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Publisher
Super Estrella Films
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of mistaken identity, murder, boxing and a monastery. Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos for a prestigious store. He just has to wander around in the streets, wearing the tuxedo and a big ad, put on his back. The tuxedo allows him to access to exclusive places, where he meets important and rich people. During his free time, Cantinflas is the manager of an amateur boxer (Wolf Rubinskis), assists an attractive nurse (Martha Valdés) and occasionally...
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 923
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, a young woman travels to a monastery, desperate to reclaim the love of her friend who recently became a novice nun, but her attempts put her at odds with the monastery's priest and precipitate a tragic event.
7) Anathem
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Formats
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
Formats
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.
9) 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
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
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
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...
16) The island
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Somewhere in Northern Russia, in a small Russian Orthodox monastery, lives a very unusual man. His fellow monks are confused by his bizarre conduct. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. However, he considers himself unworthy because of a sin he committed in his youth. A parable about faith and salvation, The Island combines the realities of everyday Russian life with monastic...
17) Zen for nothing
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery over three seasons.
18) Cadfael: Set 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 228 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twelfth century Shrewsbury comes dramatically to life in Ellis Peters' story of Brother Cadfael--a good man in an evil world.
20) Cadfael: Set 3
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (228 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A morbid taste for bones: When a young monk claims to see visions of St. Winifred, Cadfael and a party from Shrewsbury Abbey trek to Wales to excavate her holy relics and are met with much hostility.
The raven in the foregate: Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest earns the scorn of all his parishioners. After refusing to baptise the illegitimate baby of a local woman, the priest is found dead in the river.
The rose rent: A beautiful and wealthy...
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