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  • The Choice, Jean de Sponde, Kingmaker
    Florence M Weinberg
    Amid the French Wars of Religion, Jean de Sponde (1557-1595), a law student in Geneva, completes an alchemical experiment in which he believes he has changed silver into gold--one substance into another-leading him to think the Roman Catholic Eucharist might be true. Berated by the patriarch of Calvinism, Théodore de Bèze, he flees home to Navarre. There, Protestant King Henri ...
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    13,58 €

  • The Storks of La Caridad
    Florence M Weinberg
    Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the Sonora Desert region of northern Mexico, is caught in the expulsion of all Jesuits in 1767. After enduring eight years of prison and abuse, he is incarcerated in La Caridad Monastery where the abbot recruits him to help solve two murders. In the course of his investigations, Father Ignaz finds his own life in peril. 3 ...
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  • Sonora Wind
    Florence Weinberg
    Sonora, Mexico, 1766-1767. Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, is called to investigate the murder at Ures Mission of an army captain whose death is blamed on the local missionary. The pursuit involves a beautiful widow, discovery of illegitimate commerce (gun-running) by a high Jesuit official. During the hunt, Ygnacio is captured by hostile Apaches and escapes thanks to the chief...
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  • Before the Alamo
    Florence Weinberg
    Emilia Altamirano, Tejana, half Native American, half Spanish, is the daughter of a Royalist officer who fought against Mexico’s independence in the Battle of the Medina River. Growing up in Bexar de San Antonio, she becomes literate, is adopted as a ward of José Antonio Navarro, and acts as a page in the Ayuntamiento (City Council). She serves as a nurse in the Battle of the A...
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    13,85 €

  • Sonora Moonlight
    Florence Weinberg
    Sonora Moonlight is an Historical Fiction1761: Guevavi Mission, Sonora. Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, S.J., ill with malaria, is healed by Jevho, a Pima Indian medicine man, aided by beautiful half-Pima, half-Irish Patricia O’Meara. A grisly murder is blamed on 'Indians.' Fr. Ygnacio tracks the murderer placing his life in jeopardy. Patricia, who loves both the priest and Jevho, ...
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    20,77 €

  • Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross
    Florence Weinberg
    Apache Lance. Franciscan Cross is an Historical Fiction novel..Three Franciscan missions leave East Texas in 1731, fleeing the French and Apaches. Their caravan, crossing between the Colorado and San Antonio Rivers, is attacked by Apache raiders. The chief is killed and his warrior daughter, Ahuila, vows vengeance.She infiltrates the caravan and chooses to sacrifice young Fray ...
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    22,60 €