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Series
Pendergast novels volume 8
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
Author
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...
6) Sanctus
Author
Series
Sancti trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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When a man performs a dangerous, symbolic act on the mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state that towers above the city of Ruin in contemporary Turkey, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that could destroy the certainties of modern life.
Author
Series
Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"December 1389. As penance for her sexual misconduct earlier that year, Hildegard is sent by Abbot de Courcy to the powerful Whitby Abbey on a difficult quest--to obtain a holy relic, a lock of St. Hild's hair, kept secretly by the monks for over 600 years. Accompanied by two monks militant and a young priest from the Abbey of Meaux, Hildegard finds the Whitby guest house teeming with visitors intent on celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas before...
8) The key
Author
Series
Sancti trilogy volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[p2012]
Language
English
Description
Hunted. Hounded. Haunted. She is the most important person in the world. She is "The Key" Journalist Liv Adamsen has escaped from the highly secretive Citadel at the heart of the ancient city of Ruin and now lies in isolation, staring at hospital walls as blank as her memory. Despite her inability to recall her past, something strange is stirring within her. She feels possessed by a sen-sation she can't name and plagued by whispers only she can...
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