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  • THE CITY BELOW
    JAMES CARROLL
    A New York Times Notable Book "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy."  —  New York Times Book Review In this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, acclaimed author James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and Terry Doyle, as they strive to move beyond the strictures of their workin...

    $251.00

  • JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM
    JAMES CARROLL
    A “masterful” history of the city and its holy wars past and present, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword (The Boston Globe).   How did this ancient Middle Eastern city become a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth? Jerusalem, Jerusalem journeys through centuries of conflict among Jews, Christians, and Mu...

    $251.00

  • PRACTICING CATHOLIC
    JAMES CARROLL
    A personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by a National Book Award–winning, New York Times-bestselling author. James Carroll turns to the notion of practice—both as a way to learn and a means of improvement—as a lens for this thoughtful and frank look at what it means to be Catholic. He acknowledges the slow and steady transformation...

    $229.00

  • PRINCE OF PEACE
    JAMES CARROLL
    New York Times Bestseller: A priest struggles against the Vietnam War—and his own passions—in "a classic page-turner" ( Chicago Tribune).   Vietnam was bitterly contested not only on the battlefields of Southeast Asia but on the American home front. This novel filled with "probing psychological detail" follows Michael Maguire—a Catholic priest, Korean War hero, and former POW—w...

    $249.00

  • HOUSE OF WAR
    JAMES CARROLL
    "A masterful achievement...[Carroll's] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold." —Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States "One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll's House of War." —Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald Reagan From the National Book Award–winning author ...

    $309.49

  • SECRET FATHER
    JAMES CARROLL
    From a New York Times–bestselling author, a "gripping and beautifully written" novel of love and family set against the backdrop of Cold War Berlin ( Bookpage). Berlin, 1961. Days before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a May Day rally. One of them has brought along a flight bag belo...

    $249.00

  • TOWARD A NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH
    JAMES CARROLL
    The National Book Award–winning author "seizes the moment of Catholicism's sexual-abuse crisis" to call for a Vatican III ( Publishers Weekly).   Elaborating on "A Call for Vatican III" from his New York Times–bestseller Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, James Carroll proposes a clear agenda for reform, to help committed but concerned Catholics understand the most e...

    $229.00

  • CONSTANTINE'S SWORD
    JAMES CARROLL
    The "monumental" New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history ( The Washington Post). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book In this "masterly history" ( Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's ...

    $229.00

  • AN AMERICAN REQUIEM
    JAMES CARROLL
    National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is "a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other's hearts" ( Booklist).   James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually ...

    $229.00