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Earth Has No Sorrow
Putnam, Jun 2001, 23.95, 272 pp. ISBN: 0399447470 Lily Connor was born and raised as a Catholic, but left the church to become an Episcopalian minister. She is a tentmaker, earning a living outside the church and has no assigned church although the diocese would like her to serve in one. Her closest friend, Anna Baneta, watched the Nazis kill her parents for harboring Jews. Anna went to an orphanage and then to Auschwitz before immigrating to Ame...
The Book of Light
Putnam, May 2003, 24.95, 215 pp. ISBN 0399150463 After graduating from Cambridge Theological Seminary, Lily Connor becomes an ordained Episcopalian priest. At present she is the interim pastor of Tate University located a few miles from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One day while counseling a student in her office, Samantha Lamb-Henderson walks in and says she want to get reacquainted with Lily. Lily feels the professor has a hidden age...
The Tentmaker
Lily Connor, the Episcopal priest who has been assigned to be Interim Rector at Saint Mary of the Garden Episcopal Church, investigates the death of the long-time rector [not the result of natural causes, as original thought], the disappearance of the son of the Junior Warden, and the attempted murder of the sexton. In The Tentmaker [ISBN 0-425-17668-1] Lily Connors, an Episcopal Priest in Boston, has to take a leave of absence from her job at the women'...