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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
71 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
5) Anathem
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When the local diocese offers to pay for renovations to Our Lady of Hope monastery in exchange for housing a novice nun from a different order, the contemplative order becomes the target of violent threats after the arrival of the boisterous Sister Jo.
7) Point blank
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 26
Formats
Description
"The members of the Sisterhood always stand together, and that includes aiding and protecting the men in their lives. Yoko's partner Harry Wong has received a phone call from his old schoolmate Jun Yu. Jun Yu resided at the same temple where Harry's daughter Lily was training, but they were all forced to evacuate. Jun Yu's managed to get his son out, but Lily is missing. And now Jun is trusting Harry to guard the most precious things in his life--...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 15
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
73 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
12) Cat's eyewitness
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
464 p. (large print) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The sleepy little town of Crozet, Virginiahas seen its share of mischief and mayhem, but nothing like this. While visiting the Mt. Carmel monastery, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen witnesses a statue of the Virgin Mary cry tears of blood. Legend says this fortells crises, and soon a monk is found frozen to death near the statue. Before long the monk's body disappears, another Crozet citizen dies, and a shocking revelation to an ages-old mystery surfaces....
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
245 pages
Description
Nadie inspira tanto pavor a los monjes de las Crónicas de la Aflicción como la cabra Answélica. Así que imagínense el miedo del hermano Edik cuando entra en el establo y ve a una niña acurrucada junto a la cabra diabólica. La niña no sabe de dónde viene ni si tiene familia. Únicamente recuerda su nombre: Beatryce. Pero los soldados del rey saben quién es y quieren encontrarla a cualquier precio. Luminoso cuento sobre el destino, el amor...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 689 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel...
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