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Janet Greeson

Janet Greeson (born 1952) is a children's book author and Library Media Specialist at Westwood School in Springdale, Arkansas.

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Bedtime? Story time! Gloria Repp’s earliest memories center on the stories her father told at bedtime. “What kind of story would you like tonight?” he’d ask, taking her onto his lap.

She always had an answer, different every time: “About a princess. And a lion. And maybe a horse—a brave, kind horse.”

After she learned to read, Gloria found stories on her own, but the ones she told herself seemed the most satisfying. Her mother died, her father remarried, she was sent away to school, and on many nights she treated herself to another imaginary adventure.

She became an omnivorous reader as the years passed, and finally she recognized what she’d always wanted to do: write down her stories for children to read.

She studied the craft of writing juv

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Megan Hoyt

Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home, and Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk. Her award-winning picture book biography, BARTALI'S BICYCLE, with Harper Collins Children's Books' new imprint, Quill Tree Books, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL, KATI'S TINY MESSENGERS, AND A GRAND IDEA followed, also with Quill Tree Books. TZIMMES FOR TZIPPORAH, her first Jewish-themed picture book came out in 2023 with Apples and Honey Press. Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019). Her first picture book, HILDEGARD'S GIFT, came out in 2

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Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois, in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. He went on to teach theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and served as a parish priest before he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He held this position until 1966 when he was made bishop of the Diocese of Rochester in New York. He resigned as bishop of Rochester in 1969 as his 75th birthday approached and was made archbishop of the titular see of

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a beloved British author, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, best known for his enchanting and often darkly humorous children's books that have captivated generations of readers around the world. Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl led a life marked by adventure, tragedy, creativity, and enduring literary success. His vivid imagination and distinctive storytelling style have made him one of the most celebrated children's authors in modern literature.
Before becoming a writer, Dahl lived a life filled with excitement and hardship. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, surviving a near-fatal crash in the Libyan desert. His wartime experiences and travels deeply influenced his story

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ingalls wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family. She also wrote a regular newspaper column and kept a diary as an adult moving from South Dakota to Missouri, the latter of which has been published as a book.

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Julia Navarro

Julia Navarro Fernández lleva más de treinta años dedicada al periodismo trabajando en los principales medios de comunicación de este país, tanto en prensa escrita como en radio y televisión.

Después de publicar varios libros de actualidad política como Nosotros, la transición; Entre Felipe y Aznar; La izquierda que viene, y Señora presidenta, se atrevió con la novela y consiguió un éxito sin precedentes en España. Su primer título, La Hermandad de la Sábana Santa, se situó durante semanas en los primeros puestos de las listas de ventas tanto en España como en el extranjero. La Biblia de barro y La sangre de los inocentes, sus siguientes novelas, también ambientadas en la Edad Media, afianzaron su prestigio entre la crítica y el público, sum

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Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra (पंकज मिश्रा) is a noted Indian essayist and novelist.

In 1992, Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, and the newspaper The Pioneer. His first book, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), was a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the context of globalization. His novel The Romantics (2000), an ironic tale of people longing for fulfillment in cultures other than their own, was published in 11 European languages and won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction. His book An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004) mixes memoir, hi

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Matthew Kelly

Matthew Kelly is a best-selling author, speaker, thought leader, entrepreneur, consultant, spiritual leader, and innovator.

He has dedicated his life to helping people and organizations become the-best-version-of-themselves. Born in Sydney, Australia, he began speaking and writing in his late teens while he was attending business school. Since that time, 5 million people have attended his seminars and presentations in more than 50 countries.

Today, Kelly is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, and business consultant. His books have been published in more than 30 languages, have appeared on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists, and have sold more than 50 million copies.

In his early-twenties he devel

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Jeff Cavins

After twelve years as a Protestant pastor, Jeff returned to the Catholic Church under the guidance of Bishop Paul Dudley. His conversion story, one of the best known and inspiring stories of its kind, is chronicled in the best-selling book, My Life on the Rock.

Over the past several decades, Jeff has dedicated his life to developing The Great Adventure: A Journey through the Bible, a practical, interactive program that helps people read the “big picture” of God’s plan in Sacred Scripture and understand its meaning for their lives. The Great Adventure presents the entire sweep of the Bible in a way that is easy to understand and genuinely fun. Its unique Bible Timeline learning system has revolutionized Catholic Bible Study for hundreds of th

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Santiago Martín

Es licenciado en Biología, Teología Moral y Periodismo. Se ordenó sacerdote en 1979, siendo miembro de la tercera orden regular de San Francisco (Terciarios). Dejó la orden en 1988 ante la necesidad de fundar los Franciscanos de María. Su amistad con el cardenal Suquía, entonces arzobispo de Madrid (bajo cuyo amparo había tomado la decisión de abandonar la orden), que lo acogió entre su clero, y el sacerdote-periodista, José Luis Martín Descalzo, que lo llevó de ayudante al ABC y a Televisión Española supuso el inicio de una nueva etapa. Trabajó durante 14 años al frente de la sección de Religión del diario «ABC» de Madrid. Sin embargo, su popularidad llegó con un programa en Televisión Española, «Testimonio». Escribe en el diario La Razón

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Thérèse of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse de Lisieux or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Carmelite nun. She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus". She was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church May 17, 1925.

She felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the enclosed Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices, such as sacristan and novice mistress, and having spent the last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. The impact of her posthumous publications, incl

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Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.

Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate

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Michael D. O'Brien

Michael D. O'Brien is a Roman Catholic author, artist, and frequent essayist and lecturer on faith and culture, living in Combermere, Ontario, Canada.

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Donald H. Calloway

Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, a convert to Catholicism, is a member of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Before his conversion to Catholicism, he was a high school dropout who had been kicked out of a foreign country, institutionalized twice, and thrown in jail multiple times. After his radical conversion he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, M.Div. and S.T.B. degrees from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and an S.T.L. in Mariology from the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio.

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Jacques Philippe

Jacques Philippe was born into a Christian family on March 12, 1947 in Lorraine, France. After studying mathematics in college, he spent several years teaching and doing scientific research. In 1976, he met the then recently-founded Community of the Beatitudes and answered the Lord’s call to follow Him through this vocation (see below for more information on the Community of the Beatitudes). He then spent several years in Jerusalem and Nazareth immersing himself in the study of Hebrew and the Jewish roots of Christianity. In 1981, he traveled to Rome to study theology and canon law and also began his work as a spiritual director, working in the formation of priests and seminarians of the Community. In 1994, he returned to France, where he a

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H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Isl

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity. The Catholic Church is among the oldest institutions in the world and has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation. It teaches that it is the church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles and that the Pope is the successor to Saint Peter. Catholic doctrine maintains that the Church is infallible when it dogmatically teaches a doctrine of faith or morals. Catholic worship is centred on the Eucharist in which the Church teaches bread and wine are

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Eloy Moreno

Eloy Moreno Olaria es un escritor español que se ha dado a conocer tras la publicación de su primera novela, titulada El bolígrafo de gel verde.

Eloy Moreno lives in Castellón and works in the city’s town hall. He decided to start writing after reading a book that had won an important prize and setting himself the challenge of writing something much better. When his novel was finished, he decided not to send it to a publisher. Confident in the quality of the novel, he decided to win himself a place in bookshops on his own. His success became an Internet phenomenon.

La novela fue inicialmente editada y distribuida por el propio autor, quien decidió no presentarla a ninguna editorial. Inició lo que denominó TOUR 2010 y comenzó a recorrer ciudad

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Maria Faustyna Kowalska

Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM, popularly spelled Faustina (born as Helena Kowalska), was a Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic. Her claims of receiving apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy".

Throughout her life, Faustina reported having visions of Jesus and conversations with him, of which she wrote in her diary, later published as The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul. Her biography submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints quoted some of these conversations with Jesus regarding the Divine Mercy devotion.

At the age of 20 years she joined a convent in Warsaw, Poland, w

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Chufo Lloréns

Josep Llorens, better known as Chufo Lloréns was a Spanish writer specializing in historical novels. His novel I Will Give You the Earth became a bestseller in 2008.

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Carla Montero

Me llamo Carla Montero. Nací en 1973, así que soy de la generación de la televisión en color, de Barrio Sésamo y el Un, dos, tres. Quizá de la última generación que ha jugado en la calle a polis y cacos, la goma y las chapas. La primera generación que conoció los videojuegos y empezó a alimentarse de bollería industrial -adoraba el Tigretón-. Me cuesta reconocerlo, pero soy de la generación de las hombreras, los calentadores y el pelo cardado. A nosotros ya nos decían que lo teníamos todo; entonces no sabían lo que tendrían nuestros hijos.

Soy madre de cuatro, dos niñas y dos niños. Y ama de casa. Suena horrible, lo sé, pero maruja no suena mejor. Es curioso que no exista una expresión digna para las mujeres que se dedican a su familia a tie

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Jesús Carrasco

Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz, Spain, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Out in the Open, his debut novel, was a huge bestseller in Spain, published in more than twenty-one countries, and is the winner of many international awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature 2016 and an English PEN award.

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Francisco Faus

O Pe. Francisco Faus, nascido em Barcelona em 1931, é sacerdote da prelazia do Opus Dei.
É licenciado em Direito pela Universidade de Barcelona e Doutor em Direito Canônico pela Universidade de São Tomás de Aquino de Roma. Ordenado sacerdote em 1955, reside, desde 1961, em São Paulo, onde exerce uma intensa atividade de formação cristã e atenção espiritual entre estudantes universitários e profissionais.
Também se dedica ao atendimento espiritual de sacerdotes e seminaristas.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) was the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he held ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis was the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked briefly as a chemical technologist and nightclub bouncer before beginning seminary studies. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's provincial superior of the

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Marian Rojas Estapé

Marian Rojas Estapé (Madrid, 2 de noviembre de 1983) es una médica, especialista en psiquiatría y escritora española.1

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John E. Beahn

John Edward Beahn (1910-1990) was born in Philadelphia, served in the United States Army during World War II, and became a business executive who discovered his writing gifts later in life. He contribute articles to several Catholic magazines and wrote popular biographical novels of the saints.

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Francisco Faus

O Pe. Francisco Faus, nascido em Barcelona em 1931, é sacerdote da prelazia do Opus Dei.
É licenciado em Direito pela Universidade de Barcelona e Doutor em Direito Canônico pela Universidade de São Tomás de Aquino de Roma. Ordenado sacerdote em 1955, reside, desde 1961, em São Paulo, onde exerce uma intensa atividade de formação cristã e atenção espiritual entre estudantes universitários e profissionais.
Também se dedica ao atendimento espiritual de sacerdotes e seminaristas.

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