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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
While on a grand tour Pendergast and Constance learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast takes up the search which leads them to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria.
Publisher
Alive Mind Cinema
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama.
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Russian
Description
Tells a parable about faith and salvation through the story of a monk in a small Russian Orthodox monastery on an island in Northern Russia. Although the monk behaves bizarrely and confuses his fellow monks, he is believed by visitors to the island to have the power to heal, exorcise demons, and foretell the future. The monk, however, considers himself unworthy because of a sin he committed in his youth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...
Author
Series
Jimm Juree mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Forced to relocate to rural Thailand with her eccentric family, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears that her career is over until the bodies of two hippies are discovered in a local farmer's field and a Buddhist abbot is murdered, a case that implicates a monk and a nun.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature. Includes historical note on illuminated manuscripts.
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels— bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification,...
10) Walk with me
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
With unprecedented access, the documentary takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and captures the life of a monastic community who have given up all their possessions for one common purpose, to practice the art of mindfulness. Filmed over three years, this visceral film is a meditation on a community determined to develop a deep sense of presence, not just for themselves but for all those they love....
12) Dissolution
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In medieval Ireland, Theophane's boredom with his duties as a scribe distracts the other monks, but when he is sent to the kitchens he discovers that he can make inks of many colors from plants, allowing the others to illustrate their work. Includes facts about the history of monasteries, scriptoriums, and illuminated manuscripts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bones of the Earth is Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison's much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series. After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can't shake the suspicion that he has instead witnessed a murder arranged by conspiring officials. When he learns that a Tibetan monk has been accused by the same officials of using Buddhist magic to...
15) Soul of the fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front...
16) Cadfael: Set IV
Series
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Holy thief: Cadfael unravels a mystery surrounding the disappearance of St. Winifred's holy relics -- Pilgrim of hate: Cadfael solves the mystery of a body found among the visitors at Shrewsbury on Cripples Day -- Potter's field: Cadfael solves the mystery of a skeleton thought to be the wife of a potter who left his family to answer a calling from God.
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