Katrina
Katrina, a beautiful young woman raised in a prosperous farming family, decides to follow her heart and marry Johan, a sailor she barely knows. Drawn by the promise of a better life, she leaves her home to...
Fiction
The Midnight Line
Jack Reacher, a former military policeman with no fixed address, finds a West Point class ring. Knowing how much it must mean to its owner (which is why he is surprised to find it displayed in a pawnshop),...
If He Had Been with Me
It is a YA BookTok phenomenon (Young Adult fiction).
It tells the story of a teenage boy and girl who were inseparable as children, until things changed. Until they changed. Now they ignore each...
Death Spins the Platter
"Ellery Queen" is a pseudonym created in 1929 by the American writers of crime fiction Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and it is also the name of their principal fictional character. Beginning...
The law and the lady
One of the wonders of marriage is knowing that both spouses, together and in harmony, commit themselves to facing whatever good and bad life may bring. In this story, however, it seems that only Valeria,...
Ceremony of Innocence
In Germany 2008, a woman journalist covers the European scene for a Catholic news organization. She lives with her boy friend but feels guilty about it. Will they marry? Suzy also falls in love with the...
Summerhills
Reading a novel in which virtue is what stands out is a relief. It is not easy to write about goodness in an appealing way, but Dorothy Emily Stevenson (1892–1973) succeeds admirably through this story...
Fatherless
Fatherless is reductionist: the novel reduces Christianity to sexual morality and the pro-life cause, however important these may be. In so doing, and in seeking to interpret, for example, the thought of St...
A Work of Art
The young Phyllida, with two different eyes, is left alone after the death of her grandfather, who protected her. She is taken in by an uncle, a man who cares only about increasing his wealth, and he tries...
The Vineyard of Black Grapes
The novel is set in Sicily in the 1920s. Casimiro Badalamenti, the protagonist, is a very ruthless young man concerned only with money and fame, to which he subordinates everything: his children’s mother,...