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Dreamers of the Day: A Novel
20 reviews
Mary Doria Russell
Ballantine Books
, 2008
Dreamers of the Day
Another unbelievable reading experience! Mary Doria Russell continues to astound the reader with incredibly personal experiences with her characters and settings. Dreamers of the Day permits the reader a fictional view into a time and place little discussed--1921 in Egypt--with a very current theme--the Middle East and Arab peoples. With every one of her novels, she leaves me breathless for ...
Children of God
Russell Mary Doria
Villard
, 1998
Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most ...
Children of God (Audio Cassettes)
96 reviews
Mary Doria Russell
Random House Audio
, 1998
A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT TREATISE ON PERSONAL THEOLOGY - A TRUE CLASSIC
Theology can become a distant logical exercise of dry doctrine and easy theoretical conclusions. When it comes down to the wet choices of real life most such theoretical Theology is found wanting as it can offer only limited answers. This is Theology of the other kind, the real one. Mary Doria Russell has created a highly intelligent story: what would the story of a future saint be? Say, a ...
A Thread of Grace
Russell Mary Doria
Random House
, 2005
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God. It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with ...
Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
Ballantine Books
, 1999
The Sparrow
457 reviews
Mary Doria Russell
Villard
, 1996
wonderful
I have read thousands of books... This is THE best books I have ever read. I am not a religious person, I have no God, I have read the bible, the Koran and alot of other religious texts. This being said and stated above. This is a story of love, discovery, and the search for faith in the most extreme and at the same time closest place...the human, and alien soul. Bar none the best ...
A Thread of Grace
77 reviews
Mary Doria Russell
Doubleday
, 2005
An Inspiring Tale of Human Courage
As I have indicated in my many reviews of books from this period, I am a fan of tales of the human courage that was displayed throughout Europe in WW2 by ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of incredible danger. In as expert a fashion as Alan Furst in The Polish Officer: A Novel and Douglas W Jacobson in Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II, Mary Doria Russell brings us up ...
Sperling.
Mary Doria Russell
Heyne
, 2000
Gottes Kinder.
Mary Doria Russell
Heyne
, 2000
Le moineau de Dieu
Mary Doria Russell
Albin Michel
, 2000
Sperling.
Mary Doria Russell
Heyne
, 2000
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