Marge Piercy is widely acknowledged as a gifted and significant poet, novelist, and essayist. Her poetry has received extensive critical praise, and her feminist novels, particularly "Woman on the Edge of Time," have been embraced as research topics by scholars in a broad range of disciplines. She has also acquired a loyal following among the feminist reading public who appreciate her woman-centered themes. Her work has been represented in more than 200 anthologies, periodicals, and scholarly journals, and she has enjoyed global popularity through works that have been translated into a...
Marge Piercy is widely acknowledged as a gifted and significant poet, novelist, and essayist. Her poetry has received extensive critical praise, an...
Patricia Doherty looked deeply into people, nature, events, and herself. She knew whether beauty was intrinsic or superficial, and understood the complexities and contraditions of human nature, which she chronicled in the Dismas Shaunnesey Mysteries and Visitations of Grace. In her poems she reflected on life: the joys, the sorrows, the humor, the irony, the goals, the frustrations, and looked to make sense of them. They surprise us, as they surprised her, with their glimpses into and beyond our world.
Patricia Doherty looked deeply into people, nature, events, and herself. She knew whether beauty was intrinsic or superficial, and understood the comp...
What was really wrong with Peter's mother-in-law? How did it feel for a crippled man to be hauled out of bed by well-meaning friends, manhandled up to the top of a house, and dropped through a hole in the roof? What led up to their healings, and what transformations occurred because of encounters with Jesus Christ? I wanted to know about the people who appear in the Gospels just long enough to be touched by him. What were their stories? To find out, I had to write them, and the result was Visitations of Grace. Jesus himself knew that people love to hear stories, and to this day that hasn't...
What was really wrong with Peter's mother-in-law? How did it feel for a crippled man to be hauled out of bed by well-meaning friends, manhandled up to...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to church ... Thwarted in her desire to live in San Francisco, an ambitious woman decides to make a splash in bucolic Santa Marta. She needs allies in fighting a planned rehab center near her posh new home, and, egged on by a status-hungry friend, finds them at St. Francis Church, pastored and loved by Father Dismas Shaunessey. The lovely newcomer quickly establishes herself in the parish, with its hallowed traditions, and begins creating havoc. She underestimates, however, the deep emotional currents in the parish. As a result of her arrogance and...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to church ... Thwarted in her desire to live in San Francisco, an ambitious woman decides to make a splas...
Father Peter Schimmel regretfully resigns a beloved pastorate to pull the bishop's chestnuts out of the fire in a troubled and resentful parish. He soon finds himself embroiled in a battle for the minds - and bodies - of the homeless teens that shelter in the town. Only after murder strikes close to home and the boy he loves like a son disappears does he comprehend the depth of the malice he is facing. Enlisting the help of his friend Father Dismas Shaunessey, he is finally able to come to terms with the forces of evil at work in seemingly peaceful Beluga Point as well as in his own heart.
Father Peter Schimmel regretfully resigns a beloved pastorate to pull the bishop's chestnuts out of the fire in a troubled and resentful parish. He so...
"The death of those people has nothing to do with me " Ellie Madsen longed to believe that, but what else could explain the attempts on her life? She was afraid, and though she knew the fear was separating her from a lost love, she was powerless to break free. It took the searing honesty of a desperately lonely teenager and the good sense of a maddeningly Irish priest to thrust her past her own emotional upheaval and into the cold light of reality. She wouldn't enjoy the fruits of the struggle, however, until she stopped trusting the one she wanted to love. If she faltered in this, she would...
"The death of those people has nothing to do with me " Ellie Madsen longed to believe that, but what else could explain the attempts on her life? She ...
