Playing saint

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Sara Paretsky

V.I. Warshawski knows her friend Consuelo’s pregnancy is already risky—she’s sixteen and diabetic—but when the baby arrives prematurely, suddenly two lives are at stake. Despite V.I.’s efforts to provide Consuelo with proper care, both mother and daughter die in the local hospital. Suspecting malpractice, V. I. begins an investigation—and a reluctant romance with an ER doctor. But deadly complications arise when a series of vicious murders and an attack on a women’s clinic lead her to suspect a cold-blooded cover-up. And if V.I. isn’t careful, she just might have delivered her final case...

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Amanda Apthorpe

"With the death of his identical twin brother, Ross, Catholic Priest Rupert Brown loses a part of himself while gaining guardianship of his fifteen-year-old niece, Neti. Burdened with grief and questioning his faith, Rupert attempts to recreate a family home for Neti, made more difficult by the sudden return of her mother after a ten year absence. When he is invited by Athena Nevis, a neuroscientist and atheist, to take part in her research on the nature of heightened religious experiences, he questions the whispers in his wiring that drove him to his life-long vocational choice of the priesthood. Both Athena and Rupert's interest begins to extend beyond their professional relationship, bringing his spiritual crisis to an unexpected conclusion."--Page 4 of cover.

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Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor this intellectual giant of our age seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic imagination creates and recreates meaning through metaphor. Taking further his acclaimed analysis of the power of myth and symbol, Ricoeur invites us to explore the many layers of language in order to rediscover what that meaning might be. A fruitful and insightful study of how language affects how we understand the world, this book is also an indispensable work for all those seeking to retrieve some kind of meaning in uncertain times.

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Florinda Donner

An anthropologist finds herself becoming totally immersed in the primitive Indian culture of the Iticoteri tribe who have adopted her.