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FROM: [removed]@ils.unc.edu (Garad Megan Davis)
REC'D: 1/11/02, 1:11 PM

My father, somewhat shocked that I don't automatically know
the title of every book that's every been written, is looking for a
book about two Catholic priests set in southern California (or
possibly someplace else in the Southwest). He says that
it was set in the 1800s and has been published for quite
some time since he read it when he was young.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Megan Davis
[removed]@ils.unc.edu

FROM: Sarah Flowers <[removed]@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 1:22 PM

This sounds like it might be Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa
Cather. Not a children's book, though. Here's the description from
the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature (courtesy of Amazon):
Novel by Willa Cather, published in 1927. The novel is based on the
lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste L'Amy and his vicar Father Joseph
Machebeut and is considered emblematic of the author's moral and
spiritual concerns. Death Comes for the Archbishop traces the
friendship and adventures of Bishop Jean Latour and vicar Father Joseph
Vaillant as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of New Mexico.
Latour is patrician, intellectual, introverted; Vaillant, practical,
outgoing, sanguine. Friends since their childhood in France, the
clerics triumph over corrupt Spanish priests, natural adversity, and
the indifference of the Hopi and Navajo to establish their church and
build a cathedral in the wilderness. The novel, essentially a study of
character, explores Latour's inner conflicts and his relationship with
the land, which through the author's powerful description becomes an
imposing character in its own right. --


Sarah Flowers, Community Librarian
Morgan Hill Library, a Santa Clara County Library
17575 Peak Avenue/Morgan Hill, CA 95037
[removed]@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Garad Megan Davis [[removed]@ils.unc.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:04 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: possible children's book?

My father, somewhat shocked that I don't automatically know
the title of every book that's every been written, is looking for a
book about two Catholic priests set in southern California (or
possibly someplace else in the Southwest). He says that
it was set in the 1800s and has been published for quite
some time since he read it when he was young.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Megan Davis
[removed]@ils.unc.edu

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 1:33 PM

Well, this probably isn't it, but the first thing to come to my mind was Death Comes for the Archibishop by Willa Cather.

Lisa


Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

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>>> [removed]@ils.unc.edu 01/11/02 12:03PM >>>
My father, somewhat shocked that I don't automatically know
the title of every book that's every been written, is looking for a
book about two Catholic priests set in southern California (or
possibly someplace else in the Southwest). He says that
it was set in the 1800s and has been published for quite
some time since he read it when he was young.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Megan Davis
[removed]@ils.unc.edu

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 1:33 PM

Could this be Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather? Set in NM
in the mid-19th century.

Barry

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Garad Megan Davis wrote:

> My father, somewhat shocked that I don't automatically know
> the title of every book that's every been written, is looking for a
> book about two Catholic priests set in southern California (or
> possibly someplace else in the Southwest). He says that
> it was set in the 1800s and has been published for quite
> some time since he read it when he was young.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Megan Davis
> [removed]@ils.unc.edu
>
>
> ......................................................................
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> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <[removed]@prodigy.net>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 3:00 PM

Though "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is more
likely, I'll throw in this longshot just in case his
memory was a bit off -- "The Power and the Glory" by
Graham Greene. It takes place in Mexico (a little
further south, but... ) during the first half of the
1900's during the Mexican Revolution. However, there
are two priests, and though it is not a children's
book it is very short.

Linda Lundquist
Youth Services Librarian
Bartlett Public Library
800 S. Bartlett Rd.
Bartlett, IL 60103

>Subject: possible children's book?
>From: "Garad Megan Davis" <[removed]@ils.unc.edu>
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:03:55 -0500 (Eastern
Standard Time)
>
>My father, somewhat shocked that I don't
automatically know
>the title of every book that's every been written, is
looking for a
>book about two Catholic priests set in southern
California (or
>possibly someplace else in the Southwest). He says
that
>it was set in the 1800s and has been published for
quite
>some time since he read it when he was young.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>Megan Davis
[removed]@ils.unc.edu
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/12/02, 9:04 AM

>From: [removed]@ils.unc.edu (Garad Megan Davis)
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: possible children's book?
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:03:55 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>
>My father, somewhat shocked that I don't automatically know
>the title of every book that's every been written, is looking for a
>book about two Catholic priests set in southern California (or
>possibly someplace else in the Southwest). He says that
>it was set in the 1800s and has been published for quite
>some time since he read it when he was young.
>

Could it be Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop"? It's
definitely an old classic, and while not a children's book, it's suitable
for teens.

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