Mary Doria Russell
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
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Doc
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A Thread of Grace
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Epitaph
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Dreamers of the Day
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The Women of the Copper Country
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Yes, I spend time in Calumet, walking the streets, studying the buildings that date to the era of the story, touring mines, asking questions and loading up on research material from the local museum's bookstore.
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Try the other books, too! If you liked that scene, there's one in DOC that I promise will lay you out...
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Elaine, I don't know yet about an audio edition. I'm new to Simon and Schuster. And don't even know if to they have an audio division. All the other n
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Thank you, Edward. May you be inscribed for another year in the book of life.
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Nope. It started out as God's Best Beloved. Awful...
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"A marvelous, epic, bittersweet novel. Mary Doria Russell uses a setting I know very little about and didn't think I'd care for (Arizona in the 1880s) as the backdrop for an absolutely fascinating story about history, friendship, politics, and difficu"
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"Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
5 Stars and a heart Let me start by saying that I resisted with every ounce of my being reading Doc. While you all know I adore history, I’ve never been a fan of this particular era. Russell’s description of this era as on" Read more of this review » |
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“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”
― The Sparrow
― The Sparrow
“There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists."
So God just leaves?"
No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."
But the sparrow still falls.”
― The Sparrow
So God just leaves?"
No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."
But the sparrow still falls.”
― The Sparrow
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