The Warning by Father Philip Bebie CP

Paperback: A great struggle between good and evil is going on. Pope Paul VI did not hesitate to call it "apocalyptic."

An event which has been prophesied almost two hundred years ago by Blessed Anne Marie Taigi and more recently by the visionaries of Garabandal, the event now known as The Warning which is a worldwide illumination of conscience, will begin a new era for mankind.

This book was meant for distribution after the Great Event which has not occurred yet, but it was decided shortly before Father Bebie's death that the message is so important, it should be available at once. At the time of the publication of this book in 1986, Father Bebie who wrote this book in 1981-82, was suffering the final stages of a terminal cancer. He died in 1986. The Warning should be read as though the Warning had just come. The book can be purchased used from Amazon (UK and USA).

Transcendental

Desert Star (Bosch and Ballard Series) by Michael Connelly

Paperback: LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch’s “white whale” - a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.

A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.

For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him but that he hasn’t been able to crack—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come work with her as a volunteer investigator in the new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him.

The two must put aside old resentments to work together again and close in on a dangerous killer.

Desert Star (2022) is the twenty-fourth instalment in the Harry Bosch series and the fifth one in the Renée Ballard series. Crime doesn't come better than Michael Connelly.

About the author: Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of thirty-eight novels and one work of non-fiction. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He is also the creator and host of the podcasts Murder Book and The Wonderland Murders and the Secret History of Hollywood. He spends his time in California and Florida. 

To find out more, visit Michael's website at www.michaelconnelly.com.au, or follow him on Facebook (MichaelConnellyBooks) or Twitter @ConnellyBooks. 

Rating: 5/5

The Catechism Of The Crisis In The Church by Fr Matthias Gaudron

Paperback: Is there a crisis in the Church today?

One would have to close one's eyes not to see that the Catholic Church is suffering a grave crisis. 

In the 1960s, at the time of the Second Vatican Council, there were hopes for a new springtime in the Church; exactly the opposite has come to pass. 

Thousands of priests have abandoned their office, and thousands of monks and religious have returned to secular life. There are very few vocations in Europe and not many in North America either; countless seminaries, convents, and religious houses have closed their doors. Many parishes lack priests, and religious congregations are obliged to abandon schools, hospitals, and homes for the aged. As Pope Paul VI lamented on 29 June 1972: "Through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God."

The Catechism of the Crisis in the Church (2010, 2021, Fourth printing) is translated from the German - Katholischer Katechismus zur kirchlichen Kriese (1997) - from the second edition as translated, revised, and edited by the Dominican Fathers of Avrillé in collaboration with Fr Matthias Gaudron. 

About the author: Father Matthias Gaudron is a German traditionalist Roman Catholic priest. He was ordained a priest of the SSPX by Bishop Tissier de Mallerais FSSPX in 1990. 

Kérizinen Messages From Jesus And Mary In Brittany

Paperback: Kérizinen Messages From Jesus And Mary In Brittany is an account of the Apparitions of Jesus and Mary from 1938 to 1965. The messages from Jesus and Mary in this book are a transcription from the handwritten notebooks of the seer Jeanne-Louise Ramonet, a poor and uneducated woman. The notes and explanations of these messages are the result of extensive conversations with Jeanne-Louise, as well as a study of archives and other documents. The apparitions lasted 27 years from 15 September 1938 to 1 October 1965. There were 71 apparitions: 15 of Jesus and Mary together, 11 of Jesus Christ alone, 43 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin alone, 1 of the Holy Family and a vision of a picture. The majority of these apparitions were accompanied by messages - there were sixty-five messages, all printed in this book.

The prophetic part of the messages is relevant to the time of the Tribulation - in the 2020s. More importantly, the teachings of Jesus are particularly rich and deep in theology. The messages of Our Lady cover a number of topics, and particularly request devotion and consecration to the Two Hearts united in the Holy Spirit. They also underline the serious consequences of forgetting God, and encourage conversion because Jesus is "the Way, the Truth, the Life". These writings are also an invitation to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist, to prayer, in particular the Rosary, and to the demand for love of neighbour. The messages should be studied.

About the seer: The visionary or seer Jeanne-Louise Ramonet at the time of the apparitions was 28 years of age and living in the old family home which was small and poor. She was born on 7 October 1910, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Her parents were farmers. There were nine children in the household and she was the fourth child. Their life was very humble and hard. During her youth, she suffered from poor health. She took on the work on the farm when her parents died and work there until her retirement in 1970. She remained faithful to the faith of her baptism. She passed away peacefully, armed with the sacraments of the Church, on Sunday 19 February 1995, at the age of 84. She rests in the cemetery of Plounévez-Lochrist, a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

Bygone

 

Sun Tzu

About Dolly And Ruby

One Second After (John Matherson Trilogy) by William R Forstchen

Paperback: One Second After (2009) is the story of a man's struggle to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war that sends our nation back to the Dark Ages. A war lost because of a terrifying weapon, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) that may already be in the hands of our enemies.

