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L ITERATURE INDIVIDUAL TEST: Author: Willa Cather ISBN-10: 0679728899; ISBN-13: 978-067 Synopsis: Willa Cather's //Death Comes for the// //Archbishop// follows the story of Father Jean Latour's ministry in the 19th century American Southwest. Along with Father Joseph Vaillant, Latour revives the Catholic Church in the region after nearly 300 years of neglect. He inspires his parishes, heals old rifts, builds a cathedral, and champions the causes of the native peoples. Major themes in Willa Cather's narrative include order and the reclamation and preservation of the past.
 * //Death Comes for the Archbishop//**

"From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification." --The New York Times

There is something epic-and almost mythic-about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows-gently, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

SUPER QUIZ: Author: Lawrence Yep ISBN: 9780060267384 ISBN10: 0060267380 Synopsis: Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him. But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow's help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and his own country to make his dream come true. Inspired by the account of a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909, Laurence Yep's historical novel beautifully portrays the rich traditions of the Chinese community as it made its way in a hostile new world.
 * //Dragonwings//**