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In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Ágreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher — the Lady in Blue.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780743562287
- File size: 215599 KB
- Duration: 07:29:09
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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May 7, 2007
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estiny propels an agnostic journalist to rediscover his faith in this intriguing paranormal puzzler about a mysterious bilocating “lady in blue” from bestseller Sierra (The Secret Supper
). In 1629, Sister María Jesús de Ágreda appeared more than 500 times to the Jumano Indians of New Mexico and converted them to Christianity—without ever leaving her monastery in Spain. (The Inquisition suspected her of witchcraft.) In 1991, Spanish journalist Carlos Albert interviews Giuseppe Baldi, a Benedictine priest and musicologist about his 1972 Chronovision machine reported to recapture sounds as well as images from the past. (The Vatican censured Baldi.) Albert later stumbles on Ágreda's monastery in Spain, while in Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody, a former U.S. intelligence agent working on a secret project for the Vatican, deals with unusual dreams and receives a startling stolen religious text. Sierra's heady tale about a true flying nun should entertain Christian paranormal buffs, though some readers might have welcomed more about that Chronovision time machine. -
A seventeenth-century nun converts New Mexican Indians to Christianity without ever leaving her convent in Spain. In 1972, a Benedictine priest invents a machine reputed to capture sounds and images of the past. A series of coincidences links an agnostic Spanish journalist and an American woman experiencing recurring dreams of a luminous blue lady. In addition to these elements, secret sects, top-secret military projects, a four-hundred-year-old church conspiracy, and a possible murder keep Boyd Gaines juggling the real with the surreal. Gaines treats faith-based explanations as evenhandedly as suggestions of the paranormal, always staying in touch with the characters' truths. His reading of Javier Sierra's (THE SECRET SUPPER) intriguing new work is magical enough to keep minds reeling. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
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