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Angelology:
ANGELOLOGY, by Danielle Trussoni. Viking (www.penguin.com), 2010, 452 pp., $27.95. ISBN 978-0-670-02147-5
Sister Evangeline of St. Rose Convent in the Hudson River Valley in Milton, New York, is the convent librarian, entrusted to protect valuable archives. She is quite used to turning away requests from strangers and outsiders who want to visit and inspect the archives to learn more about the convent’s history. Sister Evangeline simply tells them no.
Until one day she receives a letter from a Mr. V.A. Verlaine, who wants to research whether the former abbess of the convent, Mother Innocenta, had any correspondence with Mrs. Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller, matriarch of the extraordinarily wealthy Rockefeller family. Sister Evangeline is intrigued and gives in (partially) to the request after finding a letter that proves just the case – in fact, there were many such incidences of Rockefeller’s direct contact with the convent.
Meanwhile, forces are at work to find the last of the living, breathing angels, and rid the world of them – at any cost. |
Sister Evangeline eventually learns she must protect a lyre, a musical instrument, to either help humanity or destroy it. The lyre is protected by Abigail Rockefeller and secretly stored away by the convent – kept out of reach of those who want to use the musical instrument for nefarious and destructive purposes.
But what of Sister Evangeline – what will be her ultimate fate?
ANGELOLOGY doesn’t have the seat-of-suspense, melodramatic reach of a Robert Langdon, re: Dan Brown’s ANGELS AND DEMONS, but fits in with more alternate history: what of angels? Would the wealthiest and most powerful be caught up in the lore?
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WINGS OF FIRE, ed. by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon. Night Shade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com), 2010, 499 pp., $15.95. ISBN 978-1-59780-187-4
Of all these classic tales in the WINGS OF FIRE anthology, it was certainly a lot of fun to read “The Dragon on the Bookshelf” by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg. Also, it was a pleasure to look over and read again many of these classic tales, collected as a treasury of the best dragon fiction of our era.
THE ARK, by Boyd Morrison. Touchstone/Fireside/Simon and Schuster (www.simonandschuster.com), 2010, 420 pp., $24.99. ISBN 978-1-4391-8179-9
An archeologist’s father may have found Noah’s Ark, but is missing, with the only clue about his whereabouts coming from a man who dies at Los Angeles Airport – and the quest to find the truth begins.
NEVERLAND by Douglas Clegg. Vanguard Press (www.vanguardpressbooks.com), 2010, 288 pp., $15.95. ISBN 1-59315-541-4. A woodland shack on an island off the southern U.S. coast becomes a forbidden place, a key to an age-old mystery. Kids, of course, find it and are caught up in its mysterious past.
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INTO THE WORLD OF MIGHT BE, by W.A. Harbinson. BookSurge Publishing (www.booksurge.com), 2002, 2008, 167 pp., $13.99. ISBN 1-4196-7639-3
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. Spiegel & Grau (www.spiegelandgrau.com), 2010, 298 pp., $25.00. ISBN 978-0-385-52338-7
RECOVERING APOLLO 8 and Other Stories, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Golden Gryphon (www.goldengryphon.com), 2010, 316 pp., $24.95. ISBN 1-930846-62-2
THE GREAT LIFE MAKEOVER, by Daniel A. Monti, MD & Anthony J. Bazzan, MD. HarperCollins Publishers (www.harpercollins.com), 2008, 248 pp., $24.99. ISBN 978-0-06-143540-9
THE DERVISH HOUSE, by Ian McDonald. Prometheus Books (www.pyrsf.com), 2010, 359 pp., $16.00. ISBN 978-1-61614-204-9
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