Novels
Novels are listed alphabetically. Visit the authors page to browse by author.
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The Fool of New York City
by Michael D. O'Brien
Set in present day Manhattan, The Fool of New York City is the tale of two souls who are considered to be “fools” and “idiots” in the eyes of most people they encounter. One is a literal giant, the other an amnesiac who believes he is the seventeenth-century Spanish painter… Read more »
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The Golden Thread
by Louis de Wohl
As in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in which he lived. Here is a skillful weaving of the story of St…. Read more »
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The Innocents and Other Stories
by Gertrud von le Fort
Newly translated into English for the first time, these four novellas from the acclaimed German writer Gertrud von le Fort are from her later works of historical fiction. Ominous and mysterious, these page-turning stories bring to life momentous chapters in from the past. The Innocents, set in Germany after the… Read more »
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The Joyful Beggar
by Louis de Wohl
In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant’s son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th… Read more »
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The Last Crusader
by Louis de Wohl
Don Juan of Austria, one of history’s most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant’s hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as… Read more »
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The Last Ugly Person
by Roger Thomas
What would happen if … a society ever actually succeeded in eliminating its undesirable members? … a man was asked to travel through a land he did not know to bring a prisoner before a king he had never seen? The tales in The Last Ugly Person and Other Stories… Read more »
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The Leaves Are Falling
by Lucy Beckett
An octogenarian bookseller living alone in London has found a description of his father, as a young doctor in 1920s Breslau, in a story about Weimar Germany. Perhaps his own story might be worth telling? In 1945, as a sixteen-year-old boy rescued from the ruins of Europe, he arrives at… Read more »
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The Lighthouse
by Michael D. O'Brien
Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent “vigilant”, performing his duties courageously year after year, with an admirable sense of responsibility. He cherishes… Read more »
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The Living Wood
by Louis de Wohl
The renowned novelist De Wohl, with his usual crisp language and descriptive narrative, as well as irony and humor, presents the colorful and tumultuous times of the early Christian era in this story of intrigue, romance and power politics revolving around Helena, the devoted and saintly mother of Constantine, the… Read more »
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The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
With Annotations by Martin Gardner This edition of Chesterton’s masterpiece and most famous novel, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton’s profound allegory. Martin Gardner sees the novel’s anarchists as symbols of… Read more »