As part of a continuing espionage mission, professor Jake MacVeagh, son of a high-ranking CIA operative, is recruited by a mysterious woman to help return his defector uncle to the West

Family Trade

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Carroll, James

Thrillers & Suspense

Little,Brown & Co

What can we believe about, and how can we believe in, Jesus in the twenty-first century, in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities, and the drift from religion that followed? The key lies in Jesus’ Jewishness.
What New York Times bestselling author James Carroll has discovered through decades of writing and lecturing, is that he is far from alone in clinging to a received memory of Jesus that separates him from his crucial identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to us. What can that mean now? Paradoxically, the key is his permanent Jewishness. No Christian himself, Jesus actually transcends Christianity.
Drawing on both a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching as a believer, Carroll takes a fresh look at the most familiar narratives of all – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Far from another book about the “historical Jesus,” he takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy seriously. Starting with Bonhoeffer’s question written in his Nazi cell – “What is bothering me incessantly is the question – Who Christ actually is for us today?”, he retrieves the power of Jesus’ profound ordinariness as an answer both to this question and as the key to a renewal of faith for us all.

Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

William Collins

An exploration of transcendent faith in modern times—from the author of the New York Times–bestselling Constantine’s Sword What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? In this urgent and provocative work, award-winning author James Carroll traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith and to rescue it for the secular age. Far from another book about the “historical Jesus,” Christ Actually takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy, of secularism, seriously. Carroll retrieves the power of Jesus both as an answer to humanity’s perennial longing for transcendence and as a figure of profound ordinariness—his simple life, and his call to imitate him, all suggest an answer to the question “What is the future of Jesus Christ?” This book points the way.

Christ Actually: Reimagining Faith in the Modern Age

History

World

Penguin??Books

Madonna Red

Boston 1976 1st Little Brown. 313pp. Mystery fiction about Irish Republican Army. Fine in VG DJ.

Madonna red

Literature & Fiction

United States

Little,Brown

Colman Brady, an Irish farmer, involves himself in the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s and later escapes to Boston where he rises to and falls from political power and seeks a second chance through the life of his son

Mortal Friends: A Novel

Fault Lines

Little. Brown and Company

As part of a continuing espionage mission, professor Jake MacVeagh, son of a high-ranking CIA operative, is recruited by a mysterious woman to help return his defector uncle to the West

Set against the history of the American Catholic Church in the twentieth century, the novel chronicles the life of Michael Maguire--athlete, scholar, survivor of a Chinese POW camp, ordained priest--a man whose enormous capacity for love brings painful, unexpected results

Prince of Peace

Only a few men know of the presence in the United States of an IRA assassin, code-named Juneau, who has promised to kill the British ambassador and whose true identity remains a complete and frightening mystery

Madonna Red British Edition

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan. Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked when he sees a friend from his seminary days at the altar of his humble parish in upper Manhattan—a friend who was forced to leave under scandalous circumstances. Compelled to reconsider the past, Father Kavanagh wanders into the medieval haven of the Cloisters and stumbles into a conversation with a lovely and intriguing docent, Rachel Vedette. Having survived the Holocaust and escaped to America, Rachel remains obsessed with her late father’s greatest scholarly achievement: a study demonstrating the relationship between the famously discredited monk Peter Abelard and Jewish scholars. Feeling an odd connection with Father Kavanagh, Rachel shares with him the work that cost her father his life. At the center of these interrelated stories is the classic romance between the great philosopher Abelard and his intellectual equal, Héloïse. For Rachel, Abelard is the key to understanding her people’s place in history. And for Father Kavanagh, the controversial theologian may be a doorway to understanding the life he himself might have had outside the Church.

The Cloister: A Novel

Literary

Nan A. Talese

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Family Trade

Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

Christ Actually: Reimagining Faith in the Modern Age

Madonna red

Mortal Friends: A Novel

Fault Lines

Family Trade

Prince of Peace

Madonna Red British Edition

The Cloister: A Novel