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An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful...
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An American lawyer investigates the assassination of a cardinal in Rome to prove his brother, a priest, did not do it. In the process, Hollywood lawyer Harry Addison discovers a Vatican plot to convert China and restore the Holy Roman Empire. The discovery makes Addison a marked man.
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September 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, Jews, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, the world’s smallest state, a neutral, independent country nestled within the city of Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a...
6) Conclave
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"The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals gather to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. When all is said and done, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth. In their cloistered debate they will uncover abuse and corruption at the very heart of the Church. It's a scandal that could destroy all they hold dear, and they must act decisively to ensure...
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"Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo's best."
-Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys
"One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction."
-Booklist
Mario Puzo's final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is the ultimate crowning achievement of the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist who gave the world...
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"Pulling off an impossible crime is the only way he can stay alive. Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding--and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe's life" --adapted from dust jacket.
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Ex-Navy Seal Nolan Kilkenny is still grieving a personal tragedy when he is unexpectedly called to the Vatican, where the dying Pope Leo XIV has a secret mission for him: rescue Chinese religious prisoner Yin Daoming, who-unbeknownst to the rest of the world-has been a secret cardinal for 20 years. Entrusted with the dangerous truth about an unreported atrocity committed against the underground Church in China and its link to the mysterious Yin Daoming,...
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A shooting in the Vatican leads to a horror beyond imagining for Detective Nic Costa in the first book of this series. The first in the acclaimed Nic Costa series. There's no rest for the wicked ... While Rome is sweltering in the height of summer, a serial killer is on the loose. Sara Farnese is working in the Vatican library, when a man bursts in intent on showing her the contents of his bloodied bag, until a guard shoots him. But why was the man...
12) Conclave
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The story of an American Catholic priest, Timothy John Mulrennan, the choice of a new pope, and "the struggle for the very soul of the oldest and largest Christian body in the world."--Cover.
13) Eminence
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Father Luca Rossini was tortured during the Dirty War in Argentina and only escaped thanks to Isabel with whom he had an affair. Now a cardinal in Rome and front runner in a papal election, Rossini learns that Isabel is coming as the wife of an ambassador and bringing with her their daughter from the affair.
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Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside of Boston, guided by her Catholic faith. When she loses her beloved grandmother, she begins experiencing spells of such intense spiritual intimacy that she wonders about her sanity. Devoted to her elderly father and not particularly interested in dating and socializing, she develops a deep friendship with her parish priest. His congregation sees him as provocative and radical, but he encourages...
15) The Pope's cat
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A stray cat, born on the Via della Conciliazione in Rome, is adopted by the Pope, and she then runs the Vatican from museum to floorboard.
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Cal Donovan volume 1
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Responding to an urgent summons from the Vatican, Harvard professor of religion and archaeology, Cal Donovan, flies to Italy to interview a young priest who has developed the stigmata of the crucifixion. Stunned to discover that the priest's condition may be genuine, Cal determines to uncover the cause of the mysterious wounds.
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The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could re-write history....
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"Getting engaged is supposed to be a fun, exciting time in a girl's life. But things are never that easy for Slash and me. Instead, someone is threatening to expose Slash's past-a past so secret, even I know very little about it. Before I can get used the weight of Nonna's antique ring on my finger, he's on his way to Rome ... and we're farther apart than we've ever been. Still, I have no intention of sitting at home and letting him take on the Vatican...