Book Synopsis: THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN by Morris L. West
Kiril I, the first non-Italian Pope for four and a half centuries, was a Russian. For many years he had been a prisoner of the Soviet dictator, Kamenev. Now, with world peace in the balance, Kamenev needed the kind of help that only the Pope could give. Morris West's daring, extraordinarily topical novel takes is into the inner councils of the Vatican, and into the hearts of the ordinary men and women whom Kiril serves as pastor.
THE MOONFLOWER VINE by Jetta Carleton
When one of their daughters fell in love with the hired man, and another met with a tragic accident, it seemed to Matthew and Callie Soames like a miscarriage of divine justice. hadn't they always taught their four girls to fear God and obey their parents?
But children are human, even one's own; and besides, Matthew's and Callie's lives had not been entirely blameless. Set in the green farmlands of Missouri, this delightful story of a family is told with perceptive humor and a deep compassion.
THE ARTIST by Jan De Hartog
"An affair of hearts" the reporter called it. For the runaway dog from the Pasteur Institute had had a second heart experimentally implanted. And the heart of Joost Jansen, the old Dutch painter and harbor pilot, turned out to be bigger than he suspected when the dog walked onto his houseboat. A winning story of a man in search of himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Wellborn, talented and "vividly good-looking," Florence Nightingale seemed assured of brilliant success in London society. She chose instead the filthy, plague-infested hospitals of the Crimea, where hundreds of brave British soldiers lay dying for want of elementary care. A revival of the universally acclaimed biography of "The Lady with the Lamp," whose efforts were responsible for making nursing a respected profession.
THE WILD GRAPES by Barbara Jefferis
The five elder Russels were like bricks in a wall separating Mary Page from the man she loved. It was not just that Mary's fiance, Charles, was their adored younger brother. Their conspiracy of silence hinted at something deeper -- a guilty secret. What the secret was, and how Mary dealt with this formidable family provide the ingredients of a compelling original title.
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