Andrew Beckett, a hot-shot lawyer, is fired from his law firm when he develops AIDS. He hires a former adversary, personal-injury lawyer Joe Miller, to sue for damages and help win back his job. This book has been made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

Philadelphia

Christopher Davis

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Books, Ltd.

First published in Britain as "Magnificent Continent." 72 pages of pictures interspersed with lots of text. 34 carefully chosen natural wonders, shown and described.

Our Magnificent Land (The Magnificent Continent)

MARINA WARNER

NICHOLAS HARMAN

John Dyson

Norman Gelb

Bryan L. Sage

Travel

Rand-McNally

When Andrew Beckett is fired from a prestigious Philadelphia law firm because he has AIDS, he convinces Joe Miller, a small-time personal injuries lawyer, to represent him against his former employers

Literature & Fiction

United States

BANTAM BOOKS

The Boys in the Bars

Knights Pr

The Conduct of Saints portrays a battleground on which power, God, sex, and the devil collide in the impoverished city of Rome during May and June of 1945. The German occupation of the Eternal City has ended, the war in Europe is over, the atomic bomb has yet to fall on Japan, and Rome is under the jurisdiction of the victors: the American, British, and French Allied Control Commission. An American Vatican prelate and lawyer, Brendan Doherty, is involved in two crusades. Abhorring capital punishment, he means to avert the execution of the Nazi collaborator Pietro Koch. Also, as devil's advocate, Doherty intends to prove the hypocrisy of Alessandro Serenelli, the man who forty years before murdered Maria Goretti. Converted by a vision, Serenelli has spent his life, in prison and out, promoting the beatification of his victim. Doherty -- memory tormented, hard drinking, both angry and compassionate, a moral street fighter for what he is sure is right -- feels guilty for having done too little to save the city's Jews from Auschwitz. He engages in his causes and quarrels with Rome's pre-dolce vita, postwar society - people both fictional and historical, like Alessandro Serenelli, Maria Goretti, Pietro Koch, Pope Pius XII, and film director Luchino Visconti - until he comes to a reckoning with himself and with the serene, unshakable saint-maker Serenelli.

The Conduct of Saints

Blackstone Audiobooks

The Conduct of Saints is a battleground on which power, God, sex, and the Devil collide in the impoverished city of Rome during May and June of 1945. The German occupation of the Eternal City has ended, the war in Europe is over, the Bomb has yet to fall on Japan, and Rome is under the jurisdiction of the victors - the American, British, and French Allied Control Commission. An American Vatican prelate and lawyer, Brendan Doherty, is involved in two crusades. With his horror of capital punishment, he means to avert the execution of the Nazi collaborator Pietro Koch. As Devil's Advocate, Doherty intends also to prove the hypocrisy of Alessandro Serenelli, the man who, forty years before, murdered the child martyr, soon to be canonized Maria Goretti. Converted by a vision, Serenelli has spent his life, in prison and out, in promotion of the beatification of his victim. Memory-tormented, hard-drinking, a moral street fighter for what he is sure is right, both angry and compassionate, Doherty feels guilt for having done too little to save the city's Jews from Auschwitz. He engages in his causes and quarrels with Rome's pre-dolce vita, postwar society - people both fictional and, like Alessandro Serenelli, Maria Goretti, Pietro Koch, Pius XII, and film director Luchino Visconti, historical - until the priest comes to a reckoning with himself and with the serene, unshakeable saint-maker Serenelli.

Dramas & Plays

Permanent Press

Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, GmbH

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