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Hope
Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Pope Francis
Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks


Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. It is a thrilling and very human memoir, and, at the same time, a touching moral and spiritual testament that will fascinate readers throughout the world and will be Pope Francis’s legacy of hope for future generations.

Memorial Days is a heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

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