Florence Byham Weinberg

• Oct-2002
• / Mystery
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A grisly murder by beheading near the Jesuit mission of Guevavi in the Sonora Desert in 1761. Whodunnit? Indians? Settlers? Fr. Ignaz Pfefferkorn, S.J., although suffering from malaria, undertakes an investigation. Ignaz has survived so far thanks to...

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the Sonora Desert region of northern Mexico, is caught in the Expulsion of all Jesuits in 1767. After enduring eight years of prison and abuse, he is incarcerated in Caridad Monastery where the ab...

• Jan-2006
• / General Fiction
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Apache Lance. Franciscan Cross is an Historical Fiction novel..Three Franciscan missions leave East Texas in 1731, fleeing the French and Apaches. Their caravan, crossing between the Colorado and San Antonio Rivers, is attacked by Apache raiders. The...

• Apr-2008
• / Historical
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Seven Cities of Mud is Historical Fiction.Two radically different cultures, 16th-century Spanish and ancient Pueblo Indian, collide. Franciscan Fray Agustín leads an expedition to evangelize the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande. He persuades Poli, a...

• Dec-2008
• / Historical
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Sonora, 1761-62: Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, suffering from acute malaria, is transferred to a new mission, Guevavi in present-day Arizona. Healed by a Pima medicine man: Jevho, and his half-Pima, half-Irish nurse-assistant Patricia O'Meara, he b...

• Nov-2009
• / Historical Mystery
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Sonora, Mexico, 1766-1767. Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, is called to investigate the murder at Ures Mission of an army captain whose death is blamed on the local missionary. The pursuit involves a beautiful widow, discovery of illegitimate commerc...

• Nov-2011
• / Historical
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Father Ignaz Pfefferkorn, ex-S.J., released in January, 1778, and destitute after ten years of Spanish imprisonment, begs his way across France to his home in the Rhineland. He arrives in Unkel-on-the Rhine to find factional strife and ultimately mur...

• Oct-2013
• / Thriller
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Christians believe the spirit survives the body. The philosopher René Descartes equated mind and spirit and tried to prove them totally separable from the body. Are they? Cocky young Professor Eric Behrens curses the world and wishes he were someone...

• Aug-2015
• / Historical
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Dolet depicts the life and times of Etienne Dolet. Etienne, who told the bald truth to friend and foe alike, angered the city authorities in sixteenth-century Toulouse, fled to Lyon, and became a publisher of innovative works on language, history, an...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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Emilia Altamirano, Tejana, half Native American, half Spanish, is the daughter of a Royalist officer who fought against Mexico's independence in the Battle of the Medina River. Growing up in Bexar de San Antonio, she becomes literate, is adopted as a...