parish in Canada to minis- ter to an Indian community. Father Mark's gentle struggle to reach an understanding with the Indians mirrors his inner struggle to understand his own situation.

A collection of stories, translated from the Italian language, which tell about the conflicts that arise between priest Don Camillo and his adversary Peppone, the Communist mayor of a small village in Northern Italy.

In the year 2060, Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of Father Miguel Flores and uncovers shocking secrets about the man's past that suggest the beloved priest is not the man his parishioners thought.