'Junípero Serra,' by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

The beauty of Snape’s character is that he does not allow other characters’ doubts to dictate who he is.

Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s

Billy Graham sought to make the entire population of America his congregation.

From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.

Robert Bartlett’s book will also be welcome to those who have experienced something of the power of the cult of the saints in their own time and place.