Months before the book's publication in 2009, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. It has been discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a realistic look at EMPs and their awesome ability to send catastrophic shockwaves throughout the United States, literally within seconds. 

EMPs are a weapon that The Wall Street Journal warned could shatter our nation. In the tradition of On the Beach, FailSafe and the movie Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future and our end. 

One Second After is the first instalment in the John Matherson trilogy. The other two are One Year After (2015) and The Final Day (2017) although the latest news is that this series may possibly surpass its three-book limitation as it is becomes more likely that there will be a fourth volume entitled Five Years After to be published sometime this year or the next. Watch this space!

About the author: William R Forstchen holds a PhD in History from Purdue University, with specializations in military history and the history of technology. He is currently a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College, near Asheville North Carolina. He is the author of more than forty books, including the New York Times bestselling novels Gettysburg and Pearl Harbour (coauthored with Newt Gingrich), as well as the award-winning young-adult novel We Look Like Men of War. He has also authored numerous short stories and articles about military history and military technology. His interest include Mongolian archaeology research, and he owns and flies an original World War II "recon bird." Dr Forstchen resides near Asheville, North Carolina, with his teenage daughter, Meghan, and their small pack of golden retrievers and yellow labs. 

Rating: 5/5

An Excuse For Domestic Tyranny

Whips by Cleo Watson

Hardback: Westminster in the 2020s, where the business of governing is the last thing on the agenda for anyone worth their salt. In the SW1 bubble, politics moves fast, schemes are hatched and foiled – through both accident and conspiracy – within hours, and sex and power preside.

When Bobby Cliveden decides to campaign against the closure of her local mental health unit, she scarcely thought it would take her straight to the heart of the UK’s bustling political centre. She heads to London to work for her local MP, the ambitious Simon Daly, and moves in with her two old university friends, Jess, a new lobby journalist, and Eva, a junior Downing Street adviser. The three of them quickly become wrapped up in the political circus of glamorous parties, insufferable bosses and demanding workloads – and the desire to win. Beneath the headline-grabbing battle of a male-dominated leadership contest, they discover the secret, soft-skilled machinery behind so much political change at the very highest level of government: women.

Riotous and all too believable, Whips (2023) is a timely satire on politics and Party people. Watson takes us behind the doors of Number 10 and delivers a gripping tale of modern government, filled with intrigue and scandal and written with insight and verve. Whips delivers on every promise and has been optioned for TV by Imaginarium UK. 

About the author: Cleo Watson has worked in politics and campaigning of one kind or another for over a decade. She worked on President Barack Obama's re-election in 2012, the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections and the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU Referendum. In Government, she served in 10 Downing Street as Theresa May's Political Adviser then Boris Johnson's co-Deputy Chief of Staff. She has had a front row seat - and, occasionally, one at the table - for some of the most decisive moments in British politics of the last few years. Whips is her first novel.

Rating: 3/5

Hold The Line by Tamara Lich

Hardback: The media said the Canadian truckers were Russian agents, controlled by Vladimir Putin.

Justin Trudeau called them extremists.

And the government put the country under martial law to stop them.

But what is the real story? 

For the first time, the woman at the heart of the trucker convoy speaks out.

Tamara Lich - passionate organizer; loving mother and grandmother; proud Metis and proud Albertan; and defiant political prisoner - was jailed for daring to criticize the government.

Hold The Line (2023) is Tamara Lich's story from the heart of the Freedom Convoy. The book is available to buy on Amazon (UK and USA) and on The Convoy Book.

About the author: Tamara Lich is the woman who made Justin Trudeau blink. A Saskatchewan native, Tamara Lich is a passionate advocate for the rights and freedoms of all Canadians, with a special focus on the oil and gas sector. Tamara was instrumental in organizing the 2022 truckers Freedom Convoy, a protest against vaccine mandates that garnered international attention. Tamara is a wife and grandmother who lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

The Coming Christian Persecution by Thomas D Williams

Hardback: This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. - 1 John 5:4-6

The Age of Martyrs is not a thing of the past.

Churches burned. Christians beheaded. Catholic communities driven underground. Governments forcing silence upon those who profess fidelity to the gospel. 

These experiences are not confined to those of the early Church or to the missionaries and converts in far-off pagan lands centuries ago. The persecution of Christians is happening right now — and it is closer to home than you may realize. 

Throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and even in the West, Christian communities are being targeted for their beliefs, whether through violence or public policy, and it’s a trend that continues to escalate. 

Moral theologian and news analyst Dr Thomas Williams incisively juxtaposes the still relatively unknown global Christian persecution of today with that of previous epochs, describing it in its various forms and providing insight into what it means for the Church and for society at large. He also provides valuable advice on how these outrages can be remedied and what Christians can do to prepare for what is to come. 

