Kendrick, Stephen
Summary: The murder of a priest in a London church that is hosting a secret meeting of religious leaders leads to the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSummary: In the 1930s, a cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach in post-revolution Mexico: a cleric who risks his life by continuing to conduct the Catholic Mass in secret after the totalitarian government has outlawed the Catholic Church. In order to confer the Christian sacraments, the priest must have wine but his attempts to obtain wine will call attention to his clandestine activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWTremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. An Anglo-Saxon delegation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules that have been handed down from Rome. The Abbot of Imleach leads the Irish delegation, which is hostile to the new rules from outsiders. Among the Anglo-Saxon group is Brother Eadulf's own younger brother Egric, whom Eadulf hasn't seen for many years. When the debate quickly becomes acrimonious, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRETremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. It is the beginning of the summer season and the Kingdom of Muman is preparing to celebrate the Great Fair of Cashel. It is an extravagant nine days of contests, food, and endless entertainment. Circumstances have led Fidelma and Eadulf far and wide across the kingdom, and they have been absent from the Great Fair for many years. But, for once they haven't been called away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TREYehoshua, Abraham B.
Summary: "Rachele Luzzato is twelve years old when she learns her father is gravely ill. While her family plans for her upcoming Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele finds herself cast as the Madonna in her school's Christmas play. Caught between spiritual poles, struggling to cope with her father's mortality, Rachele feels as if the threads of her everyday life are unravelling. A diverse circle of adults are there to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YEHCollins, Olive
Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLMcKinty, Adrian.
Summary: In a 1981 Northern Ireland rife with sectarian violence, Catholic detective Sean Duffy investigates a serial killer who is targeting gay men--a series of murders that may have political implications as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKWhelan, Gloria
Summary: It is perilous to be a Catholic in the Ireland of 1735, and almost more than can be borne for fifteen-year-old Padraic Fitzbrian. Nearly 100 years before, Lord Protector Cromwell of England had put down the Irish rebellion—confiscating lands, killing priests, outlawing the Mass and prohibiting education of any kind for Irish Catholics. Padraic and his two friends, Liam and Rose, are in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethleham Books 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYSummary: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BENPérez-Reverte, Arturo.
Summary: A hacker breaks into the pope's computer, asking him to save from demolition a 17th century church in Seville. The Vatican dispatches handsome Father Lorenzo Quart who quickly attracts the attention of an aristocratic beauty embroiled in the affair. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERBlack, Benjamin
Summary: It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BLACoel, Margaret
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M COEFrazer, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREGreene, Graham
Summary: An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMcInerny, Ralph M.
Summary: With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilary's are dangeriously close to the bone. Father dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who don't want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MCIPatterson, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PATSiegel, Sheldon (Sheldon M.)
Summary: When the lawyer for the plaintiff in a scandalous sexual harassment suit against the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese turns up dead, the possible victim of murder, ex-priest Mike Daley and his ex-wife and law partner, Rosie, set out to defend the prime suspect, Father Ramon Aguirre, but they soon discover that they have a nearly impossible task ahead of them. 35,000 first printing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIEThurlo, Aimée.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUWalker, David J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWaugh, Evelyn
Summary: Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEDBerry, Steve
Summary: "Fatima, Portugal, 1917. The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005