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    <body><![CDATA[About the only female pope back in the 9th century. The Catholic Church today treats Pope Joan as legend created by the Protestants, but with over 500 documents to prove she did exist, it is but another bureaucratic cover-up.<br/>A woman from Frankish lands with Saxon and English heritage in the 9t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18378031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Indonesian version. Once I saw it in the bookstore , I grabbed and put the book into my shopping bag. And, reading it was such a thrilling experience. It is unbelievable to learn that a Pope was once in the hand of a woman, a partly-Saxon woman.<br/><br/>Partly considered as a religious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29759755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pope Joan has recently become one of my most favorite books.  To think, I bought it months ago, and it’s sat on my shelf all that time.  I guess now is the time when I needed to read the book.<br/><br/>Cross has done a superb job bringing the tale of Pope Joan to life in this riveting, epic page...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8653653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1548602">this one</a> were side by side on my shelf for the past two years.  Somehow, bugger and tougher books came and pushed them aside and they got lost behind newer acquisitions.  I have finally read them both, back to back.<br/><br/>The Durrell book is a bit quirkier and more irreverent, whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42602886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this one for our &quot;Faith Exploration&quot; book club at church--in spite of the fact that there isn't much faith in it to explore. It treats the 9th century church as nothing more than an oppressive political structure (which it certainly was); but surely Joan in her gradual rise to power w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62942906">more...</a>]]></body>
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