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Summary: Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In "The Church of Mercy," readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, this is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in the future of the Catholic Church in this urgent call to believers of all generations to work together to build a better world. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church and become one of the most popular global leaders. Now, in this extraordinary interview with journalist Thomas Leoncini, His Holiness reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023
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Summary: In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart -- mercy -- which has long been the cornerstone of his faith and is now the central teaching of his papacy. In this conversation with Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli, Francis explains --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations, open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world, now published here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing 2018
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Summary: A collection of homilies, speeches, and "messages of the day" that brings together Pope Francis's wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The leader of the Catholic Church discusses what the COVID-19 crisis revealed about the cruelty and inequality of society, what it can teach about handling upheaval, and how to make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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Summary: A collection of interviews with the newly-elected pope highlights his life, his vocation, and his views on such issues as prayer, celibacy, sex scandals in the church, and Argentina's Dirty War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, POPE RUBFrancis
Summary: In a passionate style , encyclical letter laudato si’ of the holy father Francis on care for our common home expands Catholic teaching on mankind's responsibility to care for God's creation, and protect and care for the most vulnerable, issuing a call to action for both individuals and governments to tackle the planet's ecological plight. Francis warned that the world faces "the unprecedented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Word Among us Press 2015
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Summary: "Turning the pages of the precious book that is life, Pope Francis leads us along a path made of emotions, joys, and agonies: a window on the past that will allow us to better understand our present"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B POPE FRANCIS POPPoulenc, Francis
Contents: Gloria (1959) : for soprano solo, mixed choir, and orchestra (24:40) -- Salva Regina (1941) : motet for mixed choir (4:28) -- Ave verum corpus (1952) : motet for female voices (2:20) -- Exultate Deo (1941) : motet for mixed choir (2:20) -- Litanies à la Vierge Noire : for female voices, strings, and timpani (1936) (8:25) -- Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence : for mixed choir (13:55)--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collegium 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL POUFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Contents: The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalrymple goes wrong -- The four fists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITSummary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DINBellamy, Francis.
Summary: Divides the Pledge of Allegiance into words and phrases in order to define its meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America MartinFrancis, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage Pub. 2005
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Summary: With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of theguests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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Summary: As bookie Ned Talbot counts his losses after a winning day for gamblers at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, a man comes to him, claiming to be his father. Ned, who's always been told that his parents died when he was a baby, has trouble accepting the man's claims. But when the man is stabbed in the abdomen in the racecourse's parking lot shortly thereafter, Ned rushes to his side. The man's last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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Summary: Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby--a hobby that soon brings him winner after winner under the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds. Currently both their reputations are wrapped up in a beautiful black hurdler named Energise. But just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1990
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Summary: Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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Summary: Retired investigator Sid Halley is lured back into the game exploring alleged race-fixing after the suspicious death of the chairman of the racing authority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Summary: When Miles Pussett discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future, he begins a search for answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox and Company LLC 2022
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Summary: A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies.But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body. Doctor Chris Rankin, a specialist who treated the deceased--and who struggles with mental health issues--is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017