Mary-Doria Russel

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task....

The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him....

It is September 8, 1943, and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand....

A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border....

A 40-year-old schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime....

The year is 1878. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers....

A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel. Agnes Shanklin, a 40-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance....

It is September 8, 1943, and 14-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken from Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies....

From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements - the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper-mining company in the world....