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Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, got us on a trip to a distant world and in to the middle of the individual spirit. A critically-acclaimed best-seller, The Sparrow was selected as you of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Entire Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the success of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Today, in Children of God, Russell more establishes himself as you of the very innovative, enjoyable and philosophically sexy writers creating today.The only person in the initial mission to our planet Rakhat to come back to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recuperate from his experience once the So-ciety of Christ calls upon him for assist in planning for another mission to Alpha Centauri.