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Summary: Dame Frevisse and two companions head for London to recover some lost gold from the treasury of the murdered Duke of Suffolk, but their plans are threatened by a murder that ignites dangerous anti-Semitic sentiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: Accompanying a nunnery pupil and her mother on their return home, medieval nun Dame Frevisse becomes caught up in dark family secrets, mystery, and murder when a family member dies under mysterious circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: In fifteenth-century England, Dame Frevisse reluctantly leaves the sanctuary of her nunnery for the intrigues, high politics, and treachery of the royal court as she becomes embroiled in a plot that could threaten the throne of England itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRATremayne, 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 TRETremayne, 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 TREO'Marie, Carol Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMASteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESteel, Danielle.
Summary: A compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel's beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata's enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STETremayne, Peter.
Summary: When her brother the king barely survives an assassination attempt, Fidelma, her companion Eadulf, and bodyguard Gormán journey into dangerous enemy territory to discover who is behind the plot and why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREAckroyd, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: A novel of faith and self-discovery follows three women--all of whom join an order of nuns, and then leave--as they each embark on extraordinary journeys to discover their true place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Almost forty years after entering the convent, three nuns decide to leave the sisterhood for the exciting and confusing world outside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Ireland, AD 671. King Colgu of Cashel is shocked to learn that his loyal Chief Bishop and advisor has been murdered in the old enemy fortress of the Ui Fidgente. When word reaches Cashel that the culprit will be executed under new law, a larger conflict looms. Dispatched to investigate, Fidelma and her companion Eadulf discover that the man facing punishment is Gorman--commander of the King's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRETremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess Gelgeis, has disappeared,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2020
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Summary: "Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREGodwin, Gail.
Summary: Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Godwin 2009Frazer, Margaret.
Summary: As the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory prepare for the welcome end of Lent, their peaceful expectations are overset by the sudden return of long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she fled from the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and she has come back, bringing her illegitimate son with her. She claims she is penitent, that she wants only to redeem her sin and find safe haven for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAThurlo, 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 THUThurlo, Aimée.
Summary: Renowned and reviled for her crime-solving prowess, Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope Monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico, finds her skills tested by a case in which her friend and ally, Sheriff Tom Green, is accused in the brutal murder of a political rival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUBlagden, Scott.
Summary: Irreverent, foul-mouthed, seventeen-year-old Cricket Cherpin, living under the watchful eye of Mother Mary at a Catholic boys' home in Maine, has such bleak prospects he is considering suicide when Wynona Bidaban steps into his world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020