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Brenda Rickman Vantrease

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THE MERCY SELLER
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10: 0312331932
ISBN-13: 978-0312331931
(On Sale March 6, 2007)


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In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, English-born Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books, including forbidden translations of the Bible. Finn subscribes to the heresy that people ought to be able to read the Word of God for themselves, without having to pay a priest for the privilege, but holding that belief is becoming more and more hazardous. When the authorities start burning books and slaughtering heretics --- including the man Anna was to marry --- Finn urges her to seek sanctuary in England, but her passage abroad will be anything but easy… » Click Here

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The following 10 readers have been selected to read THE MERCY SELLER by Brenda Rickman Vantrease:

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