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There’s nothing like a good novel —

especially when the “good” lives up to its meaning!

Welcome! This website is the product of a fervent desire to locate and promote novels that are worthy to be called Traditional Catholic novels.  Whether young or old, you should never have to run out of good books to read.  Turn to us so that you don’t have to resort to the moral messes of many modern mass market books (try saying that ten times fast!)

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Featured Novels:

Past Suspicion
$9.95

A thrilling read for young adults 14 and up, this suspense novel by Therese Heckenkamp is about a head-strong Catholic teen, newly orphaned, on a quest to unravel the dangerous secrets of her mother’s past.

Shortly after her mother’s death, seventeen-year-old Robin Finley is forced from California to live in a boring (or so she thinks) Wisconsin town.  Here in her mother’s old home, Robin’s curiosity causes her to become ensnared in a tangled web of deceit that spans the years and threatens to destroy her future.  She encounters two mysterious young men, explores a tragic (rumored to be cursed) old mansion, discovers her mother’s old diary, and ultimately faces life-altering decisions.  Click on the above image for the back cover synopsis, or read a full review here (scroll down to find it).

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The Shadow of the Bear: A Fairy Tale Retold

This exciting novel by Regina Doman introduces timid Blanche and fearless Rose, two teen sisters living with their mother in New York City. After encountering a mysterious stranger one winter night, the girls become entangled in a dangerous plot involving stolen Catholic treasure, an abandoned church, and a dead priest. Once you read this first book, you’ll fall in love with the characters and be hooked on the entire mystery trilogy. This would make a great gift, especially for teen girls! Read our full review here (scroll down to find it).

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Our Mission

Our mission is to help promote good Traditional Catholic books, particularly novels, so that these gems of literature, whether from the past or the present, will be read and enjoyed by many, and perhaps positively influence a few lives in the process.

Browse the many choices under our Novels page, and check back often, as we will be continually adding new (and old!) recommended reads for your enjoyment. We will also be writing book reviews. We invite you to please submit your book reviews, as well.

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Traditional Catholic Prayers:

Saint Andrew Christmas Prayer

Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that
hour vouch safe, oh my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the
merits of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, and His Blessed Mother.
Amen.

It is piously believed that whoever recites the above prayer fifteen times a
day from the feast of St. Andrew (30th November) until Christmas will obtain
what is asked.

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+MICHAEL AUGUSTINE, Archbishop of New York
New York, February 6, 1897