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Brenda Rickman Vantrease
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New in Hardcover:
 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…
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