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The best-kept secret of the Catholic Church. A set of ancient scrolls which threaten that secret. And a journalist who has made it her life mission to discover the truth-at any cost. In Iznik, Turkey, an elderly historian finds a set of ancient church scrolls. Dating back to A.D. 325, the scrolls are the greatest discovery of all time, and possibly a threat to the best-kept secret of the Catholic Church. But before the man can study them, he's found...
64) La dama azul
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Colección Novela histórica volume 6022
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"En 1629, una expedición de padres franciscanos alcanza las inhóspitas tierras de Nuevo México. Allí se encuentran con algunas tribus indígenas que afirman haber recibido la visita de una extraña mujer, a la que ellos llaman la "Dama Azul". Una aparición de la Virgen o algo más? ... Tres siglos y medio más tarde, diversas "fuerzas" luchan por hacerse con el secreto de las apariciones.
65) The demon code
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Joe Mason volume 2
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"High in the Italian alps, cut off from the outside world, sits a chapel battered by winds and icy blizzards. The priests who guard this sacred place have sworn to protect the dangerous treasure that lies within their walls. But when Joe Mason and his team are called to the remote church, they find its ancient stones reduced to rubble, the priests murdered in cold blood and their precious cargo stolen. As Mason pursues the thieves across continents...
66) Secreto Vaticano
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Por primera vez en 600 años un sumo pontífice renuncia a su cargo en vida. Benedicto XVI asegura que su decisión fue tomada debido a su avanzada edad. La realidad es que recibió amenazas de muerte. Posteriormente, Pío del Rosario es reclutado para la misión de inteligencia más arriesgada y trascendente que se haya llevado a cabo dentro del Vaticano: descubrir quién forzó la renuncia de Benedicto XVI, y quién y por qué atentó contra la...
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"Una inteligente y maquiav̌lica campąa a nivel mundial ha puesto contra las cuerdas y est̀ a punto de enviar a las catacumbas a la Iglesia cat̤lica. Pero los enemigos de los seguidores de Jesucristo no cuentan con la intervenci̤n de fuerzas sobrenaturales que pueden cambiar por completo el desenlace. La trama de esta apasionante novela de misterio arranca con una supuesta aparici̤n de la Virgen Mar̕a en Guatemala y lleva al lector por buena...
68) Relic of time
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"Five centuries ago, a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego was visited by the Virgin Mary. As a lasting sign of her presence, Diego's cloak was marked with the image of the Holy Mother surrounded by roses--and it remains one of the most revered and priceless relics in Mexican religious culture. But now the Virgin's Cloak has been stolen. Retired CIA operative Vincent Traeger has a history with the Vatican, and is asked to recover the cloak. From the...
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"Retired CIA operative Vincent Traeger spent years working undercover in Rome. Now, he is going back to solve a mystery. The Vatican's secretary of state has been brutally murdered along with a prefect of the Vatican Library. Traeger suspects that a Cold War adversary may be involved. But there is more than deadly politics at work. The answers can only be found within the story of Our Lady of Fatima: the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary that appeared...
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La misteriosa reliquia que la restauradora de arte Marta Arbide entregó al Vaticano ha sido robada. Cuando recibe la noticia de que debe ser ella quien encabece la investigación para recuperarla, siente que la aventura y el misterio que la pusieron al límite en La luz invisible no han hecho más que comenzar. Y así es: el mismo día que Marta llega a Roma para comenzar sus pesquisas, el Papa es asesinado. Este será el arranque una frenética...
71) The pope's son
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"Raoul, a young novice monk was tasked to look after the aging priest, Edgardo Mortara, near the end of his life in a small village in Belgium. Raoul was shocked to discover that Edgardo was once a Jew who had turned his back on the Jewish religion and his parents.Edgardo was abducted by the order of Pope Pius IX in 1858. When he was only six years of age, he was dragged from the arms of his parents in the back streets of Bologna to the rose gardens...