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    <![CDATA[The Sparrow]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being &quot;human.&quot; When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like &quot;provocative&quot; and &quot;compelling&quot; will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer.  ]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mary Doria Russell]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! Not what I expected at all. I'm not normally a sci-fi kind of girl, but this was an interesting read. Not only the premise -- contact through musical presentation, picked up from a remote monitoring station in the Caribbean, by five unlikely friends, a protagonist who is an agnostic Puerto Rican priest fraught with sexual tension, and a time-bending excursion to a planet of beautiful, cannibalistic aliens -- but the way it moved me was totally unexpected. The second book in the series is better (&quot;Children of God&quot;). Warning: there are graphic scenes and copious amounts of questionable language in this book, and it is in no way a &quot;religious&quot; book, but the story IS spiritual, and it's a great read.]]></body>
    
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