If you liked The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell, you might like:
Moran Prairie Library Book Club selection, May 22, 2008, 2 p.m. |
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 | Atwood, Margaret | | The Handmaid’s Tale | | A handmaid mingles memories of her life before the revolution with her rebellious activities under the new regime, where a certain class of fertile women are forced to produce babies for elite barren couples. |
|  | Blish, James | | A Case of Conscience | | As a priest he has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics, until he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason -- they are incapable of faith or belief. |
|  | Card, Orson Scott | | Ender’s Game | | Bred to be a military genius and save the Earth from an inevitable attack by the "buggers", his ability to empathize enables him to overcome them, but also brings solitude, anguish and remorse over his "victories." |
|  | Douglas, Lloyd C. | | The Robe | | The Roman tribune who is part of the council that crucifies Jesus wins his robe in a dice game, and the power of the garment changes his life, leading him on a quest for answers to his religious queries. |
|  | Eco, Umberto | | The Name of the Rose | | It is the year 1327 -- Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. |
|  | Endo, Shusaku | | Silence | | Within a generation of Francis Xavier’s 1549 landing in Japan there were 300,000 Christians -- then priests lost their favor with the governors, Christianity was banned, and those who refused to apostatize were tortured and executed. |
|  | McCullough, Colleen | | The Thorn Birds | | The story of the Cleary family, who moved to Australia in the early 1900s to work a vast sheep station, and the forbidden love between their only daughter and the handsome parish priest. |
|  | Russell, Mary Doria | | Children of God : a Novel | | In this sequel to The Sparrow, old friends new discoveries and difficult questions await Father Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a universe whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. |
|  | Russell, Mary Doria | | The Sparrow | | Humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life, and the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition -- when the lone survivor returns 40 years later, he tries to explain what went wrong... |
|  | Sienkiewicz, Henryk | | Quo Vadis | | Translated as "where are you going?" this novel tells of the love that develops between a young Christian woman and a Roman officer who, after meeting her fellow Christians, converts to her religion. |
|  | Tiptree, James, Jr. | | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | | Short stories explore the alien among us, the unreliability of perception, the turning locus of gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. |
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