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"Still reeling from the violence she encountered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in The Big Sugar, Brigid Reardon presses on to Salt Lake City to settle down in what she hopes is a safe community. Things look promising when she's hired to work at the Deseret Bookstore and offered a room in the home of her employer, Mr. Cutter, a high-ranking member of the Church of Latter-day Saints, and his five wives. But when Mr. Cutter is found apparently murdered in the...

Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. Then the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints arrive, offering succor in return for adoration. Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in feasts of terrible origin. As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness, three women see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations...

While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

"From her earliest days, Mary Magdalene has known fear and loss. Incapable of freeing herself, Mary walks in shadow --- until one day she encounters a healer, a rabbi who is radically different from the religious leaders who could do nothing to help her. One touch from Jesus and Mary is never the same. now Mary's mission in life is to serve the one who freed her. Even when her savior is arrested and sentenced to execution, she cannot abandon him as...

John the Eunuch investigates the mysterious deaths of several religious figures while working for the Justinian Emperor.

From the pages of Bardugo's Grisha trilogy comes this illustrated replica of The Lives of Saints, the Istorii Sankt'ya. Featuring tales of saints drawn from the beloved novels and beyond, it includes miracles and martyrdoms from familiar saints like Sankta Lizabeta of the Roses and Sankt Ilya in Chains, to the strange and obscure stories of Sankta Ursula, Sankta Maradi, and the Starless Saint. -- adapted from jacket

"Agnes, Cecelia, and Lucy watched as Sebastian sacrificed himself for what he believed in. Will the girls trust their destiny as saints and martyrs and perform the miracles as Sebastian instructed? Or lose faith in themselves and each other in his absence?"-- Provided by publisher.

"The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning. On his way across the wide, tall Utah territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding - and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down. But there are two sides to every story - and the ones you don't hear are the ones that can get you killed. The runaway bride has a little history of her own. Soon, the Loner touches off a storm of...