In 2020, according to the World Watch List published by Open Doors, 340 million Christians were facing “high levels of persecution.” Dr Williams masterfully reveals the state of affairs in countries that systematically persecute Christians, such as North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, India, China, and Pakistan. In many cases, Christians are forced to flee these countries or face economic repercussions, forced conversions to Islam, imprisonment, violence, torture, and even death. 

Dr Williams also shows how Christian persecution has been with us since the beginning during the life of Jesus, from the time of His infancy to His death on the Cross. You will learn what Jesus said in the Bible about coming persecutions, as well as about the trials and martyrdom that His apostles endured and the hardships of the early Christians, including the five virgins who are commemorated in the Roman Canon of the Holy Mass.

Dr Williams also explores why Christians are persecuted. He reveals Voltaire’s and Gibbon’s thoughts on how Christians were vilified and how attempts to rewrite history - to blame Christian persecution on Christians themselves! - originally surfaced. Moreover, you will see how modern attacks against Christians spring from six primary sources: atheism, radical Islam, Hindu nationalism, totalitarianism, academia, and Satanism. In the words of St John Paul II, “The Church has once again become a Church of martyrs.” 

The Coming Christian Persecution (2022) is essential reading for anyone committed to holding fast to the Faith in the face of an uncertain future, the book also explains:

• How Christians are globally experiencing white and red martyrdom due to their beliefs
• Why some who preach tolerance are intolerant of Christians
• Ways to avoid fatalism and resist the increased persecutions of Christians 
• How to assist, through practical and spiritual means, those who are attacked
• How examples and words of the saints can inspire you to grow in virtue and remain steadfast

About the author: A 2018 visiting research fellow for the Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame University, Dr Thomas D Williams has written widely on theology, philosophy, ethics, and spirituality, and his 15 books include Who Is My Neighbour? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights and The World As It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation. Williams teaches theology at St John’s University's Rome campus and has also done extensive media work, serving as consultant and commentator on faith, ethics, and religion for NBC, CBS, and Sky News in the UK. He was appointed by the Holy See as spokesman for the Synod of Bishops in 1997 and again in 2001. He is also the author of the children's book The First Christmas. 

The Nurse: Inside Denmark's Most Sensational Criminal Trial (True Crime) by Kristian Corfixen

Paperback: The Nurse: Inside Denmark's Most Sensational Criminal Trial (2022) is an award-winning true-crime account of a Danish nurse accused of killing her patients and an examination of the controversial evidence used against her.

In the early hours of 1 March 2015, Danish police received an alarming call from a nurse at a provincial hospital. She suspected her colleague, fellow nurse Christina Aistrup Hansen, of deliberately killing patients and she feared it had just happened again. Soon, other coworkers revealed their own concerns about Hansen. Indeed, some had been harbouring suspicions about her for years.

So why had no one come forward sooner? 

And with the alleged victims already cremated, where was the evidence? 

Could this all be a case of small-town gossip snowballing out of control? 

To this day, the nurse, Christina Aistrup Hansen, maintains her innocence.

Drawing on police and autopsy reports, medical records, private correspondence, and testimony from key witnesses as well as Hansen herself, Danish journalist, Kristian Corfixen, reconstructs the fateful night shift in which three patients died under mysterious circumstances, and the sensational trial it set in motion.

Originally published in Denmark, Corfixen’s acclaimed investigation of a disturbingly complex case raises critical concerns about the trust we put in our caretakers, and the role of indicative evidence in criminal courts.

The Nurse (2022) is translated from the Danish (Sygeplejersken - En af Danmarkhistoriens mest spektakulære drabssager) by Lindy Falk van Rooyen. The book is available to buy on Amazon (UK and USA) and has a movie tie-in which was released on Netflix on 17 April 2023 starring Fanny Louise Bernth, Josephine Park and Peter Zandersen. 

About the author: Kristian Corfixen is a Danish journalist from Odense and a graduate of the University of Southern Denmark. Since 2013, he has been employed at Politiken, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Denmark, based in Copenhagen. He is the recipient of FUJ's Communication Award and the Danish Criminal Academy's Tage la Cour diploma, which is a literary award awarded by the Danish Academy of Criminal Justice to an author or writer who has managed to document criminal matters in reality in a relevant, authoritative, quality-oriented and well-written way. He was also nominated for the Kristian Dahl's Mind Delegate twice, in 2015 and 2020. His book The Nurse (Sygeplejersken, 2019) won critical acclaim and several awards while also raising debate about the rigorous vetting of caretakers, and the role of indicative evidence in criminal courts. 

About the translator: Lindy Falk van Rooyen is a literary translator and editor with a Master's in English and Scandinavian Literature and Language from the University of Hamburg. She also has a Master's in Commercial Law (LLM) from the University of Stellenbosch. Lindy is best known for her translations of Danish works of literature, including The Last Execution, What My Body Remembers, and A Thistle Flower from the Prairie. She received the PEN/Heim Grant for her translation of Danish writer Mich Vraa’s HOPE in 2018. She lives in Hamburg, Germany.